Foolish Sage | July 9, 2010
In the four part video series below, Ira Glass, host of public radio’s This American Life, shares his personal tips on how to create and tell a good story. Glass is a master of the art of storytelling; I’m so glad for the privilege of sitting at his feet for a bit to learn. Image [...]
Foolish Sage | June 13, 2010
My latest Lego stop motion animation video (the third one I’ve created): I think I’m getting a little better with each one. Having a taped-down base and a more stable platform for the camera means less shakes and jitters. Next thing to work on is lighting.
Foolish Sage | June 13, 2010
If you follow this blog, you know that I’m trying to develop myself as a storyteller (The Bus, the Bench, and the Chamber of Doom text version | audio version). They say if you want to be a writer you should read great writers. So I figure if I want to be a storyteller, I [...]
Foolish Sage | June 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia RE: Doc Jensen’s post “LOST: The Island’s Story?” at EW.com. Popular LOST blogger Jeff “Doc” Jensen has posted part one of a two-part epic attempt at a “theory of everything” behind the LOST TV epic. His basic theses can be summed up in these points: The island was alive, conscious, and a [...]
Foolish Sage | June 12, 2010
It seems there was many a slip ‘twixt Gilligan’s Island and LOST. Image via Wikipedia The success of Gilligan’s Island inevitably led to a slue of castaways-on-an-island imitators over the years, most of which never got beyond their pilot episodes. I actually remember seeing a couple of the ones featured in the video below. Perhaps [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
