I would like to take the time to bring everyone's attention to someone who's pure brilliance has been astonishingly overlooked. I love her style, her demeanor, her rambling manner of not really explaining anything or being educated on, well, anything that would give her a correct and valid opinion. Therefore I would like to bring her to the attention of the rest of the world be nominating her for the very sought after prize of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
Genius can take many forms, and sometimes that form is complete airhead.
I love stories. It's part of why I enjoy market research so much. I love getting people to tell me what their point of view is and why. Usually that explanation comes down to a story - I think this because this happened to me or because this is what I go through every day. It's kind of fun.
Now with story based podcasts like The Moth, This American Life, and Story Corps I get a weekly does of stories, which keeps me somewhat satiated, but I'm always looking for more.
Recently Story Corps did something special. They took a few of their classic episodes and animated them. Here are a few of my favorite results (the last one especially):
You can see all of the videos on Vimeo. There aren't many, but hopefully they'll do more in the future.