Archive for May, 2010

Topic for Mimetic Monday #MIM 05.24.10 is “CHAGRINED.”

The first storytellers were friends at the campfire.

Recently I was reading–and thoroughly enjoying–a piece of classic literature that had an unfortunate effect of changing my perception on the principle of trust in the telling of a story.  The classic story was well written and engaging me so thoroughly with suspense that I often stopped breathing.  As the excitement built, I’d have to throw the book down and gasp for air.  I was heavily entertained by how much I could both dread and anticipate the tragic finale to this story, but then something happened that completely ruined my ability to even pick up the book again. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry no Mimetic Monday today:(  Busy busy.

Here’s a great film instead:

balance from burcakita on Vimeo.

Self-expression vs. The Search for the Divine

“The Voyage of Life” paintings herein were created by Thomas Cole

While I was studying in New York I pondered a great deal on the men whose lives or work I thought were “original.”  The more I read about them, the more I learned that the ones whom I admired for both their artistic contribution and their personal lives never thought of themselves as being “original” at all.  Neither did they have any thought of martyrish “self-expression.” And those who made themselves slaves to their self-proclaimed “originality,” however significant their contribution, often lived torturous existences in order to achieve it.

It was a source of constant confusion for me.   Read the rest of this entry »

Guidelines for contributions to Mimetic Monday #MIM

Mimetic Monday is a weekly storytelling activity in which anyone can participate.  In order to do so, first check my website for the storytelling topic at the end of the preceding week.  Once you have the topic, create a story in any format (prose, drawing, video, interactive, poetry, etc.) and post it to your own personal webspace.  Once you have posted it, please email the link to that particular post to me at (bryanbeus at gmail) with “Mimetic Monday (and relative date in format xx/xx/xxx)” in the subject.  Then, once I have assembled and posted your link with the other contributors, please copy paste that list of contributors to your own post.

I will not be filtering stories based on quality, however I will filter out any post that does not meet the following criteria:

Entries should:

• be created specifically for and clearly PERTAIN to that week’s #MIM (Mimetic Monday) topic

• NEVER have been posted before the date that the particular #MIM topic was announced

• have “Mimetic Monday (with optional hash-tag #MIM)” in the heading along with the date and topic

• be BRIEF taking an audience member no longer than five minutes to read/watch/listen/play.

• should be APPROPRIATE for people and children of all ages (MPAA rating G or PG)

• should have a description of what Mimetic Monday is, or a link to this description.

That’s it!