These notes, from the 18 September 2008 TFOTS/MEML meeting, collate some of the earliest ideas related to the Million Story Building project. The “ideas to date” section refers to concepts we were trying to develop for SMS-based text cues for improv filmmaking projects. The other snippet here, “city story notes” seems primarily concerned with notions of database-driven cinema archives and the question of motivation (for example, “NASA” refers to a suggestion someone had to make the CityStory archive something that would be sent into space on a flash drive or similar media, the idea being that this would be an inspiring motive for people to participate in the crowdsourced-cinema project we were cooking up). Ultimately, the SMS text-cue experiments and the CityStory crowd-cinema experiment would merge into a single project.
TFOTS
18 Sept 08ideas to date:
-concrete visual, chain letter, xquisite corpse (“cinerenga”)
-interpretive emergence, charades (“scary face”)
-i ching-style one liners (“oracle”)
-fictional undergrad/blog poster (“zombie”)
-in/out, peach boy (“moviebits”)-city story notes:
-public good
-see “flickr commons”
-fifth element
-a permanent archive
-NASA?
-permanent installation in lucas building