TEDtalk Tuesday: Storytelling Part 1

Good morning!

Today's TEDtalk Tuesday is by that hipster man up there, Joe Sabia.  He's known for things like videos like "Tupac in Kazakhastan" and "A History of Lyrics that Aren't Lyrics".

He's a technological storyteller...which means that he tells a story about the evolution of stories in
under 4 minutes.


And, he uses his iPad.


So I'll keep my summary short so you can actually watch the video.

He begins with the book.

"The book was the king of storytelling. It was venerable. It was ubiquitous. But it was a little bit boring...In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device."  (about 10 secs in)

Then he shows how a man named Lothar Meggendorfer started the revolution that led to the evolution of how we tell a story.

"But the way that humans tell a story has always evolved with pure, consistent, novelty." (3:15)

And that's what I'm going to talk about in Part 2. He doesn't really address blogging as a form of storytelling, but it totally is.  And I noticed a phenomena in class the other day that completely blows my mind.  More on that in Part 2, though.


For now, just watch the video.