Thursday, March 11

Today is Thursday of Week 7. Here is a link to Week 7. I hope you will have fun getting into the storytelling spirit again this week!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in something by 6PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me, and you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I'll get through as much of the stack as I can today, and then finish up on Friday. (The projects are looking so good!)

Storytelling. It's another storytelling week this week, so there will be lots of stories today in the blog stream. You can watch the stories going up if you are curious (that's a blog stream which just shows story posts). I hope you are feeling more confident with all that, story by story. Maybe you will even want to try some totally different kind of style or approach this week! Think back to other people's stories you've read earlier this semester and some new idea might come to mind.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Some people in Myth-Folklore have been reading about Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of Chinese legend; here's a really cool depiction that Taeam included in his blog post. (This image is by Grafik at DeviantArt.)

Looking at that image, those of you in Indian Epics can see how the Monkey-King of China and Hanuman, the Monkey-God of India, are depicted in very similar ways. More about that: Hanuman and Sun Wukong: How Indian and Chinese literary images integrate.

Twitter stream. For those of you who are going to campus, I would strongly urge you to go see the new exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum: Sam Noble Museum honors late photographer in 'Places of Power' exhibit.

Something very cool and weird from the British Library: an art form called nari-kunjara, an elephant (kunjara) made of women (nari):

And more Indian art via Twitter:

Plus a very inspiring video from Smithsonian Folkways at Twitter:

"No-No Boy: A Documentary on 1975" examines @NoNoBoyMusic's creative process in making '1975.' "Part of making this record is to encourage people to investigate their own history and find themselves in the sense of community through the past." Watch here https://t.co/Ers42vcFQK

— Smithsonian Folkways (@Folkways) March 10, 2021

And a fun tweet from Indian writer Sharanya Manivannan: 

And here is some advice about writing, and about life in general: Don't give up in the middle.

Any day when you are writing is a good writing day!

This Crash Course video might give you some writing ideas, looking for heroes and their journeys: 

March 11: Douglas Adams. Today marks the birthday of Douglas Adams, the creator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (he died in 2001). Happy birthday to you, Douglas Adams, wherever in the galaxy you may be! Here is a YouTube video interview where Douglas Adams talks about his career, life, the universe, and everything:

And here is the hitchhiker's motto, Don't Panic, translated into many different languages, including Esperanto: Ne Paniku. This is good advice these days especially:

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.