Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Here are the first three. See the rest and the story behind them at Twisted Sifter.
Rules by Emma Coats. Images by Dino Agnicio.

“Fantastic, joyous, thrilling and boundless variety”

“…think of books as Darwin’s finches, taking off from the mainland of ink on paper, and populating an archipelago of electronic devices.”

“What we will get is experiments, innovation and above all variety. Fantastic, joyous, thrilling and boundless variety.”

Read more at Darwin’s Library: Evolution, Not Extinction (April 2010)

Via Libraryland

Storytelling Opens Communication for People With Dementia and Alzheimer’s

“A method that opens storytelling to everyone by replacing the pressure to remember with encouragement to imagine.”

Read/Listen: Alzheimer’s Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories NPR

Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling

“iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.”