http://pursuitofperishablethings.org brooke bryan Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/things/our-want-of-stuff-is-fundamental-but-complicated/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/things/our-want-of-stuff-is-fundamental-but-complicated/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:57:47 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=260 One could argue that things have been more important than people since very early in human history. Women have been traded like cattle, gifts and dowry have preceded humanistic concerns, and man has, despite what we would like to think of ourselves, a certain sort of innate brutality when it comes to our actions against [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/things/our-want-of-stuff-is-fundamental-but-complicated/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/on-the-stories-april-and-frank-wheeler-told-themselves/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/on-the-stories-april-and-frank-wheeler-told-themselves/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:10:28 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=256 In “Revolutionary Road,” April and Frank Wheeler are a young married couple driven by ideas. The ideas they hold are of essence and forms, conceptions of things and states and realities that—for them—hold truth, greatness, and validity inherently within them. This essentialist thinking permeates the entire novel, as the couple desperately tries to avoid the [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/on-the-stories-april-and-frank-wheeler-told-themselves/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/on-capturing-the-full-scope-of-an-evanescent-vapor-with-an-audio-recorder/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/on-capturing-the-full-scope-of-an-evanescent-vapor-with-an-audio-recorder/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:20:27 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=232 The other morning my daughter, who is nine (and is biologically and by choice a night owl) was having her typical trouble getting up and ready for school. She insisted on clinging to me in the name of being cold, to which I said — “Get up! Get dressed! Dressing is a warming!” She didn’t miss [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/on-capturing-the-full-scope-of-an-evanescent-vapor-with-an-audio-recorder/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/place/place-makes-a-people/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/place/place-makes-a-people/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:37 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=225 The introduction to the book “Community and the Politics of Place” begins with a discussion of the similarities and differences between the Montana constitution and the US Constitution. The author sets up the idea that place (that is, the rolling plains and majestic mountains mentioned in the document) had much to do with how and [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/place/place-makes-a-people/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/digital-storytelling-for-sale/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/digital-storytelling-for-sale/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:14:51 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=160 Being a bit of a techie and a humanist who has a thing for folklore and narrative in all its various guises, I am connected to a bunch of “digital storytelling” folks on Twitter. In fact, they started to find me just after the moment all the transcription services found me… Anyways, I have been pondering [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/story/digital-storytelling-for-sale/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/past/an-ancient-bouquet-2/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/past/an-ancient-bouquet-2/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:55:13 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=176 The last workbook of Greek and Roman Culture asked us to write an essay on some of the most influential ideologies that we had encountered while journeying through ancient Greece and into the Roman Empire. We were asked to “pluck a bouquet” of insights that we found applicable today. I usually have a zero tolerance policy [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/past/an-ancient-bouquet-2/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/a-poem-for-pantagruel/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/a-poem-for-pantagruel/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:37:39 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=143 Institutions crumble under the big foot of man But when he sits; rests, too long he builds them tall by hand ]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/a-poem-for-pantagruel/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/community-funded-journalism/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/community-funded-journalism/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:26:51 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=132 I am concerned with ways that communities can reclaim and redefine what “news” is. I think this is the future. ]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/community-funded-journalism/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/copyright-is-a-perishable-thing/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/copyright-is-a-perishable-thing/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:13:31 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=113 It occurs to me that I haven’t really defined ways to consider perishable things; what is perishable in Plato’s mind is not what is perishable in my mind. For starters, I would never lose my stories or my sentiment. No republic, no cave; rocking the foundations of antiquated copyright ought to be a fairly simple [...]]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/copyright-is-a-perishable-thing/feed/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/oddly-disturbing-and-strangely-compelling-sleepybird-video/ http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/oddly-disturbing-and-strangely-compelling-sleepybird-video/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:47:42 +0000 Brooke http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/?p=119 Sleepybird rocks. Seek them out. ]]> http://pursuitofperishablethings.org/work/oddly-disturbing-and-strangely-compelling-sleepybird-video/feed/