This quick 7 image flickr set tells (abstractly) the narrative of Brave New Maine’s creation. 1) The inspiration behind the project. 2) Our localized concept logo. 3) The system built roughly in web form (The entire website is still a work in progress) 4) A submitted story by a user. 5-7) The concept realized in…
This video was created as both a how to guide and wrap up for the process of creating Brave New Maine! I hope you enjoy it. We tried to go with a quirky “fun” feel for the video, because the issues we are dealing with are often very heavy, and we don’t want it…
Brave New Maine (.co) has seen some major changes over this past weekend! We’ve added: A New Community Polling Section where there will be daily polls so you can have your voices heard! An emotion rating system for submitted events! The ability to upload multiple images (into slideshows), multiple audio files and even video! We…
I’m happy to announce that the long awaited Brave New Maine project is finally live! Bravenewmaine.co is the home of our very own future energy storytelling collective! Go to BRAVE NEW MAINE right now! Make and account and start imagining our future, better. View the Process: Everything Brave New Maine
Estranged was a response to the book L’Étranger (if I’m remembering correctly, I’m not familiar with the source material). It is told from the viewpoint of a girl who seems entirely wrapped in a cocoon of technology and “together aloneness”. In it a number of life changing events happen to here, and she becomes more…
Alternate Reality Game An alternate reality game is a form of narrative told using the real world as one of it’s vehicles. The story itself is driven and determined most heavily by “player” involvement. From an outside perspective, i.e. non-players, they could easily confuse that game for a true to life story that is actually…
It’s interesting to think about how you might use connections you already to to facilitate a project like this. The strength of this project I think is in it’s broad scope and general appeal, as well as multiple levels of engagement. With that said here are some brainstormed ideas: -Durham Broadcast News Channel – Family…
To help out Shoot Maine and get nice locations for their film database, I’ve compiled a bunch of photos from the Little Field Ornamentals Trial Garden. Check them out below!
So, I started building the actual framework for the Brave New Maine concept envisioned mainly by Sean and other other members of the Brave New Maine Team. I decided, as per my previous research, to develop the functionality in Drupal. To clarify what was achieved: 1) Visitors can register as a user on the Brave…
Thomas: Aggregating: Aggregating means compiling, and in a sense, our entire project consists of compiling, but instead of compiling hard data, we are instead compiling stories, which are basically extensions of opinions and beliefs. By compiling a large group of stories regarding the future, we are essentially gathering a collective idea of what the future…
My main role in the Brave New Maine project is to design/customize an existing system that people are going to use to upload their content. To that end I have mainly stuck to technical research and research into different CMS. After looking around for a system that has the functions that I want I found…
I) Weeks 1 & 2 (Oct 10-24): – Create the “narrative framework” by researching current-day problems and future projections relating to Maine. – Develop individual stories to explore how they can be connected and displayed, and to jump start content generation. – See if other content creators are available to help create “seed” or future…
1) Project Title Brave New Maine 2) Group Members Thomas Dollof, Sean O’Neil, William McEnery, James LeVasseur 3) Describe the main goal or outcome desired for your project Create an online presence which allows and promotes user generated content in regards to future energy scenarios. This collaborative network will offer some sort of incentive to…
Decentralization: A Crowdsourced Oceanet For context: The Original idea There are a few ways that this idea can be moved into a lower energy profile, but also a more robust system as a whole by decentralizing the production of the content. Instead of a having a team of writers curating the content and then releasing it…
Finding Nemo: The Reality Series To increase academic interest in the oceans you need to aim your efforts at current students and would be students, but also think about the long term interest in the science. As a many to many “solution” or rather partial solution, I propose the creation of a “social” network but…
Problem 1 Solution B is the new media solution. It is also the solution that I prefer because it allows a sort of collective knowledge which might end up being greater than the sum of its parts. It also allows for the project to grow beyond the original conceived notions and allows for “emergent phenomena”.…
Monsanto and the Carnival of Corn Leveraging Preexisting Media Infrastructure to Engage Corporations Monsanto and the Carnival of Corn was largely a staged leveraging of media in which the participants set the stage themselves. Students and Activists created a fake press release impersonating Monsanto stating that the government of Mexico had approved genetically modified seeds…
Issue 1: Cleaning Up The Androscoggin River Grandfathered Pollution For most of my life, I’ve lived very close to the Androscoggin River, and for the same amount of time it has always been horribly polluted. If a large amount of the pollution that is currently causing the river ecosystem harm is being caused by the…
MIT Place Pulse Quantitative Data on Urban Perceptions Place Pulse is an project that seeks to use people’s perceptions to gauge the larger relative perceptions of cities, by offering opinions of different photos. Users can select from a number of different questions all which ask “Which place looks…” followed by different qualifiers like “livelier”, “safer”, “wealthier” or even…
Viral in its most general definition is anything that results in the replication or spread of an object.1 In the context of New Media, viral is a term applied when an idea or movement spreads through a network (i.e. The Internet or any of its subcommunities) and sees a massive increase in popularity over a…