Enter the Escape Pod
If you like Science Fiction short stores, and you like being read to or love audio books then Escape Pod could be for you. Its a podcast that reads SF short stories to you. Escape Pod seems dedicated to authors - in that it pays for their work. In effect making the audio equivalent to the tradtional short story magazine.
In essence this takes the ideas of traditional publishing - but lets that material be free and easy to use for the audience. Making use of advertising and donations to fund the publication.
Great idea - and well done
A rare LARP Historic Opportunity
I’ve learned that a number of places are still open for the 10th anniversary Twilight Realms LARP event. If you never tried LARP or tried Twilight Realms out then this could be a good opportunity to see collective story telling in action. The Anniversary game promises a great story line and a plethora of fantastic characters to interact with.
On top of that the game will take place in an actual castle
New Web Site for LARP Group Twilight Realms
Although Shared Creation focuses extensively on Internet based creativity there is a certain rightness in looking at the real world too. LARP seems to bridge the both the digital and the real.
LARP is consenual group story telling - everyone agrees to a framework of behaviour and uses it to take part in the telling of a story. Its part a very modern idea, part a very ancient idea. The bridge between digital and realworld comes in the way that concepts, stories and characters are often developed online and then played out live.
Twilight Realms is a group that does this. The world is build largely online, and then enacted at events.
Very creative, very modern, and very retro.
