Podcasts about Building Stories

Building skyscrapers is an incredibly complex task. From the complexities of designing foundations to considering wind forces, and working with multi-disciplinary teams in busy urban areas. Today we're joined by an engineer who worked on the design of Western Europe's tallest tower, The Shard. We delve into the unique challenges she came across and the top-down construction method that was used for maximum efficiency, along with what she learned about the importance of relationships in the engineering space. Our guest is an engineer, physicist, author and presenter with almost 15 years experience in the industry. It's a pleasure to have Roma Agrawal, MBE. THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUTThe historical significance of The Shard design Challenges of building a skyscrapers foundations Considering factors such a local disruption and wind force Collaboration and team-work across multiple disciplinesWhy we need to shout louder about engineering success GUEST DETAILSRoma Agrawal is an engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest tower. She studied at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. Roma has given lectures to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx talks. She has also presented numerous TV shows for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery, and hosts her own podcast, Building Stories.Her first book, BUILT (2018) won an AAAS science book award and has been translated into eight languages. Roma is passionate about promoting engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly those from minority groups, and has won international awards for her technical prowess and for her advocacy for the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award. She was appointed an MBE in 2018 for services to engineering.https://www.romatheengineer.com/MORE INFORMATIONLooking for ways to explore or advance a career in the field of engineering? Visit Engineers Ireland to learn more about the many programs and resources on offer. https://www.engineersireland.ie/   Engineers Journal AMPLIFIED is produced by DustPod.io for Engineers Ireland.QUOTESI really love the idea of responding to what's there. This building could only have been on this particular site. - Roma Agrawal There's lots of different systems that have to work together to make sure that a big skyscraper stays stable. - Roma Agrawal A building like The Shard, we predict might move about half a metre. What's key as a structural engineer is to make sure that we don't feel that. - Roma Agrawal As a student, I don't think I ever understood how essential the skill of being able to work with other people is to be an engineer - Roma Agrawal I think being enthusiastic about what you do is a big thing. I think we're all too modest. - Roma Agrawal KEYWORDS#construction #theshard #site #management #wind #design #collaboration #engineering

Bio  Brian McDonald, an award-winning author, filmmaker, graphic novelist, and podcaster, is a sought-after instructor and consultant. He has taught his story seminar and consulted for various companies, including Pixar, Microsoft, and Cirque du Soleil.  Interview Highlights 01:30 The Story Spine 04:00 Proposal, argument, conclusion 07:40 Video games – noodles are not cake 11:30 Armature 16:25 Stories in speeches 21:25 Finding your armature 23:00 Tools and weapons go together 25:30 The first act 27:00 Angels 28:00 Brian's memoir 28:45 Paying attention   Connect  ·       Brian McDonald (writeinvisibleink.com) ·       @BeeMacDee1950 on X ·       @beemacdee on Instagram ·       Brian McDonald on LinkedIn   Books and references  ·       Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living, Brian McDonald ·       Invisible Ink: Building Stories from the Inside Out, Brian McDonald ·       The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator, Brian McDonald ·       Old Souls, Brian McDonald ·       Ink Spots: Collected Writings on Story Structure, Filmmaking and Craftmanship, Brian McDonald ·       Brian's podcast 'You are a Storyteller'  Episode Transcript Ula Ojiaku Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I'm Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener. Welcome back to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast, this is Part 2 of my conversation with Brian McDonald. In Part 1 we discussed defining a story, why we tell stories, among other things, and in this second part, Brian shares more of his insights around the storytelling formula, Brian's upcoming memoir, and building a story's armature. It's been such an honour to speak with Brian and I hope you find Part 2 of our conversation as insightful as I have. Everyone is a storyteller, everyone has a story to tell, and we knowing how to structure it is key to making it impactful and helping people to get information that heals, that helps them survive, that helps them navigate the conflicts of this world. So, you, in your book, Invisible Ink, you gave us a storytelling formula, do you mind sharing that with us? Brian McDonald So the story spine are seven steps that you need to create a story. So they use it at Pixar, I've worked with them quite a bit so we speak similar language, but they use this too, and I think we basically learned it from the same source. So, they are once upon a time, and every day, until one day, and because of this, and because of this, until finally, and ever since that day. So they are once upon a time, and every day, until one day, and because of this, and because of this, until finally, and ever since that day. And you set up the status quo, this is what happened, this is who this person is, this is what they want, whatever it is, and then something changes. Now you're into the ‘until one day', and the second act, now that would be the first act, the second act would be the body of the story. It's really what people say the story is about, so that's the longest part. That's why it's sort of split in two in a way because of this and because of this. There are some people who will add more because of this, but I don't, and some people don't like that I'm so rigid about it, but what I find is that the hardest thing I teach people is how to simplify. That's the hardest thing. So, adding more details is easy, simplifying is hard, right, and so that's why I stick with the seven and the because of this and because of this. And then, until finally, now you're into the third act, and ever since that day, because the third act is all about the conclusion or the resolution, but the conclusion, but the way I like to think about the three acts is this, and I had been thinking about it this way, and this is something that I don't know where Hitchcock got it, but Alfred Hitchcock talked about it, but I've never heard it anywhere else. So it's proposal, argument, conclusion. That's the way stories work, and those are the three acts. Proposal, argument, conclusion. Now, it's the way people talk. That's why it works. So the proposal is, let's say, I say Saturday I went to the best party I've ever been to in my life. That's my proposal. Everybody knows what comes next. My proof, this happened, that happened, this star was there, this blah blah blah, whatever it is, whatever my argument is, that this is the best party in the world, right? And then the conclusion, often stories are circular, so you'll come back around to the beginning again. So, that's the best party I've ever been to, then I talk about it, and then I say, oh, what a great party, oh, that was the best party I've ever been to, whatever it is, it's the way we speak, that's why it works in stories, because it's natural. It's the way a legal argument is constructed. Your honour, my client is innocent. Then the trial, which is all proof, and then the conclusion as you can see, my client is innocent, that's the conclusion of that argument, but the resolution is, do they go to jail or not? And that may or may not matter to your story, depending on the story you're telling. So therapists say, well, we tell ourselves the story that I'm not good enough, we tell ourselves the story that I'm not attractive enough or whatever it is, and that's not a story, that's a conclusion that you have derived from stories, it's not a story, that's a conclusion. The conclusion is I'm not worthy, I'm not smart, whatever it is, but there are stories that made you think that or feel that, that's where the stories are, and so the problem is if you have different definitions for stories, I found this when I'm collaborating, if I'm working for a studio or a video game company or something, if we have a different definition for story, then we are miscommunicating from the very beginning of the conversation.  So they maybe will say, well, we should do this, and I say, well, that doesn't fit the story, well, I think it does, oh, well, we're not talking about the same thing. So the thing is, people can take my definition or leave it, that doesn't matter to me, but they ought to have a definition, and it ought to get results consistently, and then you can make sure everybody's on the same page. Ula Ojiaku What I'm hearing you say is it's important to take time to define the terms being used because that makes things easier when you're collaborating with people. So how do you then approach it? Brian McDonald It depends. Sometimes I come in and my job is to lecture, and that is to give them that shared definition and understanding of story. So sometimes that's my job. If I come in on a specific project to help on a specific project, that's usually because either they've heard me lecture before, or they've read my books and we already have a shared definition. So that's usually how it works, most of the time. Ula Ojiaku What would you advise when you're getting into a new collaboration with people, would you say, take the time to define the terms and what exactly generally would you say? Brian McDonald Yeah, if we're talking specifically about story, I think I would give them the definition. I would probably let them struggle with the definition of story first, because I think that's an important part of the process, because people have to know they were given something, because it sounds obvious when you say it. So we will fool ourselves and think, oh, I knew that, so the struggle is really important, so I would let them struggle, make sure they understood that they got something, oh, now I have a definition, and sometimes just having a definition elevates what you're able to do. Just having the definition. So, then I would break down story, I would break down armature, which I haven't done yet I don't believe in the concept of interactive stories, I think that's a misnomer, because once you interact with the story, it becomes a game. I don't think they can occupy the same space. Now, the word story comes from the word history, where it comes from, comes from the word history. A story has happened. So for instance, if you and I were somewhere and we had some crazy adventure, as it's happening, it is not a story. It's only a story when we're done and we tell people about it. A video game is happening in the moment, the same way as any other experience. It's an experience, but it's not a story till it's done, and you're telling people that, and so I just don't think they occupy the same space. Now they have a lot of the same ingredients, and that's what fools people. So for instance, it's sort of like, I would say you can use eggs and flour to make noodles or cake, but noodles are not cake, and so because you can have characters and settings and scenes and a lot of the same ingredients as a story, I think people think they're the same thing, but they are not, and that's what's interesting to me is that video game people desperately want their thing to be story, and I don't know why. It's like, no, you have your own thing. They have scenarios. In the old silent movie days, they didn't have screenplays, they didn't write screenplays. So, Buster Keaton would say, get me a fire truck and I'll make a movie, and he would then make it up, Chaplin did the same thing, he would make it up, they didn't write them down. Sometimes Chaplin would shoot and then say, okay, everybody has a week off while I figure out what happens next. He didn't know, so the reason they started writing screenplays, one of them was to budget. Well, what do you want? I'm going to need a truck, I'm going to need this, I'm going to need that. Okay. So they knew how much it was going to cost to make it, that's one of the reasons they started doing it. So you'll see on old silent movies scenario by, so it would be like, what if a guy robs a bank and this happens so that's the scenario. Video games have a scenario, and anything can happen in that scenario because the player has some agency, and that's like being in real life. Being in real life is not a story, it's just not, it's a story later, but I think that when we are experiencing a story, it feels like the present, and so I think it's confusing, and people will argue with me and they'll say, but have you played this video game or that video game or this one? And I'm like, you're not actually arguing. There's a little bit of story, and that stops and then there's gameplay, they don't occupy the same space, they're just close to each other. You have to switch from one to the other, I just don't believe they can occupy the same space, and I think technology has fooled us to thinking that that's the case, because you don't need technology. If there is such a thing as interactive stories, you could do that without technology. Choose your own adventure books were that, so you don't need it. Everybody remembers them, but how many people ever tell the story of a choose your own adventure book? You ever heard anybody say that? No one does, because it wasn't really a story, it was a game. There's nothing wrong with it being a game, I think that's totally fine, but I don't study games, I work with game people. There are people that study games and that's their whole thing. I get that, and there's game theory, and there's a bunch of stuff I don't know, but they seldom study story, and I do know that. So when they say, well, this game has a story, I'm telling you, it doesn't, because that's my field of study. And then an armature. So, I used to work in creature shops in Los Angeles. So I moved to LA in the mid 80s, and my roommate was a special effects makeup artist. And so my first jobs in LA were working in creature shops because he could get me these jobs, and this is before CGI and computers and stuff, so things had to be built. My roommate was working on the movie Predator when I moved there, I remember, it was called Hunter, I still have the script, it was called Hunter at the time, and so they were doing some reshoots. They had gone on location and shot the movie without having a design for the creature. So they came back and they were doing some shoots in studio and stuff with this creature, I remember that vividly. Anyway, but they had to build these things, and so I would work on these movies, I worked on a zombie movie and a movie called Night of the Creeps and all, but you had to make things, and I would watch these sculptors, amazing sculptors, sculpt these little mock cats of whatever the creature was, and they were, I'd never seen in real life, somebody really able to sculpt something that was so amazing, and I was 21 years old, it was amazing to see, and they would make though this wireframe skeleton before they sculpted the clay, and I asked why, I didn't know, and they said, well, we have to make a skeleton, an armature. In fact, the wire is called armature wire. We have to make this armature because clay can't support its own weight, and so after a little while, could be a day or two days or sometimes a few hours, it'll collapse upon itself. So you need to make this skeleton, and I thought, oh, that's really interesting. It's something I'd never thought about, and then when I thought about it in terms of story, I realised that a story has an armature. It holds everything up. Everything is built around this armature. It ends up being one of the most important parts, like with the clay, but it's not anything anybody notices, except when it is in there, it's the thing that makes it work, it's the thing that makes it stable, and the armature for a story is your point. What are you trying to say? What's the survival information you're trying to convey? So, some people would call it a theme, it's a mushy word, people don't quite know what it means. So I usually start with armature, then I use theme interchangeably, but I start with armature because it's a visual idea that people can sort of wrap their brain around, where theme is, I think, almost too intellectual. And the way I like to think of it is this, that a story doesn't have a theme. This is what you always, you hear this, stories have a theme, this story has to have a theme. Stories don't have a theme, stories are a theme, stories are a manifestation of the theme. If you are telling the story of King Midas and you're saying some things are more important than gold, then the story is a manifestation of the illustration of that theme. Ula Ojiaku So if a story is a manifestation of a theme and an armature is your point you're trying to make, so what is a theme then? Brian McDonald Well, theme and armature are the same. It's just that theme takes a long time for people to wrap their brains around, it's too intellectual. I think a lot of terms for storytelling and writing and all of that were made up by people who weren't practitioners, but observers, and so their words are often not very helpful. So it's like, well, theme's not a helpful word. I struggled with the idea of theme for a long time, even though I knew what a theme was, I was lucky because of the things that influenced me would always have a strong theme, and so I knew instinctually how to do it. It was a while before I understood what I was doing, and the word theme completely confused me because it was something I thought I had to put in my story, I had to fit it in there, but it's not that way. Ula Ojiaku So if I said a theme is the point you're trying to make, or a theme is the message you're trying to pass across would that be wrong? Brian McDonald You know, the interesting thing about having a point, is that when we talk, we have no problem with the concept, and in fact, when somebody's talking to you, and it's clear they don't have a point, you lose interest fast, you also don't know what to listen for. So one of the things that often comes up is people will talk about I think mood, for instance, is a trick of literature. So, because you can paint pretty pictures with words and you can do these things, I think that's a trick and has nothing to do with storytelling. It's almost a special thing, and so sometimes people will say, well, what about mood, because you're so into story, what about mood? I go, well, here's the thing, nobody talks in real life about mood. So if I say to you, hey Ula, I have something to tell you, a clear blue sky, seagulls in the distance, the sun beating down on me, salt air coming off the ocean. Okay, I'll see you later. You'd be like, I didn't tell you anything, but if I just add one sentence, if I say my trip to Mexico was amazing, clear blue sky, now you know why you're listening. That changes everything. Armature does the same thing. If you know why you're telling the story, it will all fall together in a different way, and people know they're in good hands, they feel it, they won't know why, but they'll understand why they're listening. Ula Ojiaku People in other disciplines have to give presentations and already is an established case that storytelling helps with engaging people, and when you know the point you're trying to pass across, it's a great starting point to know what message you're trying to pass across to the audience. What advice would you give to leaders? What can they bear in mind to about weaving in stories so that it's engaging without losing the message? Brian McDonald I've helped people write speeches and I've had to give speeches on different things that were not necessarily story related. And in fact, when I was at the creative agency I was at, we would often be asked to help people write speeches, and all the writers would follow basically the rules that I laid down about how that should happen, and we could do it really quickly and the CEOs were always amazed at how quickly we could do it, but they usually have a story, they just don't recognise it. Most people don't recognise the stories that they have to tell because they take them for granted, and so often we would pull that out of them and say, that's your thing, but I once heard an interview, this is pre-pandemic. So pre-pandemic, there were a lot of people, who were against vaccines, even then, and I heard this doctor talking on the radio and the doctor said, because people were afraid, they were like, well, wait, if my kid gets the vaccines, gets immunised, this leads to autism, that's what they thought,  and the doctors were like, all the research from all around the world does not bear that out, that's not true. So, and they kept trying to provide data that showed that this wasn't true, and I remember listening to this going, they're not going to win with data because we're not wired for data. The reason those people believe what they believe is because they have a story. I knew somebody this happened to, I heard of a person this happened to. You can only win with another story, you're not going to win with data. So the thing is, you find a story, a human story about whatever you're talking about, because there is one, and when you find it, that's what people will latch on to. We're not wired for all that other stuff, we're not wired for charts and graphs, and that's not the way it works. We're wired for stories and we want to know, hey, how is what you're telling me going to help me, that's what we want to know, and so there is a story there, there always is, they just have to find it. How does this thing connect with me? Steve Jobs was good at this, and I've worked with tech companies making pieces for them, and if they have a product, they often want to give you the stats, like it does it's this, and it does this and it does this and it has this many whatever, but do you remember there was a commercial, at least here I don't know if it was everywhere, but there was a commercial for facetime, and when it first came out, there was a commercial for it and the commercial was just people on the computers, or on their phones, connecting with other people. So there was a guy who obviously was stationed somewhere, a military guy, and he sees his wife and their new baby over the thing, somebody seeing a graduation, I think is one of them, all these things that connected people. Now you got, I've got to have, that because you're giving me emotional information. I don't know anything about technology, so you're not going to impress me with technology, you're going to impress me with how is this going to impact my life for the better. So they told you those little stories, those little vignettes, and it was a powerful commercial. So an armature should be a sentence, so it should be something you can prove or disprove through the story. It has to be a sentence. So a lot of times people go, well, revenge, that's my theme, that's my armature. It's like, it can't be. Revenge is sweet, can be. Revenge harms the avenger, could be. It can't be friendship, friendships are sometimes complicated, friendships are necessary, something like that. So companies can have armatures, they're often looking for their armature. What's interesting is that Nike's armature is if you have a body, you're an athlete, and when you have a strong armature, it tells you what to do. So, if you have a body, you're an athlete, which they sort of contextualised as ‘just do it', but the armature is, so they did an ad with an overweight kid jogging. It's just one shot of him jogging and having a very hard time doing it, but doing it, and that's better than having a star. A lot of times clients used to come to us with the agency and go, we got this star and this song. It's like, yeah, but what are you saying, because it won't matter. That was a very powerful ad, that kid just jogging and just doing it, and you were like, it was more impressive than the most impressive athlete, you had empathy for him, you had admiration. It was amazing, it's an amazing ad, and it's simple, it doesn't cost a lot of money. It doesn't have any special effects. It doesn't have any big stars. What was interesting is that Nike changed ‘just do it' for a while to ‘be like Mike', to be like Michael Jordan, be like Mike. Well, guess what? You can't be like Mike. If you have a body, you're an athlete. I can do that, but I can't be like Mike, so they went back. They had to go back, that went away. If you have a strong armature, it's amazing, what it does is sticking to your armature has a way of making your stuff resonate and be honest in a very specific way and feel polished, and so if somebody is giving a talk and they know their armature. I gave a talk, at the EG conference. I was flattered to be asked because James Cameron had spoken there, Quincy Jones had spoken there, they asked me to be there and they said, well, what do you want to talk about, and I said, well I'm a story person, I want to talk about story. They seemed bored by the whole idea of me talking about story and they said, well, what are you working on? Well, I had just started working on a memoir that's not out yet, but I had just started working on this memoir, and they go, tell us about that, and it was a memoir about my brother's murder, and they said, well we want you to tell us about that, what you're going to talk about in your memoir. So I thought, okay, I didn't want to talk about it really, but I didn't want to pass up this opportunity. It was a high profile talk, there were going to be high profile people in the audience, it was an honour to be asked to do it, so I did it. So when I prepare for a speech, or a lecture or anything, the first thing I do is I try to get into that venue as early as possible when there's no one there, and I walk on and off the stage, over and over again, because one of the things that throws you as a speaker sometimes is not knowing how to get on and off the stage. You might trip, so I just do it a bunch of times so I know how many steps. Then I sit on the stage, I just sit there, because I want it to become my living room, so I just sit there, it could be 20 minutes, just taking it all in. I ask them to turn the lights on the way the lights are going to be on during the talk, because sometimes it throws you when you're like, oh, I can't see anybody, or I can see the first two rows, I'm getting rid of all of those things. Then I go into the audience and I sit in different sections. What can these people see? What can these people see? What can these people see? I do all. So that's the way I prepare, and then I do all the tech stuff. Well, the EG conference didn't really let me do that. I got to go on stage for a couple of minutes, but I really didn't get to spend much time up there. I had my PowerPoint. So I had some slides and I had notes, and they said, okay, this is what time you're going up. I go, I've got to know if this is working, my slides and my notes and they didn't let me do it on stage, we did it backstage and I go, it's going to look like this. Fine, I get out there, the monitor on the stage is different, and I don't have my notes. I don't have my notes. I had seen people at this conference when something went wrong, they would stop their talk, they would go talk to a tech person. It took the air out of the room, it sucked the air out of them. So I was like, I'm not doing that, I'm up here without a net now, I'm just going to do this. Here's what saved me. I knew my proposal and I knew my conclusion, which were the same. All I had to do was prove that proposal. So as I'm up there, I had prepared some things, but I'm essentially making things up, that I know will do the job because I know the armature. Now this is not to brag, this is about how well the technique works. I got an immediate standing ovation. Some of those people, they know what they're looking at, some of those people are pretty big deal people, and so they came up, I'm friends with some of them now, like we've got to hang out, I've got to pick your brain, and I was sort of the celebrity of that thing, and there were people who went to the EG conference every year, and I heard from people that it was either the best speech they'd heard, or in the top five speeches they'd heard at that conference, and some serious people had spoken at that conference before. So, but that was just the technique, it's nothing special about me, I just knew the technique, and everybody can learn it, and when I've taught it to people like a guy I used to work with, Jesse Bryan at the Belief Agency, we helped the CEO write a speech, and he's a shy guy, but we found his armature and we said, this is your armature, this is what you have to do this about, and he did it, and we heard back from people who worked with him. It's the best speech he's ever given, he was comfortable, he knew what he was saying, he knew what he was doing up there and he believed what he was saying, because that's key. It's key to believe what you're saying. So it doesn't matter whether you're writing a story or whatever, it always helps. For instance, a lot of times people will write an email to somebody and in the email, there's like 10 or 15 things to pay attention to, and then when that happens, a lot of things don't get addressed. So if your armature is your subject, and everything is dealing with that, and then if you have more to say, that's another email. This one's just about this, now, all of a sudden, I've told people that, and I know other people I've worked with who've told people that, and all of a sudden, people are responding to their emails differently, things are getting addressed that weren't getting addressed, because they started with their armature. Because there's too much to pay attention to. Is this for me? Is this for somebody else, especially if it's a group email, who's this for? Am I supposed to do this? But if it's one thing, hey, Brian, take care of this thing. Oh, okay.  One thing about point, which is interesting. So I've been teaching this a long time now and I don't usually get new questions, but one day somebody had a question I'd never heard before. So I'm talking about having point, and somebody says, what's a point? And I thought it was pretty self explanatory, but I try to honour the question, and so I answered and I talked about armature, talked about having a point, knowing what you want to say and all of that, and anyway, he got it, but afterwards, I went, what is a point? I have to actually know that. So I looked it up, a point, the definition of a point, one of the definitions is the tapered sharp end of a tool or a weapon, and I'm like, that's exactly what a point is in a story, because you can weaponise. As a matter of fact, I actually don't believe that you can make a tool without also making a weapon. I think that they always go together. When we harness fire, that's a tool, but it's also a weapon. A hammer is a tool that can also be a weapon. Writing is a tool that can also be a weapon. Storytelling is a tool that can also be a weapon. I don't think you can make one without the other. It's just what you decide to do with it. Ula Ojiaku It's like different sides of the same coin, really. Brian McDonald Yeah, the tapered sharp end of a tool or weapon, and that's what a point is. Ula Ojiaku So what led to your updating of the Invisible Ink? Could you tell us a bit about that, please? Brian McDonald Well, it took me six years to get the book published. I wrote it and it took forever to get published, it took a long time. And so, I learned more, and when the book was finally going to get published, I thought, well, I know more now than I did then, when I wrote this book. Do I amend the book? Or do I put it out the way it is? Well, I had been teaching, and that book was essentially what I had been teaching, and I knew it worked for people, and I knew it resonated with people, so I went, well, you know, this is fine. I'll just put this one out and then later I'll know enough new stuff that I can put that in the book, and so that's what I did. I started teaching things that weren't in the book, and there were enough of them that I thought, okay, this is enough new stuff that I can justify a new book, and also I changed some of the language a little bit, there was some gender stuff in Invisible Ink that, as the years went on, rubbed people the wrong way, and I understand that, and so I'm like, let me adjust that. It took me a while to figure out how to adjust it, but once I figured that out, because I wanted to be honest about the things I was observing, but the world moved on and I didn't want to be stuck. Now in another 10 or 20 years, there might be stuff in the book that people go, I can't believe you wrote that, but there's nothing I can do about that, but as long as I'm around to make changes, I'll make those changes. So that was a less of it than really I had more to say and I found ways of being more clear and over the years I've gotten questions, like people didn't know how to build a story using an armature, so I started teaching that more and so that's in the book, and also I talk about first acts more because I think the first act is so important and it's actually getting lost, particularly in Hollywood. I was told by an agent I had not to write a first act, because they want to get right to the action, but the first act in a story, there's a lot of work it's doing, and one of the things it does is it creates a connection between the audience and the protagonist. So the difference is this. If I say there was a terrible car wreck yesterday. Oh, that sounds terrible. Was anybody hurt? Yeah, your best friend was in a terrible car wreck. Ula Ojiaku That changes everything. Brian McDonald Everything. That's what the first act does. Oh, I know this person this is happening to. You eliminate that, you get all the spectacle and all that other stuff, but you don't care. That first act makes people care. So I focused on that a lot, and I talk about how to build a story from that armature, how that helps your first act, and how to build the rest of the story using that armature. So that's why I've changed the subtitle to Building Stories from the Inside Out, because that's more the focus of this book Land of the Dead is my favourite of my books right now, because most of what I teach, in some way or another, used to be taught, a lot of it was common knowledge up till about the 1920s. So all I've done is do a lot of studying and reading and all of that. The Land of the Dead has things in it that I haven't read other places, and I feel like it's my contribution, in a different way, to storytelling. I think I've added some vocabulary to storytelling, broadly speaking and there's one thing in particular in that book, angel characters, I talk about angels, not in a religious sense, but in a story sense and how they operate in stories, and I don't know if anybody's ever talked about it. They may talk about it somewhere, but they don't talk about anything I've read about story, and there's some other things too in The Land of the Dead I think I've added to the vocabulary, so I feel proud of that. I feel like I put my handprint on the cave wall with that book. We'll see, I don't know, people like what they like, I like that book, and The Golden Theme I liked too, but those two, I think those two for me, they're actually in a way, opposite books in a way, that one is about the underworld and the information and the lessons we get from the underworld, but they're both, I think, positive. Some of the reviews with Land of the Dead talk about how it's strangely positive, given what it's about, and I'm proud of that. There's just a lot of things, I'm very proud of that book, and the memoir, which will be out who knows when, it takes a long time, it's graphic, so it's being drawn and that takes a long time, so hopefully it'll be out in another year or so. Ula Ojiaku Looking forward to that. So where can the audience find you if they want to reach out to you? Brian McDonald Well, they can go to my website, writeinvisibleink.com They can do that. They can follow me on Instagram, which is @beemacdee Those are the places where people usually find me and they can write me from the website, and my classes are offered there. So I teach zoom classes. Ula Ojiaku Do you have any final words for the audience? Brian McDonald I would say, to pay attention to the stories around you, pay attention when people talk, if you learn how to do that, you will learn everything you want to know about storytelling, because it's in the natural world. So you'll learn when you're bored, why you're bored, when you're engaged, why you're engaged, and it's hard for people at first, but if they can learn, I say, observe stories in their natural habitat. So, the problem is when people are in a conversation, they're in a conversation and it's hard to observe and be in a conversation, but if you practice it, you can do it, and it's really interesting to hear somebody talk and they'll talk in three acts, they'll have a proposal, they'll have an argument, they'll have a conclusion and you'll hear it, and the reason I think that's important is because until you teach it to yourself, you will think, oh, what did Brian say, or I think Brian's wrong about this, or this is his take. When you observe it yourself, you're teaching it to yourself. You don't have to listen to me at all, teach it to yourself. It'll prove itself to you, and then that comes from a different place when you start using it. You're not following my rules and quotes, and so I think that's really important that people have ownership over it and that they know that it's theirs, and they're not painting by numbers. Ula Ojiaku Thank you, Brian. Pay attention to the stories around you. This has been an amazing conversation and my heart is full, and I want to say thank you so much for the generosity with which you've shared your wisdom, your experience, your knowledge. Thank you. Brian McDonald Thank you. Thanks for having me. Ula Ojiaku My pleasure. That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. If you liked this show, do subscribe at www.agileinnovationleaders.com or your favourite podcast provider. Also share with friends and do leave a review on iTunes. This would help others find this show. I'd also love to hear from you, so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com Take care and God bless!     

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Chris Ware — author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown, and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest living cartoonists. Chris's new book, The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, opens his sketchbooks for public consumption: a potentially painful move for an artist as self-conscious and perfectionist as Ware. He tells me a bit about the relationship between cartooning and architecture, what he's trying to do with his graphic novels, the importance of R Crumb and Art Spiegelman to his work, and what gave him the confidence to turn his back on fine art.  

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Chris Ware — author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown, and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest living cartoonists. Chris's new book, The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, opens his sketchbooks for public consumption: a potentially painful move for an artist as self-conscious and perfectionist as Ware. He tells me a bit about the relationship between cartooning and architecture, what he's trying to do with his graphic novels, the importance of R Crumb and Art Spiegelman to his work, and what gave him the confidence to turn his back on fine art.  

In this episode of Future Finance, Glenn Hopper and Paul Barnhurst welcome Nathan Bell, a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience navigating complex intersections of finance, data analytics, and digital transformation. From his roots in coding at TransUnion to becoming a chief credit officer and later a CFO, Nathan shares his compelling journey and invaluable insights into leveraging data for decision-making and efficiency.Nathan Bell is a transformative leader in finance and technology, specializing in data-driven decision-making and digital transformation. With expertise spanning data governance, advanced analytics, and financial operations, Nathan has worked at the forefront of technology adoption in organizations ranging from startups to established enterprises. A former Gartner analyst, he now leads VI Consulting, helping finance teams unlock the potential of data and AI.Expect to Learn:The interplay between finance, data, and technology in decision-making.The critical first steps to establishing effective data governance and management.Real-world stories of overcoming challenges with data literacy and BI implementation.How to prepare finance teams for scaling and adopt advanced analytics.The importance of a sufficient "truth" in reporting and avoiding pitfalls in self-service BI.From building foundational data governance structures to navigating advanced analytics, Nathan emphasized that success lies in aligning teams, leveraging the right tools, and cultivating a culture of data literacy. His unique journey underscores the importance of embracing change and preparing for a future where finance professionals who adapt to AI and data-driven decision-making will lead the way.Follow Nathan:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-bell-1038662/Website: https://www.vai-consulting.com/Company: https://meetvirginia.io/Join hosts Glenn and Paul as they unravel the complexities of AI in finance:Follow Glenn:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbhopperiiiFollow Paul:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefpandaguyFollow QFlow.AI:Website - https://bit.ly/4i1EkjgFuture Finance is sponsored by QFlow.ai, the strategic finance platform solving the toughest part of planning and analysis: B2B revenue. Align sales, marketing, and finance, speed up decision-making, and lock in accountability with QFlow.ai. Stay tuned for a deeper understanding of how AI is shaping the future of finance and what it means for businesses and individuals alike.In Today's Episode:[01:59] From Coding to Finance Leadership[04:22] Building Stories with Data[09:35] Transition to Data Analytics Leadership[12:49] Tackling Data Governance Challenges[17:17] Owning the Data Narrative[19:57] Typical Clients and Scaling Finance Teams[25:23] Bridging the Finance Skills Gap[30:02] Fun and Random: Nathan's Travel Tales[32:52] Closing Thoughts and Wrap Up

Comics, like cinema, is an eminently modern medium. And as with cinema, looking closely at it can swiftly acquaint us with the profound weirdness of modernity. Do that in the context of a discussion on Charles Burns' comic masterpiece Black Hole, and you're guaranteed a memorable Weird Studies episode. Black Hole was serialized over ten years beginning in 1995, and first released as a single volume by Pantheon Books in 2005. Like all masterpieces, it shines both inside and out: it tells a captivating story, a "weirding" of the teenage romance genre, while also revealing something of the inner workings of comics as such. In this episode, Phil and JF explore the singular wonders of a medium that, thanks to artists like Burns, has rightfully ascended from the trash stratum (https://www.weirdstudies.com/20) to the coveted empyrean of artistic respectability—without losing its edge. BIG NEWS: • If you're planning to be in Bloomington, Indiana on October 9th, 2024, click here (https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2024-fall-wednesday-october-9-700pm) to purchase tickets to IU Cinema's screening of John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, featuring a live Weird Studies recording with JF and Phil. • Go to Weirdosphere (http://www.weirdosphere.org) to sign up for Matt Cardin's upcoming course, MC101: Writing at the Wellspring, starting on 22 October 2024. • Visit https://www.shannontaggart.com/events and follow the links to learn more about Shannon's (online) Fall Symposium at the Last Tuesday Society. Featured speakers include Steven Intermill & Toni Rotonda, Shannon Taggart, JF Martel, Charles and Penelope Emmons, Doug Skinner, Michael W. Homer, Maria Molteni, and Emily Hauver. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Charles Burns, Black Hole (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375714726) Clement Greenberg's concept of “medium specificity” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_specificity#cite_note-2) Terry Gilliam (dir.), The Fisher King (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/) Seth (https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/seth/), comic artist Chris Ware, Building Stories (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375424335) “Graphic Novel Forms Today” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677339) in Critical Inquiry Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780691141053) Vilhelm Hammershoi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Hammersh%C3%B8i), Danish painter Ramsey Dukes, Words Made Flesh (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311112) G. Spencer-Brown, [Laws of Form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawsofForm) Dave Hickey, “Formalism” (https://approachestopainting.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/19135319-hickey-7-formalism-036.pdf) Nelson Goodman, [Languages of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguagesofArt) Chrysippus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysippus), Stoic philosopher Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060976255)

Everything Pro Wrestling and Hubbard Wrestling are joining forces to bring the wrestling community Clash Of The Podcasts. We will get some discussion points and talk pro wrestling with you all. In Episode 108 we will discuss the following: - WWE Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns meet in Georgia - 3 Hour SmackDown? - AEW Grandslam Preview Subscribe to Hubbard Wrestling Weekly ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@HubbWWeekly⁠ HWW Site- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.hwweekly.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WE HAVE SOME GREAT MERCH ON TEE PUBLIC

In this episode of The Speed of Culture, Matt is joined by Maureen Polo, Head of Direct-to-Consumer at Hello Sunshine. They discuss how to leverage technology for human-centric storytelling, the growing influence of AI in content creation, and the pivotal role of consumer insights in shaping media strategies. Follow Suzy on Twitter: @AskSuzyBizFollow Maureen Polo on LinkedInSubscribe to The Speed of Culture on your favorite podcast platform.And if you have a question or suggestions for the show, send us an email at suzy@suzy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Public radio icon Ira Glass has a famous quote describing the gap between taste and talent in trying to hone your creative work. When you start out, your tastes are always bigger than your skill. It's a frustrating gap, and one that causes a lot of people to give up. In this episode we talk about everything that plays a part in the taste-skill gap. From personal energy and health, to money, ability, mood, and your relationship to the project as a whole. We talk about how our changing tastes have made our recent work all the more challenging. EPISODE MENTIONS: Ira Glass on the taste-talent gap: https://youtu.be/91FQKciKfHI?si=2PxIFIGoOwWvM7ty Chris Ware's Building Stories: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/building-stories-by-chris-ware.html Design Doc episode 49, Imperfect Inspiration: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imperfect-inspiration/id1298080097?i=1000570727332 LINKS/CREDIT Website: turtlebun.com Patreon: patreon.com/turtlebun Design Doc intro/outro theme by Pat King GET IN TOUCH: Designdocpod (at) gmail (dot) com Join the Turtlebun Discord! https://discord.gg/XD4WVDjvbz Instagram: instagram.com/turtleandbun Turtlebun Twitter: twitter.com/turtleandbun Design Doc on Twitter: twitter.com/designdocpod

Homeschool mother of 14 children and homeschool curriculum author, Marilyn Boyer, joins the Master Books podcast to introduce her What a Character: Notable Lives from History series of books for 4th-8th grade students. This series is perfect for family read alouds, independent reading practice, and as a supplement to homeschool history, science, geography, and language arts courses. In this episode, Marilyn shares: The importance of using stories to help children learn. The importance of having a true representation of history as opposed to an edited version. Inspiring biographical stories of a war hero, an extraordinary animal hero, and Thomas Edison. The series includes the follow books that offer 10 stories each. America's War Heroes Inventors & Scientists Extraordinary Animal Heroes America's Famous Spies Heroes from the War of Independence Famous Women in History  You can learn more about this amazing series of character building readers at this link. https://www.masterbooks.com/what-a-character-series

We all tell ourselves stories everyday, but how important are those stories to how our life turns out? How important is our ability to tell stories? In this episode, Lisa Gerber discusses the power of storytelling and how it can be used to connect with others and convey ideas. Lisa is a speaker, author, and story strategist and communications expert who works with purpose-driven leaders to help them communicate to connect. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the needs of the audience and tailoring stories to resonate with them. Lisa also highlights the role of editing in storytelling, both in terms of brevity and specificity. She explores the positive and negative impact of stories on individuals and society, and shares insights on how to help children build their own empowering stories. The conversation concludes with a discussion on challenging false stories and the importance of self-empowerment through storytelling. To find out more about Lisa, or to get in contact: https://bigleapcreative.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagerber/ https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6868739912078909440/ https://www.instagram.com/lisagerber/?hl=en 00:00: Introduction and Updates 02:57: The Power of Story 08:31: Improving Storytelling 14:03: The Impact of Stories 28:32: Building Stories for Children 31:32: Challenging False Stories 36:28: Final Thoughts 41:35: Contacting Lisa Gerber All Magical Learning podcasts are recorded on the beautiful lands of the Kulin, Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri nations, and we pay our respect to their elders past and present. As always, if you are having trouble, you can always send us a message. Listen to/watch this podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/128QgGOlt293SnJkqN1w6e?si=805eef704962447b To find out more about our free content, sign-up for future webinars as well as our other services, go to https://magicallearning.com/ and sign up! You can also find us on our socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magical_learning/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicallearningteam/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magicallearning/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb70j5K0EE1DLlCLCvqdsVQ? Have a Magical day!

Building Stories is a new long-term exhibition at the National Building Museum that will bring kids and adults alike on an immersive exploration of the world of architecture, engineering, construction, and design found in the pages of children's books. Cathy Frankel, the Deputy Director for Interpretive Content at the museum, tells us about the Building Stories exhibit, what it entails, and what the inspiration behind it was.

309 Building Stories To Last    Dedicating your time to something that fulfills you is a vital part of the human experience, an example from today's episode being home improvement projects on a property that's almost one hundred years old. Dedicating time to something that was loved so it can be loved again and in turn become a testament to your skill and care for details, can only empower you and elevate your skills and reputation.  In this episode Sarah Elkins and Dylan Cinti discuss the power of putting time, effort, love, and curiosity into what you enjoy to do, whether that be a career, education, or a project. Putting that level of dedication into something that can be treasured for years to come is something that can only benefit you and those around you, just as it is so eloquently put by Dylan in today's episode.    Highlights Encouraging curiosity can lead you to incredible paths.  The power of one person can change everything. Be proud of your seat at the table and what you contribute to the conversation.   Quotes “That whole experience and being able to tell that story was- again like I was talking about with my experience in community highschool; One of these moments that afterward you feel so lucky, like wow I got to tell that story. And what an important story that is.” “In my experience in residential real estate I think there's two ways to approach it: One way is you acquire as many properties as possible and you focus on building the biggest portfolio possible and you don't focus to much on improvements, you focus more on expanding your portfolio size and that's one way to do it, and then the other way is you put money back into these properties to make them better, to restore those historic features and you really put your time and resource toward elevating a smaller portfolio and taking that smaller portfolio to the next level and that's very much our goal.”   Dear Listeners it is now your turn, When you think about a brand maybe you can turn that around and make your own personal brand, or if you don't like that buzz phrase you can use the term reputation. What are you putting out there to demonstrate who you are and what matters to you? What stories are you telling? What images are you sharing? What are you doing on social media? Because all of what you do are making stories for other people to consider who you are, and if you are putting things out there that aren't in alignment with how you want to experience yourself and how you want others to experience you, then you're going to feel a disconnect and extreme dissatisfaction in relationships and in life. So I encourage you, think about what your reputation is and what you want it to be, and really consider how your behavior, your actions, and what you share contribute to who you believe you are, how you experience yourself, and how the people in your life get to experience you. And, as always, thank you for listening.    Mentioned In This Episode Shelley Brown Paul Haury Ozlem Brooke Erol   About Dylan I'm driven to help build brands and communities. As a creative marketer, I have over 10 years of experience leading teams to produce rebrands, content programs and multichannel campaigns for B2B and B2C companies. I also have operational expertise beginning with my role as Editorial Director at Walker Sands, where I led a 12-person team responsible for over $12 million in annual agency revenue. Through that role and subsequent leadership positions, I've learned the fundamentals of team management, financial forecasting and holistic marketing strategy — skills I brought to my co-founding role at Yarrow, a real estate firm dedicated to giving Ypsilanti residents places they're proud to call home. Be sure to check out Dylan's Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as his company Yarrow's website, facebook page, and launch video!   About Sarah "Uncovering the right stories for the right audiences so executives, leaders, public speakers, and job seekers can clearly and actively demonstrate their character, values, and vision." In my work with coaching clients, I guide people to improve their communication using storytelling as the foundation of our work together. What I've realized over years of coaching and podcasting is that the majority of people don't realize the impact of the stories they share - on their internal messages, and on the people they're sharing them with. My work with leaders and people who aspire to be leaders follows a similar path to the interviews on my podcast, uncovering pivotal moments in their lives and learning how to share them to connect more authentically with others, to make their presentations and speaking more engaging, to reveal patterns that have kept them stuck or moved them forward, and to improve their relationships at work and at home. The audiobook, Your Stories Don't Define You, How You Tell Them Will is now available! Included with your purchase are two bonus tracks, songs recorded by Sarah's band, Spare Change, in her living room in Montana. Be sure to check out the Storytelling For Professionals Course as well to make sure you nail that next interview!

Amir R. Korangy is an Iranian-American publisher and film producer, who founded the business magazine, The Real Deal, about real estate and finance news. He also produced the PBS documentary, "Building Stories", about architect Costas Kondylis. Amir Korangy is also an adjunct associate professor of media and real estate at New York University where in the fall of 2018 he will be teaching a course titled the Korangy sessions where graduate students will have an opportunity to court questions as to the reality of real estate in the city and the country, complementing to their theoretical framework.

Listen to two very different testimonies, life-experiences, and stories, all while finding the commonality of a heart for others and a pursuit to listen to the Holy Spirit's prompting to share Christ with others in Mark's conversation with Paul Carey and Makaylea Lehart.Find out more about Fellowship Bible Church at: https://fbcva.org

On today's episode we are joined by Amir Korangy. Amir is the founder and publisher of The Real Deal the premier real-estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through digital, print, social media and events bringing readers breaking news, market intelligence, custom research, proprietary rankings, deal analysis, profiles, trends and much more. Amir is also an adjunct associate professor of media and Real estate at NYU and produced the PBS documentary, "Building Stories", about architect Costas Kondylis.

"Family" can be a loaded concept, and don't even get us started on the misnomer "traditional family!" Luckily we have two experts from the nonprofit organization  Family Equality here to talk about the hard work their organization is doing to move toward both legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ families. In this week's episode we are chatting with Shelbi Day and Rebecca Willman.   Shelbi Day (she/her) joined Family Equality in October 2016 as Senior Policy Counsel and now works as the Chief Policy Officer. She has dedicated her career to LGBTQ+ advocacy and law. Rebecca Willman (she/her) is Chief Community Engagement and Programs Officer at Family Equality and has spent most of her adult life ensuring bodily and emotional autonomy for individuals and families. Family Equality believes that storytelling is key to helping people understand the similarities between all types of families, and both Shelbi and Rebecca have fascinating fertility journeys to share. Have you wondered what the household feels like when both women are in the midst of fertility hormones? Or how five different people can contribute to build a family tree that is more of a lush and intertwining bush? What is the difference between a family of origin and a chosen family? What are good children's books and family traditions to help children see themselves and their family as represented and rooted in the community? We came away from this conversation so impressed with both our guests and their organization. Fertility treatment options have expanded the complexity of options available for LGBTQ+ families. But these families existed long before ART, and unfortunately so did legal challenges to the rights of LGBTQ+ parents. Listen for a better understanding of both the legal need for a group like Family Equality, and for the stories that help us connect with one another.  Mention: Episode 12: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Families with If These Ovaries Could Talk (now titled The Queer Families Podcast) Make sure to catch the short snack episode to hear all about advocacy and some of the BIG changes that took place in 2022. Support your local indie bookstore!  Resources: Our Shelves  Family Equality Book Nook Family Equality Fertility & Trying To Conceive Virtual Support Group Family Equality - Family Week in Provicetown  Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall - Goodreads

Listen and Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and more: https://link.chtbl.com/creativepeptalkSupport the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!Transcripts available at creativepeptalk.com/episodes!_________SHOW NOTESGet the Creative Career Path e-Handbook by signing up to our newsletter!The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Book by Ryan HolidayHero on a Mission: The Power of Finding Your Role in Life - Book by Donald MillerThe Hero With a Thousand Faces - Book by Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey - Book by Joseph CampbellThe Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Book by Christopher VoglerInvisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate - Book by Brian McDonald_________CALL TO ADVENTURETranslate your obstacle into a dream brief.What are the non-negotiable deliverables for this obstacle?_________SPONSORSADOBE WIREFRAMEThis episode is supported by Wireframe, an original podcast from Adobe. The show is for small business owners who handle all the branding, content and design on their own for their business. Each episode features one small business owner, we pair them with a mentor who has built their own successful brand and then a designer to help them execute a plan to solve their problem. Click here to check out Adobe Wireframe and listen to the new season now!

I was looking to produce language stories, which combined the most relevant parts of TPRS and mini stories. My aim was to stay true to first step in the TPRS method by identifying phrases and vocabulary as learning outcomes before the reading starts. Next, I understood the importance of keeping the story and plot relevant to the reader and, in the way that Mini Stories demands, appropriate for their level. And finally, adhering to the recipe for any good story – keep things interesting, fresh and engaging.

Menù del giorno: - NIMONA - DOCTOR STRANGE NEL MULTIVERSO DELLA FOLLIA (con Max Church) 1' 35'' - SHINING GIRLS (con Federico Vascotto) 16' 04'' - 3 ILLUSTRATORI DA SEGUIRE SU INSTAGRAM (Davide Bonazzi, Ale Giorgini, Joey Guidone) 25' 32'' - ROBERT EGGERS (con Andrea Piemonti) 26' 53'' - INCONTRO CON RAMA di Arthur C. Clarke (con Federico Pani) 47' 39'' - Lista dell'attesa n°37 (Building Stories, Decision to Leave, Secret Invasion) 1h 01' 14'' ATTENZIONE: contiene anche pareri forti su Independence Day, la follia di Daenerys Targaryen e 6 film che vi possono servire se vi son piaciuti o avete odiato The Vvitch, The Lighthouse e The Northman. Lasciaci stelline e recensioni su Spotify e Apple Podcast, grazie! LINK: - Tutto l'universo di Yugen: https://linktr.ee/gario - Da seguire su Instagram Davide Bonazzi: https://www.instagram.com/davidebonazzi24/ Ale Giorgini: https://www.instagram.com/alegiorgini/ Joey Guidone: https://www.instagram.com/joeyguidone/

Mark Gagliardi and Hal Lublin from We Got This are here! This dynamic duo of improv performers, actors, and fellow podcast hosts are among the funniest people I've ever talked to. Today we chat about everything animal - from the animals who scare them to the ones that changed their lives.We dive deep into why we chase special relationships with our pets, why some people go gaga for men who love cats, and what actually makes us feel what we feel about animals. One of these hilarious guys also reveals a secret fascination with Silver Backed Gorillas, and there's a bit about some very impressive improv bears. Tune in to listen to this incredible episode filled with jokes, puns, and a healthy dose of stories from the heart.Join The Animal That Changed You community on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook -- we're waiting to welcome you! Feel free to check out the website while you're at it.Please leave a rating or review of the show. Your support matters so much!Feel free to call ‪(415) 787-3159 to leave a short story about the animal who changed you - we might play yours on our next episode!Woof, meow, oink, moo, cheep (of course you know that means thanks for listening.)

Hello dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week we're going international as we are joined by our friends from Pigmavision from way down in Chile! Please go and check them out, they are wonderful people, podcasters, and supporters of the show! They can be found on twitter @pigmavision and on all major podcasting platforms! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations? If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com! We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air! If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

A couple of months ago, I read the book - The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life by Noah Lukeman. In it, I found a comprehensive list of character traits. I asked myself, “Do my favourite characters have all these traits?”. I choose Lord John Grey from Outlander to find out. I now challenge you to pick a character or two and discover how they were brought to life. This episode focuses on locations.   Recommended book - Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald   At StorySD.com you can: Get free eBooks (English and Portuguese) Watch/Listen all StorySD episodes Sign up to our newsletter for exclusive content Explore recommended articles, books, podcasts and videos   Other StorySD series: Series 1 - Transmedia Storytelling for Business Series 2 - Build your Business Stories Series 3 - Technology – The future is here Series 4 - Use Stories To … Series 5 - Characters Series 6 - Travel Guide for Kids Series 7 - Transmedia Storytelling Case Studies Series 8 - Story Breakdown Series 9 - Interactive Storytelling Series 10 - Stories from Scotland Series 11 - Character Case Study

As a builder, journalist and media pro, Abha brings a ton of insights and perspectives on community, storytelling and WooCommerce.

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1. Wuhan lab staff sickened before pandemic: report 2. Beijing sets protester as terrorist in drill 3. Ultramarathon: 30% kickback for CCP official? 4. Insider exposes China's organ transplant industry

1. Wuhan lab staff sickened before pandemic: report 2. Beijing sets protester as terrorist in drill 3. Ultramarathon: 30% kickback for CCP official? 4. Insider exposes China's organ transplant industry

Candy and Brian are joined by Lisa Traut, Neuqua Valley Department Chair & Media Communications Teacher; and Brian Wiencek, Waubonsie Valley Media Communications teacher, to share how student’s share their school’s story.   Lisa and Brian explain how students play a role at Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley in sharing information about each school. Lisa and Brian also share tips and insights about incorporating student agency into a teacher’s instruction and how students share their voice in their classroom.

Amir Korangy, "Reinvention is a must", Founder, Chairman, Publisher at The Real Deal shares his story on Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind with Michael Valdes Podcast #161 Amir Korangy is not only the publisher of "The Real Deal" but is also an investor, film producer, and professor who truly cares about our industry. He always believed in his vision of whatever project he was involved in and it has proven him well. "Belief in myself was one of the greatest lessons I ever learned in my career", he says proudly. It was a pleasure having a conversation with this great leader in real estate. More About Amir Korangy:  Amir R. Korangy  is an Iranian-American publisher and film producer, who founded the business magazine, The Real Deal, about real estate and finance news. He also produced the PBS documentary, "Building Stories", about architect Costas Kondylis. Amir Korangy is also an adjunct associate professor of media and real estate at New York University where in the fall of 2018 he was  teaching a course titled the Korangy sessions where graduate students will have an opportunity to court questions as to the reality of real estate in the city and the country: a complementing to their theoretical framework. Korangy was born in Tehran, Iran. After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 his family left Iran as political refugees and spent time in Paris and Madrid before settling in the Washington DC area. Korangy received a BA in Journalism and Foreign Policy at Boston University and attended Emerson College. About Michael Valdes:  Michael Valdes is the newly named President of eXp Global at eXp Realty. Previously Michael was the senior vice president of global servicing for Realogy Corporation, one of the world's largest real estate companies and parent to Coldwell Banker, C21 and Sotheby’s. Earlier in his career, Mr. Valdes was Director of Private Banking at Deutsche Bank for just under a decade where he oversaw a book of business of just under $1 billion. He has the distinction of being the first Director in the United States of Latino descent. Mr. Valdes is the Chair of the AREAA Global Advisory Board and co-host of the 2020 AREAA Global Luxury Summit. He is also a current member of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors and a member of Forbes' Real Estate Council. Additionally, he is the Executive Chair of the ONE VOZ, Hispanic ERG for the firm and a member of Forbes Real Estate Council. He is a former Board Member of Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach as well as the Shanti Organization in San Francisco. Michael was also a Board Member of Pink & Blue for 2, an organization started by Olivia Newton-John to promote breast and prostate cancer awareness.

Would you take off in a sailboat by yourself and go off to sea? My guest on this episode did just that.As a young man, Dave Bricker was inspired by the remarkable people he met in Miami’s “secret floating village.” The sailboat anchorage a quarter-mile off-shore from Miami City Hall attracted world travellers, squatters, dreamers, and bums. All had remarkable stories to tell.Before he graduated from college, he was living aboard his own tiny sailboat. Soon after graduation, he set sail for the Bahamas with a locker full of food and dreams … and $40 in his pocket.His voyages took him up and down the Bahamas, up the east coast of the US to Chesapeake Bay, and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar. He ran aground, dealt with mechanical breakdowns, got seasick more than once, slept in a volcano, survived powerful storms, and returned to the land of clocks and calendars with what he’d gone in search of—stories of his own.Today, as a speaker, trainer, and coach, he helps remarkable people tell remarkable stories—through writing, speaking, graphic design, video, technology, and music. If you want to say it, share it, or sell it, bring me your story; I’ll help you tell it.Find out more about Dave and Story Sailing: https://StorySailing.com is loaded with content—blog posts, videos, and various ways to contact me for coaching, workshops, or speaking engagements.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

durée : 00:31:56 - Boomerang - par : Augustin Trapenard - Monument de la BD américaine, deux fois récompensé à Angoulême pour "Jimmy Corrigan" et "Building Stories", son nouvel album "Rusty Brown", livre monstre de 350 pages, somme de vingt ans de dessins, est en lice pour le Fauve d’Or. Chris Ware est l'invité d'Augustin Trapenard.

Do you copy others in their marketing efforts? To some extent we all do. But is their audience the same as yours? Is their marketing person skilled? Or are you just following the influencer? In this episode, Jason and Bridget will rant about hashtags. Okay. You’re right. Bridget will rant and Jason will balance her out. But that’s why you watch the show, right? Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker Bridget Willard @bridgetmwillard Check Out Bridget’s New Book “Keys To Being Social: Being Real In A Virtual World” Kindle – https://amzn.to/2HZELOq Paperback – https://amzn.to/2H4lqvl Show Sponsors Desktop Server – ServerPress https://serverpress.com WPsitesync – https://www.wpsitesync.com Are You Looking For Brand Awareness? You could be a show sponsor. Let people know you’re still in business and supporting your products. Supporting podcasts is a great way to repurpose your in-person conference budget. We have been sponsored by big brands such as Kinsta and Cloudways. Why not get your audience in front of the thousands of people who download this show every month? Yes, The Smart Marketing Show has thousands of downloads every month. We’re not just a YouTube Show. Bridget’s Videos On Hashtags When we are self-taught, it’s easy to have gaps in our education. We see an influencer use a hashtag and copy them without really understanding the why. These videos should help. Hashtags Are For Search How to Effectively Use Hashtags Hashtags are Links How To Follow a Hashtag or Twitter Chat Tool Or Tip Of The Week This week’s Tool or Tip of the Week is brought to you by Keys to Being Social — The Book. Bridget recommends Lumen 5’s Business Video Maker. This tool allows you to convert a blog post into a video and more. Their pricing starts at a free plan and goes up to enterprise level. You can even write a script. With a tool like this, there’s no reason why you can’t build up your YouTube channel. You’ll have to watch the episode to see Jason’s recommendation. 00:01:52 What are hashtags 00:02:51 Twitter Chats using Hashtags 00:04:03 Hashtags are a filter 00:04:37 Hashtags as sarcasm 00:05:09 Hashtags are like search 00:06:20 Hashtags are links 00:06:26 Hashtags are not translated 00:07:33 Hashtags are not transferable between social networks when crossposted 00:08:12 Hashtags and TikTok 00:09:06 Nobody can own a hashtag 00:09:29 Be careful with hashtags 00:10:12 Hashtag Trends 00:12:02 This episode is worth $175 of my time 00:14:06 Hashtags are like Categories and Tags in WordPress 00:15:23 Question - Do you encourage people to follow your hashtags? 00:17:05 You don’t have to use all the hashtags 00:18:32 Hashtags are not a magic thing 00:19:12 Hashtags on Facebook 00:20:03 Organizing your hashtags for a tweet 00:21:01 Hashtags and accessibility 00:22:58 Hashtags and Instagram tip 00:25:44 More tricks on organizing a tweet with a call to action and hashtags 00:26:43 Capitalize hashtags for accessibility 00:28:04 Games using Hashtags 00:28:48 Off topic and silly 00:30:06 Hard returns in tweets 00:30:42 Hashtags help people participate 00:31:36 Phone vs computer and hashtags 00:33:06 Sometimes hashtags are a long game 00:33:43 Follow Bridget and her modeling 00:34:33 Number of hashtags in a post 00:35:15 Sometimes it’s better to reply than retweet 00:35:45 Use the native client for the social network at least once a day 00:36:13 Twitter Fleets 00:38:26 Bridget’s way works, try it for 2 weeks 00:39:14 Google Analytics and Twitter 00:40:28 Tool or Tip of the Week 00:41:37 Bridget’s Tool or Tip of the Week - Lumen5 00:48:34 Jason’s Tool or Tip of the Week - WAVE.video 00:50:17 Bonus tip - Using Canva to create video 00:53:25 Bonus Tip - Storyblocks with Canva 00:54:44 Reformating video using Canva 00:55:57 Building "Stories" in Canva 00:56:56 Bonus Bonus Tip - Video Leap 01:00:20 Outro Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker Bridget Willard Bridget Willard, Marketing Consultant Check Out Bridget’s New Book “Keys To Being Social: Being Real In A Virtual World” Kindle – https://amzn.to/2HZELOq Paperback – https://amzn.to/2H4lqvl Sponsors Desktop Server – ServerPress https://serverpress.com WPsitesync – https://www.wpsitesync.com Are You Looking For Brand Awareness? You could be a show sponsor. Especially now, let people know you’re still in business and supporting your products. Supporting podcasts is a great way to repurpose your in-person conference budget. https://wpwatercooler.com/sponsor #smartmarketingshow

In the real world, history lies beneath our feet. Tales of the past are often hidden in puzzles and riddles left behind by ancient civilizations, and it is the quest of the archaeologist to piece these stories together. In the next year this quest will come to the world of Minecraft and players will be able to stitch together the lore of their realm as they brush away the layers of the past. What clues might lie hidden just beneath the surface of the Caves and Cliffs Update? Let's find out in this episode of Dig Straight Down. Links Email: digstraightdowncast@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RebelJC_92 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsZ91yza4G8-zQ-pBCbZNw Discord: https://discord.com/invite/YUrFBRA In this episode Ask Mojang video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_6-ZVOUAk&t=1076s&ab_channel=Minecraft Bedrock 1.17 release: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/goats-and-powder-snow-now-bedrock-beta Ulraf's tweet: https://twitter.com/_Ulraf_/status/1318554670391066627 Ulraf's livestream event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseKqgNwYSE

Welcome to the first episode of Millennial Wealth Builders: A Women of Color's Guide To Exponential Wealth. Co-hosted by Danielle Desir and Acquania Escarne, the Millennial Wealth Builders (MWB) Series is a 12-part audio docuseries sharing how Women of Color are moving past obstacles and building real wealth in the 21st century.  In this episode, Danielle Desir and Acquania Escarne share what sparked their interest in building wealth and their accomplishments to date. New episodes of the MWB Series drop on the 1st of every month.  This limited-edition docuseries is made possible by the Plutus Foundation. Millennial Wealth Builders is the proud recipient of the Plutus Foundation Fall 2020 grant.  Subscribe to The Purpose of Money so you never miss an episode.

Co-hosted by Danielle Desir and Acquania Escarne, Millennial Wealth Builders (MWB) is a 12-part audio docuseries sharing how Women of Color are moving past obstacles and building real wealth in the 21st century.  In this episode, Danielle Desir and Acquania Escarne share what sparked their interest in building wealth and their accomplishments to date.  Our mission is to empower, educate, and entertain millennial Women of Color between the ages of 24-39. During these pivotal years, women consider purchasing homes, starting families, and some may even be caretakers to their aging parents. While budgeting and saving are essential, building wealth in communities of Color is the best way to close the wealth gap. From salary negotiations to retirement vehicles and investing in commercial and residential real estate, each episode will share practical tips so you can take immediate action. This limited-edition docuseries is made possible by the Plutus Foundation. Millennial Wealth Builders is the proud recipient of the Plutus Foundation Fall 2020 grant.  Subscribe to The Thought Card and The Purpose of Money on your favorite podcast player (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc.) to automatically get new episodes uploaded to your device.   About Hosts  Danielle Desir is the host of The Thought Card Podcast and Acquania Escarne is the host of The Purpose of Money Podcast. The Thought Card empowers financially savvy travelers to make more informed financial decisions - travel more, pay off debt, and build wealth.  The Purpose of Money inspires women to pursue their entrepreneurship and financial goals.

We're on the third episode of our mini-series looking at health conditions.This week, we're chatting to Roma Agrawal (engineer/author/build-er of The Shard) about her experience with infertility and her journey through IVF. We hear about engineering a baby, overbearing aunties, and her very real fear of embryo mix-ups.You can find Roma on Twitter (@RomaTheEngineer) and check out her podcast "Building Stories" wherever you got this one.Thanks to British Podcast Awards, Wellcome Trust, and everyone that took the time out to chat to us about this. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Erika sits down with Lee Dance & Tom Dolliver, two faithful members of the Gateway Family. They talk about our journey as a church so far; the buildings we have been in, the building we are in now, and the upcoming renovations.

Sometimes a place becomes a museum by accident. This takes the perfect mix of history, people, luck, notoriety, and course, art. One of the best examples of this rare occurrence is the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York City. Acclaimed author Fiona Davis writes novels about famous New York buildings. She recently wrote about the Chelsea Hotel, so we checked in with her to talk all about it.  

This week, we've got Roma Agrawal in the studio to talk about her life in engineering and how she ended up spending 6 years of her life building the Shard - one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. We talk about beef with the Burj Khalifa, creating something new in the centre of a huge city, and Oz's history on a teleshopping channel (plus Alex gets dragged for being incredibly pedantic for the last 34 episodes).You can find the first three episodes of Building Stories on the Building Stories website.You can find BUILT in bookshops and available on Amazon. -------------------------------------------------Music by Grapes & Evan Schaeffer-------------------------------------------------Follow us on social media and send us your questions!FacebookInstagramTwitterEmail: whynotadoc@gmail.com#whynotadoc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roma is a structural engineer whose projects include the Shard. She is a champion of diversity in the STEM sector and studied at Oxford and Imperial College London. We chat to Roma about Inferior by Angela Saini and Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, as well as her own award-winning book called Built. Find out why all engineers should talk to a class of 5 year olds! Roma’s Building Stories podcast: www.BuildingStoriesPodcast.com @BuildingStPod Contact us: readingpeople@nmite.ac.uk @nmite_ac Find Reading People on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Colin McMahon, Research Analyst catches up with Pat McGrew, Senior Director of Production Software Services, on the educational workshops that she and Kate Dunn, Director, presented during Dscoop 2019.

Join me as I review the graphic novel box set Building Stories by Cris Ware and how it presents a multi media experience unlike anything since the work of famed Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. Tonight on Robot Love. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-venegas/support

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What if the most overlooked advantage in your business is your brand story? Marc Gutman is the founder and lead storyteller at WILDSTORY. Marc is a former screenwriter working with Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, and Oliver Stone. He pivoted that season of life with the silver screen into a brand story-focused adventure. Marc and his team now help brands of all backgrounds build powerful, authentic conversations that change the way people feel about you and your brand. Do you like what you heard on Copy & Content? Subscribe, share, and review the Copy & Content Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you found this episode.  Takeaways: Our stories help us tribe together with brands, products, and causes worth supporting. By telling your customers who you are, you’re telling them who they are as well. Two questions to raise the quality of your brand story: 1) what’s the story you can’t stop thinking about?, and 2) What’s the story you don’t really want to tell? Storytelling builds empathy. Resource List: Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes by Margaret Mark and Carol S. Pearson Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert Cialdini The Dream Society: The Coming Shift from Information to Imagination by Rolf Jensen See what Marc and his crew at WILDSTORY are up to by visiting wildstory.com. Episode Production Credits: Audio Engineering: Andrew Wester, AW Audio Engineering (awaudioengineering.com) Intro and Outro Voiceover Talent: Kelli Myers Background Music: Inspiring Happiness by Premium TraX

Jamie Parslow -- filmmaker, music fan and friend of Matt's comes on the show to discuss their mutual love of Modest Mouse, the dangers of algorithm based music discovery, and Jamie explains his theory about great albums that follow "The Hero's Journey" structure. Follow Jamie on Twitter at @JamieFilms and Instagram at @Japars   Too Many Records is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent Podcast Network. Please show your support at www.dragonwagonradio.com/support 

Uma caixa grande e repleta de elementos coloridos impressos nela. Ao abrir a tampa, um monte de papéis, nos mais diferentes formatos, narram a história de uma jovem mulher, um casal, uma senhora, uma abelha… Essa é Building Stories, HQ que Chris Ware, um dos mais inventivos quadrinistas do mundo, trouxe ao mundo em 2012. Tal obra levou Clarissa Monteiro a escrever sua dissertação. Ela estuda Semiótica na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), a partir das teorias da Escola Francesa, e traz essa lente para analisar essa narrativa belíssima, fragmentada, complexa e editorialmente inovadora. Confira esse papo cabeça no HQ Sem Roteiro Podcast dessa semana!  [...]

On this week's episode of Off Panel, artist Alison Sampson joins the show to talk about her Image Comics series, Winnebago Graveyard. She discusses her architectural background, how her architecture background influences her comic art, panel layouts, her art process, backmatter, whether Winnebago Graveyard is more of a book market comic, women working on horror comics, whether she's gotten faster as an artist, getting bogged down in details, breaking in after an entirely different career, what Winnebago Graveyard taught her as a creator, Think of a City's present and future, and more.

Often regarded as one of the best in his field, graphic novelist Chris Ware, author of the Acme Novelty Library series,  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories, is usually loath to give interviews. I was surprised when Chris, a bit of an insular recluse and not necessarily a people person, accepted my invitation for an interview and invited me into his home studio. Warm and insightful about how he and other creatives move through the world, I feel that my interview with Chris Ware is one of the most important I have ever done. Enjoy this podcast and to view the video interview from his library-studio, visit http://TheDinnerParty.tv/podcast.

Check out Freelance Remote Conf! The schedule is coming together quite nicely! 02:47 - Connor Hood Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 03:33 - Nate McGuire Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 04:00 - Code My Views 07:17 - Commoditization Pressure 09:40 - Fees & Differentiation Between Agencies 13:34 - Why should someone work something like Code My Views? 19:20 - Dealing with Scope Creep 22:56 - Pricing 24:12 - Content 25:08 - When Clients Insist on Particular Stacks/Expanding Stacks & Focusus 28:46 - Updating Skills 30:15 - The Evolution of Design 32:50 - Getting Agencies as Clients 34:31 - Is the idea of a solo freelancer approaching an agency a dying concept? 37:53 - Who should not come to Code My Views? 39:03 - Estimates in One Hour 41:51 - Hiring Picks Force Block: the Star Wars spoiler blocker (Jonathan) Flu Shots (Jonathan) The Ridge Wallet (Philip) Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald (Philip) KIWI Brand deba Style Flexible Stainless Steel Knives (Philip) Laracasts (Connor) Browsersync (Connor) SalesLoft (Nate) Sendbloom (Nate) Let's Encrypt (Reuven)

Check out Freelance Remote Conf! The schedule is coming together quite nicely! 02:47 - Connor Hood Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 03:33 - Nate McGuire Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 04:00 - Code My Views 07:17 - Commoditization Pressure 09:40 - Fees & Differentiation Between Agencies 13:34 - Why should someone work something like Code My Views? 19:20 - Dealing with Scope Creep 22:56 - Pricing 24:12 - Content 25:08 - When Clients Insist on Particular Stacks/Expanding Stacks & Focusus 28:46 - Updating Skills 30:15 - The Evolution of Design 32:50 - Getting Agencies as Clients 34:31 - Is the idea of a solo freelancer approaching an agency a dying concept? 37:53 - Who should not come to Code My Views? 39:03 - Estimates in One Hour 41:51 - Hiring Picks Force Block: the Star Wars spoiler blocker (Jonathan) Flu Shots (Jonathan) The Ridge Wallet (Philip) Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald (Philip) KIWI Brand deba Style Flexible Stainless Steel Knives (Philip) Laracasts (Connor) Browsersync (Connor) SalesLoft (Nate) Sendbloom (Nate) Let's Encrypt (Reuven)

Amir Korangy's magazine, The Real Deal, started in his apartment. It focuses on all aspects of real estate news including the architecture, the people, the deals and the money. The last page of every edition is the closing interview. He has compiled 100 of the best interviews and based the book, The Closing - Interview's with New York City's Titan of Real Estate, on them. He shares his insights on the amazing entrepreneurs he has met and details how most of them came from very little to create wealth simply because they love what they do.   Key Takeaways: [1:53] The Closing Interview shows the humanity of real estate moguls [3:27] The true successors live and breathe real estate [5:40] Most real estate magnates were not handed anything, they bootstrapped their way through [7:02] David Valentes' story stands out as an inspiration [9:55] Real Estate is a local phenomenon [11:14] Costas Kondylis designed 86 high rises in Manhattan and is the subject of Building Stories [13:05] Loving what they do is the common thread which links the Titans as one [15:18] Architecture is an art form you can live in [16:39] Donald Trump and Kondylis did 18 buildings together   Mentions: The Real Deal PBS Building Stories - New York Through the Eyes of an Architect The Closing - Interviews with NYC's Titans of Real Estate  

On this episode of the podcast, the Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics review The Best American Comics 2014, the latest installment in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's ambitious anthology series. This follows a previous review show published earlier in the week where the guys spoke with Bill Kartalopoulos, the new editor of the series. But whereas during the interview Derek and Andy learned about the process and backstory to the Best American Comics series, in this episode they plunge into the specifics of this year's volume and give their own takes on the comics included. They begin with a larger discussion on the concept of “best American comics,” the kind of audiences the annual collections appeal to, and the efforts of the editors in pulling together a select or representative anthology. Here, the guys return to issues they had previously highlighted in their review of The Best American Comics 2013: the predilections and experiences of guest editors, the challenges of being inclusive, as well as the viability of a “best of” anthology. This time around Andy and Derek bandy about definitions of “mainstream” and speculate on the book's intended audience. Although both feel that this is an intelligent and eclectic collection of comics (first appearing between September 1, 2012, and August 30, 2013), Derek feels that the book might appeal more to academics and the New Yorker crowd than it does to general comic shop-visiting readers. (Returning, once again, to a topic that the guys have discussed many times previously, the unintended bifurcation of comics readership.) Furthermore, he wonders what a volume guest edited by someone enmeshed in mainstream comics – and not just superhero comics – might look like…if that is indeed a direction that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt would sanction. Andy reminds Derek how inclusive this year's volume is, and that depending on your definition of “mainstream,” McCloud's includes several comics you could certainly define as “popular.” But despite these dialectics, both guys agree that this is one of the strongest collections in the series' run and that the way that McCloud has organized his presentation is compelling. In this year's volume you have selections from the grand figures of contemporary comics (e.g., R. Crumb, the Hernandez brothers, Charles Burns, Ben Katchor, and Adrian Tomine), all-age and young-adult comics, excerpts from memoir and autobiographical comics, historical works, experimenters of narrative form, abstract and avant-garde comics, and almost as a centerpiece, a selection from what McCloud christens “the book of the year,” Chris Ware's Building Stories. Webcomics are given their fair share of attention in this volume, and the guys understand McCloud's decision to highlight and list URLs instead of attempting to reproduce comics from another platform (although they're not as excited by the one webcomic that does find its way into the collection, an excerpt from Allie Brosh's “Depression Part Two”). All in all, the guys have a great time discussing the many selections in The Best American Comics 2014, and in doing so, they get all revved up for their own “best of” exercise which they will present in next week's podcast episode.

Neil Casey (writer for Kroll Show, Inside Amy Schumer, SNL) talks to us about his interest in the emergency of the surveillance state, and how it affects the government, our interactions with each other and maybe even the way you interact with yourself. Co-host Anthony King talks about the preponderence of sugar in far more foods than he suspected, and other co-host Will Hines talks about the Motown songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Some books Neil mentions: The Circle by Dave Eggers No Place To Hide by Glenn Greenwald (breaking the Edward Snowden case) The Divide by Matt Taibii (wealth gap) Building Stories by Chris Ware Also Sugar is in everything Holland-Dozier-Holland    

In this edition of Book Talk, Ryan Van Winkle speaks to Chris Ware, Dilys Rose and Michael Fry about stories, memories and histories.Chris Ware is an American graphic novelist whose latest book is Building Stories. The book, which has no beginning or end, is designed to reflect the non-linear way we remember our lives. Chris talks about why he decided to focus the intangible world of memory and how he develops work that can be read in multiple ways.“It's like composing music. You have a sense of a feeling you're trying to get to but the second you start playing a note or hearing the notes that you're playing you think, ‘oh that doesn't sound right' or ‘that sounds better than what I had in mind'.”Scottish poet and novelist Dilys Rose picks up the thread of memory and its deception. The narrative of her new novel Pelmanism developed from the interconnected and fragmented nature of remembrance. Is there such a thing as a real memory when “once you start remembering, you start inventing as well”? Dilys also reads the homage to RD Laing she wrote for the novel as a creative solution to copyright clearance!Finally, we finish our tour of the past by speaking to historian Michael Fry. The title of Michael's newest book A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914 references a contemporary description of Scotland at a time of huge progress.  How did Scotland transform a country and its people?By looking at the past, Michael identifies how old Scotland connects to a new Scotland, “we don't have to assume our history has been lost... People in Scotland are too unaware of the facts of their history, how those facts hang together, how they have survived, and how they still influence us in the present day.”Podcast contents00:00 – 00:51 Introduction00:55 – 13:05 Chris Ware13:05 – 21:52 Dilys Rose21:52 – 33:00 Michael Fry

No.19.CHRIS WARE. Célébration de son opus magnus "BUILDING STORIES". 'Nuff said

No.19.CHRIS WARE. Célébration de son opus magnus "BUILDING STORIES". 'Nuff said

In Chris Ware’s first appearance at the Book Festival he discussed his critically acclaimed graphic novel Building Stories and why comics are a language, not a genre with event chair and comics fan Stuart Kelly. Building Stories is a box set of differently-sized comics, booklets, broadsheets, posters and a cloth bound book has been described as ‘a graphic novel on the scale of James Joyce’s Ulysses’. This event was introduced by Roland Gulliver and recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

In Chris Ware’s first appearance at the Book Festival he discussed his critically acclaimed graphic novel Building Stories and why comics are a language, not a genre with event chair and comics fan Stuart Kelly. Building Stories is a box set of differently-sized comics, booklets, broadsheets, posters and a cloth bound book has been described as ‘a graphic novel on the scale of James Joyce’s Ulysses’. This event was introduced by Roland Gulliver and recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Apologies for the delay in getting podcast #65 out (and the missing #64...it was recorded, but never released.)  In this episode of the podcast, we'll play a sample of Invisible Ink, the latest audiobook produced by Open Book Audio, and featuring our very own Matt Armstrong.  We'll also review a whole slew of titles, and we make a pretty big (and a little sad) announcement. Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate: http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Practical-Building-Resonate/dp/B00COP5NW4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370990906&sr=1-1&keywords=Invisible+Ink+Audiobook

The Eisner nominations are out and we’re having a roundtable this week to talk about ’em! We invited ComicsAlliance pals David Wolkin and Dylan Todd to talk about what was missing, what people have been saying is missing, what’s surprising, the shifting nature of digital comics, and a ton more! Also, we divide ourselves into two camps in regards to Chris Ware, though we all find Building Stories just a little big daunting.

This week Andy and Derek take on the herculean (or sisyphean, take your pick of Greek reference) task of discussing Chris Ware's Building Stories.  And they do so, surprising, without pulling any important muscles!  There is a lot to talk about concerning Building Stories, and the Two Guys with PhDs are only able to scratch the surface in this episode.  But in their review, they nonetheless touch on a variety of important points and questions to consider.  In fact, one of the conclusions reached is that Ware's project — would you really call this a “book”? — raises more questions that it actually answers.  And that's a good thing. They also review the Hernandez brother's latest issue of Love & Rockets: New Stories, although they don't spend near as much time discussing this as they do Chris Ware's book.  But don't let the length of the review fool you.  Jaime and Gilbert's recent installment of their New Stories is one of the strongest they've created so far.

The Hive and Building Stories

Graphic novelist Chris Ware stretches the notion of the book to fantastic proportions in his latest publication...

With Kirsty Lang The plot lines from the BBC political comedy The Thick of It - school breakfast club closures, texting in cabinet meetings and the launch of a community bank - have been an uncannily accurate reflection of recent announcements from our real-life politicians. Kirsty Lang talks to Sean Gray and Ian Martin, both writers on The Thick of It, and wonders if they have been gazing into a crystal ball or have a mole in Westminster. Singer Cerys Matthews gives the verdict on a new Country Music album which celebrates the women who were pioneers in a field previously dominated by men. Matthews, who has lived in Nashville, assesses the influence of artists such as Kitty Wells, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes are set to hit our screens again, this time in the US-produced series Elementary. It comes hot on the heels of Guy Ritchie's films and the BBC TV series Sherlock. Boyd Hilton discusses this latest version, starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as his sidekick Dr. Watson. New Yorker cartoonist Chris Ware discusses his non-linear graphic novel, Building Stories. It comes in the form of a big box containing 14 separate strands of narrative, in different shapes and sizes, which when pieced together in a random order build a picture of a New York Brownstone building and the psychological landscape of its inhabitants. Producer Claire Bartleet.

Click to Download.Today, we're doing a special show for beginning GMs: adventure creation. Few games tell you how to write a good adventure that will draw in your players and make a story worth remembering. Well, all you need to get started now is this episode, complete with a sample adventure outline.Here are the links for today's show: The Xen Show - correction: http://www.xenshow.net Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set at RPG Now Building Stories on the Fly (Fudge Factor Magazine) Band: Toxic Virgin (Podsafe Music Network) Song: Evil Days Adventure Creation is not that difficult, as you'll see, but it's not that easy, either. But any way you slice it, it'll be fun.