Biosphere Project Readings

When we return from Spring Break we will begin work on our long project for the semester. The project will be to make a tablet comic about an element or story that reflects an aspect of Biosphere Consciousness.  To provide background for our projects I am suggesting the following short readings and viewings:

Please read this story on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-third-industrial-revo_b_981168.html

Jeremy Rifkin Ted Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_rifkin_on_the_empathic_civilization.html

Biosphere Consciousness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUWNLHbLnE

Rifkin and Diane Rehm Interview http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-09-27/jeremy-rifkin-third-industrial-revolution/transcript

Fifth Assignment



"Dream Story for I Pad"

This week we are building on last week's dream narrative. Using the synopsis of your dream as an inspiration, focus on creating a synopsis or script for a complete story. The purpose of the excercise is to develop your personal archetypes. Your original dream may form the beginning or any other part of the entire story. Make sure you have a beginning, a middle and an end. You could consider the story structure as a further developed 4 panel manga in which the central situation is introduced at the beginning of the story; the situation is developed in the second portion of the story; there is a reversal of expectation, a surprise, or change of direction which marks the climax of the story; and finally there is a denouement, in which the consequences of the reversal are shown.