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 ====Notes from 20131002 ==== ====Notes from 20131002 ====
  
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 ====Notes from 20131003 ==== ====Notes from 20131003 ====
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     * Miranda: volcano is a rock with a hole in it, there is lava and you can die from it.     * Miranda: volcano is a rock with a hole in it, there is lava and you can die from it.
     * "In the heat" - collapsibility of a body, fragility, no escape     * "In the heat" - collapsibility of a body, fragility, no escape
-    * Dialogues (Domestic violence, Demeter & Persephone - harshness of content, gentleness of voices, related to natural and cultural disasters+    * Dialogues ( Demeter & Persephone - harshness of content, gentleness of voices, related to natural and cultural disasters
   * staging photos around the house with emerging characters (storyteller, the child...) and the environment    * staging photos around the house with emerging characters (storyteller, the child...) and the environment 
   * vocal exercise working with keywords from local legends and/or emerging from the process   * vocal exercise working with keywords from local legends and/or emerging from the process
   * Tasks for Matt: sound explorations responding to conceptual developments in Castelletto   * Tasks for Matt: sound explorations responding to conceptual developments in Castelletto
-  * Tasks for Miranda: How does this story continue: "There once was a giant, who built a town on a hill..."+  * Tasks for Miranda: How does this story continue: "There once was a giant, who built a town on a hill to hide a fairy..."
  
 {{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10072643903/}} {{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10072643903/}}
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   * What are people telling themselves?   * What are people telling themselves?
   * How can a story be dislocated and becoming something else?   * How can a story be dislocated and becoming something else?
-  * What stories are told to understand the weather (how do historical myths relate to contemporary ones, e.g. sci-fi movies about ecological disasters, where stories are only told when the weather becomes extreme... what happens to all the other stories about weather in daily life?+  * What stories are told to understand the weather: how do historical myths relate to contemporary ones, e.g. sci-fi movies about ecological disasters, where stories are only told when the weather becomes extreme... what happens to all the other stories about weather in daily life?
  
 Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as:
-  * the tribe escaping a tsunami by listening to an ancient myth and running up a mountain after recognising warning signs as predicted in the story 
   * Miranda's volcano story,    * Miranda's volcano story, 
   * the "red sunset" saying (in Italian: Rosso di sera - bel tempo si spera; rosso di mattina - pioggia si avvicina)   * the "red sunset" saying (in Italian: Rosso di sera - bel tempo si spera; rosso di mattina - pioggia si avvicina)
 +  * the tribe escaping a tsunami by listening to an ancient myth and running up a mountain after recognising warning signs as predicted in the story
 +
 +<blockquote>Anthropologists had initially expected the aboriginal population of the Andaman Islands to be badly affected by the tsunami and even feared the already depopulated Onge tribe could have been wiped out. Many of the aboriginal tribes evacuated and suffered fewer casualties. Oral traditions developed from previous earthquakes helped the aboriginal tribes escape the tsunami. For example, the folklore of the Onges talks of "huge shaking of ground followed by high wall of water". Almost all of the Onge people seemed to have survived the tsunami. 
 +
 +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami#Signs_and_warnings</blockquote>
 +
  
 Aphorisms include a heuristic approach to the world, they deal with probabilities rather than dogmas. What happens to age old sayings that might be less in tune with current climate chaos (when red sunsets don't often mean nice weather...). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time? Aphorisms include a heuristic approach to the world, they deal with probabilities rather than dogmas. What happens to age old sayings that might be less in tune with current climate chaos (when red sunsets don't often mean nice weather...). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time?
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 ====Notes from 20131004 ==== ====Notes from 20131004 ====
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 +**The Storyteller and the child**
 +
 +Characters:
 +  * storyteller 
 +  * baby
 +  * mother (the same as storyteller)
 +  * (photographer)
 +
 +The stories can be expressions of emotions, such as the threat of the body being destroyed, or a storyteller gardening or foraging the landscape, or warnings (weather, poisons…), or tales of folk wisdom…
 +
 +Task: Improvise the moments in the space, as improvised staging including the characters
 +
 +{{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084237623/}}
 +//The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden. | Edible and poisonous plants// (notes at https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10084237623/)
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 +{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086685694/}}
 +// No one knows what rolls behind the mountain //
 +{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086807063/}}
 +//Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom //
 +
 +{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086692854/}}
 +//Furious storm passes quickly //
 +{{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084173786/}}
 +//We are the authors of our own disasters | Musings on stories, ethnobotany and plant mythology//
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 +For translations see [[various_aphorisms]]
 +
 +=== Weather lore ===
 +
   * Weather lore    * Weather lore 
     * [[wp>Weather_lore]] and [[wp>Category:Weather_lore]]      * [[wp>Weather_lore]] and [[wp>Category:Weather_lore]] 
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     * rain & mushrooms     * rain & mushrooms
  
 +  * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs
 +  * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…"). Would asking people to talk about when the sun changed elicit personal stories across different cultures and communities linked by a shared experience with the weather?
  
-{{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084237623/}} +  * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather.  
-//edible and poisonous plants// (notes at https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10084237623/)+  * Evening red and morning grey, two sure signs of one fine day.  
 +  * When the forest murmurs and the mountain roars, Then close your windows and shut your doors.  
 +  * When leaves show their undersides, be very sure that rain betides.  
 +  * If bees stay at home, rain will soon come, If they flay away, fine will be the day.  
 +  * Dust rising in dry weather is a sign of approaching change.  
 +  * When smoke hovers close to the ground, there will be a weather change.  
 +  * Red sky at night, Shepard’s delight; Red sky in morning, Shepard take warning.  
 +  * When ants travel in a straight line, expect rain; when they scatter, expect fair weather.
  
-{{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084173786/}} + 
-//stories, storytelling and plant mythology//+Who are the characters and what are they doing in contemporary weather lore? 
 +  * the fable: more natural disasters due to human interference in the environment (there are some scientific explanations, but many people don't actually know how the two are related) 
 +  * different views on the relationship between humans and the biosphere: in some stories humans are seen as 'the monsters', interfering in the fragile, pure nature; nature needs protection. while other stories portray humans as victims of our own self-destructive trait, humans manifest our own disaster, but nature will adapt and outlive humanity. Both deal with the relative fragility of humans and the environment… 
 +  * superstitions: such as the reading the signs of the biblical "end of times" (resource wars, natural disasters…) 
 + 
 +=== Divination and invocation in storytelling === 
 + 
 +Divination: descriptive, reactive; "the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means." 
 + 
 +Invocation: active, giving tools to help you deal with things, or even to bring about a different world (e.g. the onwards and upwards of limitless growth); "the summoning of a deity or the supernatural: his invocation of the ancient mystical powers." 
 + 
 +=== More on Form... === 
 + 
 + 
 +What is the shape of stories? 
 +  * Australian yarn (nasal voice, and… and… and… no… no… and then…) 
 +  * warnings (short, abrupt, distant, factual…) 
 +  * bed time stories (soothing, quiet…) 
 +  * guslari oral tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9CR5gpCwA (epic, pathos, mourning…) 
 +  * Fortune telling (intense, personalised, things untold…) 
 +  * … 
 + 
 +=== Oral - Written - Digital stories === 
 + 
 +  * Should we focus on myths and legends or 'lore' (a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth) 
 +  * difference in importance and structure of myths in oral culture (encapsulating news from other villages, blurry edges between myth and lore), to written culture (this is our shared, fixed history), to digital culture (similar to oral culture - episodic, chopped up, repurposed…) 
 +  * Reference: Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy: http://monoskop.org/images/f/ff/Ong,_Walter_J_-_Orality_and_Literacy,_2nd_ed.pdf  
 + 
 + 
 +=== Tasks === 
 + 
 +  * stage photos as a starting point to encapsulate a saying; capturing moments as they are developing. 
 +  * write a story with the same starting point (the village, the house, one of the staged photos…) and incorporate themes and questions from discussions. 
 +  * (while its raining) come up with a series of proverbs/rhymes to warn people about inconsistencies in the weather (globally - wherever you are the weather is becoming more unpredictable), and/or what would the localised versions look like (hotter, longer summers in Australia, longer, colder winters in Belgium…); Copenhagen warnings (2 degrees good, 4 degrees bad) 
 + 
 +  * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters 
 +  * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media) 
 +  * Community conversation on "the sun is different" / "the sky is red"
  
 **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems**
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 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_tsunami_animals_2.html</blockquote> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_tsunami_animals_2.html</blockquote>
  
-<blockquote>Anthropologists had initially expected the aboriginal population of the Andaman Islands to be badly affected by the tsunami and even feared the already depopulated Onge tribe could have been wiped out. Many of the aboriginal tribes evacuated and suffered fewer casualties. Oral traditions developed from previous earthquakes helped the aboriginal tribes escape the tsunami. For example, the folklore of the Onges talks of "huge shaking of ground followed by high wall of water". Almost all of the Onge people seemed to have survived the tsunami. +====Notes from 20131005 ====
  
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami#Signs_and_warnings</blockquote> 
  
-**The Storyteller and the child**+=== Conversation with Matt ===
  
-{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086807063/}}+  * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http://www.superflux.in/blog/infrastructure-fiction) and uncontrolled environment (everything that's not a city) 
 +  * Weatherlore is an interesting direction, it seems more malleable than myths 
 +  * Evolutionary psychology - how much of our worldview is based on primitive responses? to research: meaning making in humans, in contrast to animals, who primarily respond to stimuli without trying to make sense out of it 
 +    * e.g difference between a bird sensing EM field in contrast to the human responses "making stuff up to try to understand what happens".  
 +    * human responses to stimuli: physical (tend to be dampened nowadays), mental (meaning making) 
 +    * sonic experiment - pre-disaster changes in EM field 
 +    * physical responses to the environment: body weather 
 +    * (non)awareness of environmental changes: e.g. bushfire on an unusually hot day out of bushfire season in Adelaide Hills: seasons are more in flux, but people tend not to pay attention to signals from the environment. if the laws change to make an out-of-season fire instigation into criminal negligence - proof of acceptance of climate change.
  
-{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086685694/}} 
  
-{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086692854/}}+**Making Meaning** 
 + 
 +  * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them? 
 +  * The role of meaning in human thinking http://jetpress.org/v17/marsen.htm 
 +  * Levi-Strauss postulates that myths serve to mediate conflicting or dualistic elements of society and life.The symbolic mediation in myths offers inspiration for culture and culture members to heal, flourish, or accept their reality.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss http://www.phil.muni.cz/~vndrzl/indians/culture/Strauss_MandM.pdf 
 + 
 +====Notes from 20131006==== 
 +  * staged photgraphs as design fiction and/or design noir. moments of mixed familiarity and unease (e.g. eating pizza in groznjan, machine readable objects, green sky, densisty of air, prevalence of monocles) 
 +  * decay and half-life of aphorisms. persistence of relevance in proverbs. graveyard of false lore, forgotten aphorisms. 
 +  * illustrations for contemporary proverbs and the future perspectives which make them appear quaint 
 +  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nazor|Vladimir Nazor]] - Veli Jože http://www.scribd.com/doc/29242332/Vladimir-Nazor-Veli-Jo%C5%BEe 
 +  * [[various aphorisms]] 
 + 
 +====Notes from 20131007==== 
 +  * further exploration and illustration of [[various aphorisms]] 
 + 
 +{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10137492246/}} 
 +//Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.//
  
-**other...** 
  
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