Comments on: Storyjamming: An Ancient Tradition http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/ Revitalizing Riddles, Mythic Story, Family, Village and Land. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:43:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Nothing ever ends… except when it does « Ideas.attachedBy.String(); http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24372 Nothing ever ends… except when it does « Ideas.attachedBy.String(); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:04:33 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24372 [...] At a superficial glance, The College of Mythic Cartography can seem a bit outside the scope of a blog focused on new media. Indeed, a fair amount of its subject matter can seem decisively analog. [...] […] At a superficial glance, The College of Mythic Cartography can seem a bit outside the scope of a blog focused on new media. Indeed, a fair amount of its subject matter can seem decisively analog. […]

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24341 Willem Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:50:52 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24341 Cool! :) Cool! :)

]]> By: Richard http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24311 Richard Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:46:57 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24311 Also, gaging the audiences reactions would make these bouts of talespinning into prime excersizes to hone skills and build repetoires for augmenting the more momentous storys - seeing which techniques and twists inspire delight and which result in all the kiddies staring at butterflies will clue the would be storyteller and the expert alike in on what works and what doesn't as they reach up with the pawlike extensions of their imaginations and grab strands of the mythweb embracing and gluing our world and spontaneously slam them down, showering sparks of fables on the tinder heads of awed spectators, igniting the life affirming brilliance we all hunger and thirst for. I can envision all sorts of fun with this. Yep. Excited. Also, gaging the audiences reactions would make these bouts of talespinning into prime excersizes to hone skills and build repetoires for augmenting the more momentous storys - seeing which techniques and twists inspire delight and which result in all the kiddies staring at butterflies will clue the would be storyteller and the expert alike in on what works and what doesn’t as they reach up with the pawlike extensions of their imaginations and grab strands of the mythweb embracing and gluing our world and spontaneously slam them down, showering sparks of fables on the tinder heads of awed spectators, igniting the life affirming brilliance we all hunger and thirst for.

I can envision all sorts of fun with this.
Yep. Excited.

]]> By: Richard http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24310 Richard Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:05:41 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24310 It got me. It got me excited. Yep. Add in an audience and have the characters also speaking in enigmas to the individual tangles of relationships as seen by two wise storytellers and this colloborative/contest becomes a pwerful tool for community maintenence. It got me. It got me excited. Yep.

Add in an audience and have the characters also speaking in enigmas to the individual tangles of relationships as seen by two wise storytellers and this colloborative/contest becomes a pwerful tool for community maintenence.

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24211 Willem Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:46:29 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24211 Yes, definitely! How fun to see the persistence of this kind of tradition, even where it differs in interesting ways. Yes, definitely! How fun to see the persistence of this kind of tradition, even where it differs in interesting ways.

]]> By: Vicky http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24210 Vicky Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:16:41 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24210 That kind of reminds me of the Tall Tale genre. Where people jam off of each other to come up with more and more ridiculous stories. That kind of reminds me of the Tall Tale genre. Where people jam off of each other to come up with more and more ridiculous stories.

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24208 Willem Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:22:47 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24208 Do they compete? Well, according to the book, sure, in a call-and-response kind of way; but then that resembles more the relationship of musicians jamming together, as the author mentions. Nobody can "win" or "lose". In response to a story by one mythteller, the other has to respond with something that fits, that then inspires the first mythteller too. It does occupy a strange ground; not really competitive, not totally collaborative. Do they compete? Well, according to the book, sure, in a call-and-response kind of way; but then that resembles more the relationship of musicians jamming together, as the author mentions. Nobody can “win” or “lose”. In response to a story by one mythteller, the other has to respond with something that fits, that then inspires the first mythteller too.

It does occupy a strange ground; not really competitive, not totally collaborative.

]]> By: Matthijs Holter http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24207 Matthijs Holter Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:42:03 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/10/05/storyjamming-an-ancient-tradition/#comment-24207 An interesting field, that I hadn't thought of investigating before - how different cultures have different traditions of interactive storytelling. It seems to me like flyting and other forms of compeitititive storytelling are one thing; cooperative storytelling is another - do the Haida mythtellers (in this book) compete while telling stories? An interesting field, that I hadn’t thought of investigating before - how different cultures have different traditions of interactive storytelling. It seems to me like flyting and other forms of compeitititive storytelling are one thing; cooperative storytelling is another - do the Haida mythtellers (in this book) compete while telling stories?

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