A collection of ideas, case studies and questions
Another good talk from ixda10, goes well together with Dan Hill's talk
It's easy to forget how lucky we are with all these great videos online!
[He] never tried to evade the enormous difficulties that confronted him in giving artistic expression to his ideas…The tensions of the creative process, which had him jotting dozens of plans, characters, and episodes down on paper, would suddenly be discharged with long break periods, during which he would have agonizing doubts about his ability to realize his concept. He began to write Crime and Punishment in the summer of 1865; in November he burned everything he had written and started developing his ideas anew. He revised The Idiot eight times…It is evident that during his first half year of his work on The Devils [Demons] he kept tearing up what he had written and starting all over again: he changed his plan at least ten times, drafted a huge number of variations, lost his reference files in the mountain of paper he had covered with writing, and at times was in complete despair at the complexity of the novel he had conceived. [Grossman 506]
The age old skill of prototyping
click the link for the second part. I think they already know the military potential for stories, but it'd be interesting to see if they can deliberately create anti-stories, would do well to unmarket the world a bit too
Sjors Timmer is a designer, he blogs at http://notura.com . He likes ideas. Areas of interest are technology, social networks, architecture, user experience design and the future.
