Minutiae is the story of a man that has become too busy with life and raising two small children to have any big stories to tell. This makes digital storytelling the best means for Mark Rubin-Toles to illustrate the ridiculousness of his morning routine to an outsider. His digital story was created in June of 2007 in Tuscon, AZ and it exists solely to walk you through Mark's daily routine. Mark utilized photographs, videos, and music to encapsulate every detail of his morning and is edited with a sense of dry humor that follows exactly with his voiceover. Among the details of Mark's life, I found the quotes from his son Max to be the gems of this video, as well as his slightly cheesy use of quick edits that follow as he fills his pockets for the day ahead of him.
When Bix Gabriel moved away from her home in Hyderabad, India, she never would have thought that would lose touch with her roots. But as time passed without her in Hyderabad, the city transformed into something totally different. It was no longer the city of her childhood and she came to realize that she could never return. Bix utilizes nothing more than still photographs and the sound of chimes to tell the story of her
Home... in Past Tense. This story engages me because I find the idea of returning to somewhere familiar, but it not being as you remembered to be a fascinating commentary on the notion of "progress" and what exactly that word truly means.
Minutiae is the story of a man that has become too busy with life and raising two small children to have any big stories to tell. This makes digital storytelling the best means for Mark Rubin-Toles to illustrate the ridiculousness of his morning routine to an outsider. His digital story was created in June of 2007 in Tuscon, AZ and it exists solely to walk you through Mark's daily routine. Mark utilized photographs, videos, and music to encapsulate every detail of his morning and is edited with a sense of dry humor that follows exactly with his voiceover. Among the details of Mark's life, I found the quotes from his son Max to be the gems of this video, as well as his slightly cheesy use of quick edits that follow as he fills his pockets for the day ahead of him.
When Bix Gabriel moved away from her home in Hyderabad, India, she never would have thought that would lose touch with her roots. But as time passed without her in Hyderabad, the city transformed into something totally different. It was no longer the city of her childhood and she came to realize that she could never return. Bix utilizes nothing more than still photographs and the sound of chimes to tell the story of her Home... in Past Tense. This story engages me because I find the idea of returning to somewhere familiar, but it not being as you remembered to be a fascinating commentary on the notion of "progress" and what exactly that word truly means.
