Where books come to life
It all started with this tweet from storytelling maven Tim Sheppard
The power of story, brought to life. Caution: may cause heart attacks in archivists & librarians.
The link points to a YouTube video called "Going West."
Dramatic reading? Animation? Who knows. It seems to live at the center of the connection between written stories, oral stories and multimedia?
It's from the New Zealand Book Council
Like no other human activity reading opens up our imagination. It enables us to understand those around us. It allows us to project the future and reach back into the past. Reading can entertain, challenge and educate. We believe that reading can transform people's lives.
Our mission is to inspire more New Zealanders to read more; to promote reading in general, but particularly to represent and promote New Zealand writing and writers - our own artists, stories and points of view.
It's not the medium... it's the story.
Comments
That reminded me of this music video by Miguel Bosé, where a librarian finally becomes what he reads. No actual books were harmed in the making of this video, however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjXGuJDSuoQ
BTW - I did cringe at the first few frames of the animation.
Posted by: Hector Cuevas | December 6, 2009 8:00 PM
Nice one. The meme of books coming to life is a rich one.
I've just finished reading the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde. Now there's an interesting view of the relationship between the real world and "book world" (with a little time travel thrown in for fun).
Posted by: Whitney | December 6, 2009 8:20 PM