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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, | + | * Dialogues ( Demeter & Persephone - harshness of content, gentleness of voices, related to natural and cultural disasters |
| * staging photos around the house with emerging characters (storyteller, | * staging photos around the house with emerging characters (storyteller, | ||
| * 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..." |
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| - | //edible | + | //Medicus curat, natura sanat. | Edible |
| - | {{>http:// | + | {{>https://secure.flickr.com/ |
| - | //stories, storytelling and plant mythology// | + | // Svi cvjetovi budućnosti su u sjemenu sadašnjosti// |
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| + | //Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom | ||
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| - | // // | + | //Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji // |
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| - | **other...** | + | //As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it (de Saint-Exupery) | Musings on stories, ethnobotany and plant mythology// |
| + | For translations see [[various_aphorisms]] | ||
| === Weather lore === | === Weather lore === | ||
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| * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs | * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs | ||
| - | * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…" | + | * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…" |
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| + | * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather. | ||
| + | * 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. | ||
| Who are the characters and what are they doing in contemporary weather lore? | Who are the characters and what are they doing in contemporary weather lore? | ||
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| === Divination and invocation in storytelling === | === Divination and invocation in storytelling === | ||
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| Divination: descriptive, | Divination: descriptive, | ||
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| === Oral - Written - Digital stories === | === Oral - Written - Digital stories === | ||
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| * Should we focus on myths and legends or ' | * Should we focus on myths and legends or ' | ||
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| === Tasks === | === Tasks === | ||
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| * stage photos as a starting point to encapsulate a saying; capturing moments as they are developing. | * stage photos as a starting point to encapsulate a saying; capturing moments as they are developing. | ||
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| * write a story with the same starting point (the village, the house, one of the staged photos…) and incorporate themes and questions from discussions. | * write a story with the same starting point (the village, the house, one of the staged photos…) and incorporate themes and questions from discussions. | ||
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| * (while its raining) come up with a series of proverbs/ | * (while its raining) come up with a series of proverbs/ | ||
| * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters | * 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) | * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media) | ||
| + | * Community conversation on "the sun is different" | ||
| **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | ||
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| + | ====Notes from 20131005 ==== | ||
| + | === Conversation with Matt === | ||
| + | * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http:// | ||
| + | * 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 " | ||
| + | * 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: | ||
| + | * (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. | ||
| + | **Making Meaning** | ||
| + | * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them? | ||
| + | * The role of meaning in human thinking http:// | ||
| + | * 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:// | ||
| - | + | ====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:// | |
| - | + | * [[various aphorisms]] | |
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