Comments on: Storypoints: A locative storytelling proposal

By: James Bridle

James Bridle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:46:10 +0000

@Michael - Proboscis are great, aren’t they? I had seen Urban Tapestries and I’ve been meaning to play with Snout for a while.

@jeevs - Murmur is very cool, thank you for that. Reminds me of http://yellowarrow.net/ too.

By: jeevs sinclair

jeevs sinclair — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:14:35 +0000

this was a very fascinating idea to read about and I quite liked your sketches. you might be interested to know about Murmur, it is a project with a similar inspiration, it uses little flyers posted around a city (at each geolocation), each with a unique phone number printed on it. calling this number will read out a voice message which plays apart in the story effectively.

http://murmurtoronto.ca/

By: Michael Bhaskar

Michael Bhaskar — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:33:45 +0000

This sounds like a fantastic. I am really interested in the way this kind of application broadens the scope of what we would traditionally think of as a story. In some senses our daily lives form narratives, yet when we think of narrative we think of something self contained. “Life” and “stories” can’t be so easily separated in this model and I think that sounds extremely exciting.

For me London is the perfect city for this- Peter Ackroyd called it London’s topographical imperative, that ability to cluster myths or trades or styles in set locations. Walking around London is at some level like being part of a four dimensional narrative which could then be given a further, more structured layer to engage with.

As a side point have you seen this project from Proboscis: http://urbantapestries.net/? It might be worth talking to them…