RSS feedThe “I found some of your life” post that did the rounds a few weeks ago was amusing. Not because of what happened, but because of what could be. Some background, a guy found a camera and didn’t know who it belonged to, so he posted one photo per day online and added his own candit comments about each photo. Eventually someone came forward and the site was taken down, but not before it did the rounds of the blogosphere, and finally made it to Slashdot, where someone put the pieces together and found other photos online of the same people.
Anyway, the interesting part is that this is effectively an old impro game we call Pop-up Storybook, where each scene is a frozen piece, improvised by on stage players, with an off stage player providing an improvised commentary. It is tempting to take a couple of dozen photos from a night out, and have some of Sydney’s top improvisers provide a running commentary online. There are sites for photoshopping contests, and photo caption contests, why not Pop-up Storybook?
Which brings up the issue of what other impro games could be played online?
Of course if you’re in Sydney, you could always see the real thing with yours truly, tomorrow night at the Clarence Hotel. 🙂