Red Riding Hood Remixinnovation through storytelling

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they want to live happily ever afterInnovation & Storytelling

How can a fairytale help you become a better innovator?How can you re-imagine a simple plot (aka problem or goal) in ways you haven’t before.How can you break default and innovate new story lines using different creative methods?

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The story you knowthink you

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Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, 1697Charles Perrault

Perrault Mix

Ok

Bring that food to your sick Gran.

Can’t eat her yet. Woodcutter

near by.Mmmm. Do I

smell a cake and a pot of butter?

I’m bringing food to my sick

Gran who lives at 1440 Treeside

Cres.

Where are you going?

I love slow walks in the

woods.Sucker.

Is that you Red?

xx

You’ll make a good

appetizer.

Come in. Come in.

What big teeth you

have!

xx

All the better to end this thing.

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Moral: Avoid Wolves

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The story you knowdefinately

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Children’s and Household Tales, 1812Brothers Grimm

Grimm Mix

HELP!

What’sthat noise?

x xThat was your last

meal, wolf!

I don’t like this ending

as much.

xx

You saved us!

Who’s going to help me clean up this bloody mess??

You know it.

xx

Now we can live happily ever after

again!

Got anything to eat?

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Moral: Someone will always bail

you out of your stupid mistakes

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Tools to tell talestaller

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tools for telling taller talesCreative Methods

NumerologyBack in the BoxContent on ContentConnect the ThoughtsStreaming

Cut UpsThru the Looking GlassNoun UnknownResearch and Development

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addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisionNumerology

‘Rithmatic Mix

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fun with numbersNumerology

Ask questions regarding scale & numbersDivision: What if there was only one tree, not a forest?Multiplication: What if there was a pack of wolves?Addition: What if LRRH had a kid brother?Subtraction: What if LRRH didn’t exist?

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what if there was no little red riding hood?Subtraction Story

Starving wolf is living in a shrinking habitat due to the relentless woodcutters.Driven to the edge of the forest, he scrounges in the suburbs for food.One day he is tearing through an old garbage bag to lick rotten egg shells when he feels a sharp pain

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Granny Got A Gun

The last thing he sees as he turns and falls, is an old lady in a dowdy white nightgown holding a rifle.

x xGet off

my property!

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make up some impossible rulesBack in the Box

Fail Whale Mix

Back in the BoxLimitations can be liberating (eg 140 char max)

TheFairyManWilhelm Grimm

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forcing stories through different lensesContent on Content

Rose Coloured Glasses Mix

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Star Wars as seen through the facebook lensSpacebook

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looking through the information design lensLittle Read Info

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Fairly Odd Tales

fringe finding in fairytale landConnect the Thoughts

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Creativity is justconnecting things.

— Steve Jobs

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creativity is connecting experiences to synthesize new thingsSynthesizing Connections

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prequels and sequelsStreaming

Damaged Goods Mix

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let your mind wanderStream of Consciousness

Use stream of consciousness to carry the story forward or backwardDiscuss prequel, sequel streamsWhat happened before?What happened after?

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that’s got a nice cold ring to itRed the Wolf Hunter

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Beat Poet Mix

subtitle goes hereCut Ups

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Cut

Take a few pages of writing (typed) and cut it into quarters or eighths.

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he believed cut ups revealed true meaning behind textBurroughs Quotes

“Every time you walk down the street or look out of the window, your stream of conciousness is cut by random factors.”

“You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows — a montage of fragments.”

“Consciousnes

is a cut up”

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using imposed randomness to their advantageOther Cut Up Artists

David Bowie

Kurt Cobain

Thom Yorke

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Title goes heresubtitle goes here

Red Riding Hood was hearing the big voice of the wolf say, “wolf,” but there are various kinds of wolves. He had a cold, and was hoarse.

He asked her, as Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed, now that it was dangerous to stay and talk; especially to a wolf.

Red Little Hood Riding

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Spoetry

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Super Bad Mix

role reversalThru the Looking Glass

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Bad Redwhat if Red skips Gran’s house and runs away?

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Bad Redwhat if red is “the man” and the wolf is “common people”?

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little red what?Noun Unknown

The Ol’ Switcheroo Mix

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pick on a person, place, or thingNoun Unknown

Pick a crucial element of the story and replace it with something elseHow does the story need to change?

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Little Red Sweat Pantsan avid jogaholic, Red beats Wolfie to Grans & locks him out

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Little Red Inna Hoodthe forest is replaced by a concrete jungle, the wolf by a gang

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Leia Red Riding Hoodis there anything Star Wars won’t sell out to?

x x

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The story you know

wish you’d never

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Uncovering a gruesome tale of cannibalism, lasciviousness & deathResearch & Development

Dig Deeper Mix

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this story makes the Grimm’s look downright cheeryThe False Grandmother

Wolf sometimes played by ogre or werewolfWolf leaves meat & blood for Red to eat (cannibalizes own grandmother)Wolf demands Red take off her clothes (often throwing them in the fire) and join him in bedIn some variations, Red needs to defecate and is tied to a rope to go ‘do her business’. She gnaws thru rope and escapes naked into the forest

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Moral: Life is messed up. Be prepared to improvise.

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Challenge the stories you know...

[insert your project here]

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…to create new ones

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tools for telling taller talesCreative Methods

NumerologyBack in the BoxContent on ContentConnect the ThoughtsStreaming

Cut UpsThru the Looking GlassNoun UnknownResearch and Development

quick recap

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"Running Wolf" (detail)84x34” Woodcut print on stretched canvas

by Dennis McNett, 2009

wolvesCredits

"Wolf" (detail)10x18" Woodcut print on paper

Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth, 2007.

"Black Wolf" (detail)Woodcut by Todd Sherman

"Eddie the Wolf" (detail)by Eddie Hulbert

"spirit of the wolf" (detail)by alicepopkorn on flickr

"How to draw a cartoon wolf" (detail)© How-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com 2010

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"Little Red Riding Hood" (detail)889mm x 673mm Oil on canvasGeorge Frederic Watts, 1890

little red riding hoodCredits

"Little Red Riding Hood" (detail)Shoe Ad for Melissa Plastic Dreams

Agency:BorghiErh/LoweIllustration:Platinum

"Red Riding Hood" (detail)Ken Wong

"A Wolf with Progress & Poverty" (detail)Punch, 1884 (political cartoon on Henry

George & the single tax movement)

"Little Red Riding Hood" (detail)Gustave Doré, 1863

"miss hood" (detail)by xstuntkidx on flickr

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"Basil’s Studio" (detail)Heidi Celeghin

miscellaneousCredits

"Creativity is Subtraction" (detail)by Austin Kleon

"Garfield Minus Garfield" (detail)by Dan Walsh & Jim Davis

"Spiral Galaxy NGC 300" (detail)by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

"Spacebook Facebook" (detail)by dullhunk on flickr

"Fail Whale" (detail)by Yiying Lu

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"Ate Wolf Zoen Graffiti" (detail)in New York City from TAGSAREKNOWN.com

more miscellaneousCredits

"The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Tee"10" x 18" Woodcut, Edition of 50

Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth, 2007.

"Little Red Riding Hood" (video)Length: 3:00 Music:Slagsmålsklubben

Tomas Nilsson, 2009

"Little Red Riding Hood And Other Stories"1997, 30 minutes

written & directed by David Kaplan

Little Red Riding Hood Finger Puppet Setby claraclips on Etsy

"Early Spring"by edamamepress on Etsy

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"The Woodcutter" (detail)34.9 x 50.5cm Watercolor over graphite

Winslow Homer, Private collection

a few more miscellaneousCredits

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