dogtraxI remember sitting on the floor, as my older brother took trumpet lessons and my dad sat, waiting, drumming out beats on his knees. When the lesson was done, the trumpet teacher and his wife, an elementary music teacher, came up to me, age 7, and asked, what instrument will you play when you are old enough? I didn't even hesitate: the saxophone. And so it was, with the trumpet teacher's wife - Mrs. Pontecorvo -- my first favorite teacher, the one who taught me how to make music. #smallstories
Tellio@dogtrax a music origin story, cool, now intermediated, intercogitated, and interpolated: https://youtu.be/gBWPjP_7K3c #smallstories @katebowles @Algot @Nomadwarmachine @sensor63 @taniasheko
Tania Sheko@taniasheko @tellio If you write one, we'll honor your writing, too. No pressure, tho. Just reciprocal thinking
@taniasheko @tellio I'd be lying if I said I knew all the rules (if there are any), other than to try to use the hashtag #smallstories I've been doing small slices of life.
Kate@dogtrax @tellio @taniasheko Here's the credited version of my thoughts on your thoughts. Interestingly I now can't remember why I gave it this title. But I'm thinking about hearing stories. So here it is. #smallstories https://mastodon.social/media/lcz5ZBjx7MpDATDvAfE
@katebowles @taniasheko @tellio Intriguing title. Is this due to the act of listening? (listening without sounds of the voice of the writer as auditory element?). I like the title and appreciate the craft of your piece.
@dogtrax @tellio @taniasheko I made one for @lauraritchie but I'm cautious about file size of all these videos. I wonder about a #smallstories remix repository. I know several here have been thinking about storycare. Me, I'm just loving this slow craft, like beading. @Tdorey @econproph @ShorterPearson
@katebowles @ShorterPearson @econproph @Tdorey @lauraritchie @taniasheko @dogtrax Perhaps the simplest repository would be a YouTube playlist? Yeah, I know, sucks, but perhaps one of several digital spaces, redundancy and all.
Tanya **moved**@tellio @dogtrax @taniasheko @lauraritchie @econproph @ShorterPearson @katebowles . Starting a YouTube channel for now so as to not lose everything might be a great start.
Working on ideas for a space for these pieces which might involve uploading to YouTube and then embedding in Wordpress. I *think* we'd be able to feed in stories written here as well. Might also serve as a "way in" to Mastodon for interested folks.
@Tdorey @katebowles @ShorterPearson @econproph @lauraritchie @taniasheko @tellio ok. I did not host a few in my YouTube because I worried about who really owns the story. Hmmm. I shared them here as native video files because it felt more intimate, small.
@dogtrax @tellio @taniasheko @lauraritchie @econproph @ShorterPearson @katebowles
Great things to consider.
I don't love the YouTube option, but also don't currently have another suggestion for larger video files.
@Tdorey @katebowles @ShorterPearson @econproph @lauraritchie @taniasheko @dogtrax Did you see the Zotero Group option: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1430691/smallstories/items Here is the RSS feed as well: https://api.zotero.org/groups/1430691/items/top?start=0&limit=25&format=atom&v=1 Just to add---I love the freedom of 500 characters. I know it is a bit arbitrary, but...spread yer wings little mastotoot.
@tellio @dogtrax @taniasheko @lauraritchie @econproph @ShorterPearson @Tdorey This came my way on Twitter. http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes/2017/06/episode-171-the-women-of-achill-island/
It's beautiful in itself, but also had me thinking about simple Wordpress options for storycare. Here is their rationale. (I'm sidling around the FB aspect for now.)
http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes/2017/03/kickstarter-resistance-through-storytelling/ #smallstories
It's beautiful in itself, but also had me thinking about simple Wordpress options for storycare. Here is their rationale. (I'm sidling around the FB aspect for now.)
http://www.theperennialplate.com/episodes/2017/03/kickstarter-resistance-through-storytelling/ #smallstories
@Tdorey @ShorterPearson @econproph @lauraritchie @taniasheko @dogtrax @tellio For me this gets close to something about this galvanising year, this sense that politics, industry, environment, capital are all breaking in their capacity to provide sustaining care. So we are starting quite surreptitiously to care for each other.
Mastodon appeared at this juncture. I don't think that's coincidence. It's a bit like the emergence of crowdfunding at a time when social care is collapsing.
@katebowles @tellio @taniasheko @lauraritchie @econproph @ShorterPearson @Tdorey "caring for each other" -- yes, and caring about each other, too. The trend of "get big" (ie, MOOCS, etc) seems to finally be reversing (get smaller, know the people you are interacting with, share stories). Can Mastodon serve this need? That's still a question
@dogtrax @Tdorey @ShorterPearson @econproph @lauraritchie @taniasheko @katebowles We can try to make it work, but that is often inelegant at best inside that particular 'machine'(Twitter, G+, FB, WordPress). I am hearing you ask whether Mastodon is one of those tools or one different in kind, one with a more humane structure that values the commons it creates? (BTW, you know you have arrived with Mastodon when you know longer misspell it. Never sure if I spelled misspell right ;)
@tellio @katebowles @taniasheko @lauraritchie @econproph @ShorterPearson @Tdorey So much returns to the art of curation (no matter the platforms of convenience or moment), and how best to add layers of context and reflection to what we curate. OK. I need to check out Zotero now? Another platform jump ...
@dogtrax @Tdorey @ShorterPearson @econproph @lauraritchie @taniasheko @tellio The question of whether mastodon can genuinely be different is interesting. To me, it does genuinely seem to be. Its smallness makes it fragile: it takes very small scale absence for it to falter, whereas we don't affect Twitter at all by not being there.
I am so appreciative of Laura who has often stated here and called us gently back. That's what makes it different for me: care for community.
I am so appreciative of Laura who has often stated here and called us gently back. That's what makes it different for me: care for community.
Laura Ritchie 🌸@katebowles @tellio @taniasheko @econproph @ShorterPearson @Tdorey @dogtrax CHUCK WE MISS YOU! I'M GOING TO HAVE TO OPEN THAT DAMN BIRD SITE TO CALL YOU BACK HERE !!!! ;) (said very tongue in cheek, but srsly, you are missed here)
Chuck Pearson@lauraritchie conferences and workshops mess up routines that aren't firmly set, that's all I can say
that, and I've been oddly deficient of words lately @dogtrax @Tdorey @econproph @taniasheko @tellio @katebowles
@ShorterPearson no worries! -just know you're missed :) -hope I didn't offend!
(You can really see how my use patterns have changed !?!?
I didn't log in to the birdsite to tweet you there yet...) @katebowles @tellio @taniasheko @econproph @Tdorey @dogtrax
@lauraritchie not even remotely offended - but I am exasperated because I haven't had much to say, no matter how much I want to
Twitter and Facebook are broadcast media. It's so much easier for me to broadcast than to speak, especially in this month where I've been bouncing from this place to that. Good bouncing. But I'm out of words.
And Mastodon has that small demand, that I speak.
@lauraritchie I don't want to fake my use of this, no matter what. Especially if that means I'm more quiet sometimes.
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie "So much easier to broadcast than to speak"
Sums up so much for me. And so glad that when you do speak Chuck it's with so much power.