Merit Coba

Storytelling: The old testament

Introduction The other day I happened to look at the College Tour. The College tour is a Dutch program in which the host Twan Huys invites famous people to talk about what made them famous and allow the audience(students mostly) to ask them questions. In this particular episode the guest was John Cleese. During this interview someone…

Merit Coba

08/04/2015

stories

bible, old testament, stories, story, storytelling, yaweh, youth

Relay for life 2015: The future of your money.

This year the American Cancer Society(ACS) organizes another Relay For Life(RFL) charity event in Second Life. The impact of this event can be estimated from their site: “As of July 2014 RFL of SL ranks number 17th out of 5000 teams worldwide in donations receive.We have brought in over 2 million US dollars to help with the…

Merit Coba

21/02/2015

stories of the real, Traces of a Second Life

ACS, cancer, Criticism, funding, Relay for life, RFL, second life, sl

Story-telling: The hobbit – The battle of the five armies.

Yesterday I saw the Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies, and wrote a short scathing critique of the movie on metacritic. This third episode is simply a long series of fights interspersed with some dialog. However, besides giving criticism I want to learn from such movies, so I am going to write a few short notes the…

Merit Coba

07/02/2015

story-telling

movies, stories, story, storytelling, the battle of the five armies, the hobbit

What’s on Molyneux’s mind?

Criticizing the Bible is all to easy. It might be a good motivation to write for some, but I don’t find it interesting by itself. Therefore I am rewriting a post that I had in the make about the bible, as I want to focus on storytelling and narrative instead of what a colleague of mine called bible…

Merit Coba

05/02/2015

stories of the real

anarcho-capitalism, cato the elder, fdr, freedomain radio, Molyneux, Philosophy?, rhetorica, taxes, taxes suck, the end of the world, the state sucks

Announcing the 2015 Spread The Love Expo!

Originally posted on SLGBT Alliance: This Valentine’s Day, we invite you to join us for The Second Annual SLGBT Alliance Spread the Love Expo– a FULL SIM two-week shopping event and fundraiser. This year’s event will benefit The Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Shop for a good cause this season as 25 incredible designers come together…

Merit Coba

02/02/2015

Traces of a Second Life

equal right, lgbt, love expo, second life

Story-telling: Jurassic Park 3/3: Patterns, Patterns

Welcome to the third part of my posts about Jurassic Park in which I am trying to delve into the story as to learn from it. Perhaps this is useful, or perhaps it is not. As already mentioned there is little to no character development in this movie. It is simply not that kind of…

Merit Coba

01/02/2015

stories, story-telling

Jurassic Park, movie, patterns in movies, patterns in stories, Steven Spielberg, stories, story, story-telling, storytelling

Second Life Scrapbook: Discovering Innsmouth(once more).

Innsmouth needs saving. That is what I gather from the save Innsmouth tip-jars in Second Life. Innsmouth is a place in Second Life that is named after the place of the same name from the novella ‘The shadow over Innsmouth’ by H. P. Lovecraft, and it promotes the works of Lovecraft and offers a place for people who like to role-play…

Merit Coba

24/01/2015

stories

Cthulhu, innsmouth, lovecraft, second life, sim, sl, virtual world

Story-telling: Jurassic Park part 2/3 : The T-rex, the raptors and the naked monkeys.

Welcome to part second part of the movie Jurassic Park in which I am trying to analyse the story-telling. In a previous post I discussed the first fifty minutes of the movie including the introduction of the central characters. In this part I am going discuss the remaining two hours of the movie which might conceivably…

Merit Coba

24/01/2015

stories, story-telling

dinosaur, jeff goldblum, Jurassic Park, Laura Dern, movie, raptors, sam neill, Steven Spielberg, stories, story, story-telling, t-rex, tales

Storytelling: Jurassic Park(part 1/3): god, the devil and lunch!

I write reviews, but not because I want to criticize things. Actually I like to learn how to write and tell stories, so that is why I write them. On one level to learn to write the reviews themselves and on another level to analyse the storytelling of that which I am writing about.…

Merit Coba

22/01/2015

stories, story-telling

dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, Laura Dern, Michael Crichton, movie, nerd, nerds, Part 1, raptors, Richard Attenborough, sam neill, samuel jackson, Steven Spielberg, story, storytelling, t-rex, turannosaurus

Henry and Kristel prepare for Doomsday

“There are fine lines between referencing something, borrowing from it and beyond that: by duplicating the original.” Kristl said. “Hm? Where are you going with this?” Henry sort of woke up mid sentence.. “Take this line for instance, it consists of letters.. and these are hardly original..as we only got twenty six of them and virtually…

Merit Coba

22/01/2015

movie, review

doomsday, henry and kristl, movie, movie review