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12/02/2015

The BU The Power of Narrative conference is always excellent, but with Gay Talese as the headliner, the 2016 lineup looks especially fantastic.

Legendary journalist and author Gay Talese will headline the 2016 Power of Narrative Conference on April 1-3 at Boston University, conference organizers announced today. The gathering of narrative storytellers, with more than 500 attendees expected from around the world, will be among the most ambit…

11/13/2015

Act3 collaborator Trent Bell (trent bell photography) was on Word of Mouth on NHPR with Virginia Prescott yesterday, talking about his Reflect Project. Great story -- worth a listen. (Scroll to the bottom of the page if you just want to listen to Trent's interview.) http://bit.ly/1O6Xi46

Last month China ended its controversial one-child policy – but is the change as radical as it’s been made out to be by officials and news outlets? Today,

10/20/2015

"“Instagram has made us realize, there isn’t one way to tell a story. There's lots of different ways and approaches." - Mike Hayes, Ben & Jerry's global digital marketing manager.

10/13/2015

Act3 collaborator Trent Bell (trent bell photography) will be speaking at TEDxAmoskeagMillyard!

Trent Bell has a master’s degree in architecture and started his professional life as an architect. After three years, still passionate about his chosen field, he realized his creative energy was b...

10/04/2015

The RFT's Best of St. Louis cover features some very cool illustration from the ever-fantastic Mike Hirshon.

“Finally done with this sucker. Go pick up this year's Best Of St. Louis. Awesome cover art and illustrations by ”

08/24/2015

"The question arises: why are the three most famous accounts of hiking three of the world’s most famous long-distance trails written by people who did not hike the whole distance?"

Answer: Because the authors were better storytellers than hikers.

The reader is never tempted to skip ahead to see if the author finished the trek or not, because that has ceased to be the point.

08/13/2015

"Storytelling highlights the fact that we all have way more in common than we are different, and I think that's super important because our identities really are the stories that we tell ourselves and tell other people." Very cool.

Secretly Y’all is committed to encouraging people to tell true stories in front of an audience, bringing people together through storytelling.

08/12/2015

Not saying Brad Fann would ever manipulate your emotions or anything, but ...

Professional colorists reveal their secretsand a neuroscientist explains why they work.

08/10/2015

Congrats to former Act3 intern Jenny Goldstick, a member of the first MFA in Visual Narrative class at the School of Visual Arts. This post includes a link to her work, and an interview with her in which she holds forth on the importance of storytelling, and the kinds of stories she likes to tell in her work. Go Jenny!

On Friday, July 24, MFA Visual Narrative held a graduation ceremony in celebration of the program’s inaugural class. Reflecting on the fiv

08/06/2015

The power of storytelling, on display at the Huffington Post:

The students who graduated with Michael Brown had only hope and promise ahead of them. And a year after Brown's tragic death, somehow they still do. Here are their stories.

07/23/2015

New work! This film tells the story of Newforma Inc., tracing its evolution from founding to today, and introduces the "new" Newforma to its existing customers and prospects.

What do you do for an encore when you've transformed an industry? If you're Newforma, you keep evolving to better serve your customers, and to continue to make the…