I used to help out with a comics studio called Sunbros Studios, and this year for the comics convention C2E2 I returned to the booth with Beijing opera-style Monkey King face paint, to emulate the main character of their book Monkey Fist (an adaptation of the Journey to the West tale). Afterwards, I met up …
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May 15 2015
A Month Of… Genius!
The Next show will be a Month Of… Genius! 1225 West Belmont July 8th 7:30 Food 8:00 Stories Bring your genious stories, or just come to enjoy the food and listen to our wacky tales. This month I’ll be introducing a new cookie recipe that I really hope you like! A special kind of bite …
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May 13 2015
20 Chicagoans Map Chicago
“Excuse me!” “Excuse– oh I’m so sorry ma’am, you’re eating.” “Yes, okay! I’m doing a quick little project here. Can you draw me a map of the Chicago neighborhoods?” For this month’s prompt, A Month of Maps, I briefly considered revisiting a Ghost Bikes of Chicago project, before I stumbled on this crowd-sourced world map, …
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May 13 2015
My House, My Mind
The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. ~ Neil Gaiman
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May 12 2015
Journey to the End of the Night Chicago June 2015
It’s happening! Journey to the End of the Night! The most fun you’ll have all summer. June 13th, 2015 Facebook Invite An unusual thing happened this year, the spring Journey was cancelled. It went out in a facebook post Story Luck didn’t notice and then a week or so later we got a phone call …
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May 11 2015
Story Luck’s Map to Ideals and Emotions
Join us on Wed. the 13th where will discover all about maps through our special round table storytelling open Mic.
This month I worked with Lynda Joy, Alexander, Bonnie Fan, and a slew of strangers to tackle the group task: Create your own Map. We built this map
This is the finished product.
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Apr 20 2015
Destroying Things
This week, I’m going to highlight a piece of writing that was done for A Month Of… Moving On: Destroy something of Sentimental Value. This was written by Jacqueline Brogdon. Who worked for us last summer and runs a great travel blog. This task, and this show proved to be my favorite A Month Of… …
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Apr 13 2015
Monday Storytelling Links
Since this is A Month Of… Maps: Create Your Own Map.
I thought I’d search out and link you to some collection of alternative maps.
The first I ran into was this short Esquire slide show.
Which despite what the above image might suggest, is predominately a collection of Data Maps.
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Apr 09 2015
A Month Of… Maps!
Maps
Create your own map.
We had a good show last night, new folks came, and we welcomed a new host Bonnie Fan.
The stories varied wildly and it felt like a group of friends having a ruckus discussion gently guided by the joyous panda that is our fearless leader Duo.
After a debate, and several switching of votes, next month’s theme was decided.
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Apr 06 2015
Storytelling Links of the week
Storytelling links of the week! Each Monday we will be posting a week’s worth of Storytelling links to peruse and digest. These links will be a curated by various members of the Story Luck team and will represent a wide range of genera. The only criteria for these picks is that they be about narrative, …
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