topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT/PHOTO Girl walks in to a bar: Mouldy ceiling, sticky floor Broken mic, hormones galore Fluro lights, smoky faces Man in the corner dealing aces. The darkness awakens you. Now they know your name You’ve played the game You’ve built a bed in the sticky nest […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland People in their late 20s and 30s have all seen this picture with the radio cassette on the Web. It most certainly reminded them memories of the time they used to own a radio cassette. I remember spending afternoons at my friend Sarah’s […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland With the PenTales Life Lessons Project we want to give 60+ years old and seniors a voice on the Web 2.0 (check out the call for stories here). I interviewed my grandad a couple of months ago, and within an hour I learned […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland Seniors trying to figure out how PhotoBooth works Check out these hilarious videos of this funny old couple discovering PhotoBooth! It makes me both laugh AND marvel at how much change their generation has lived through. I remember explaining to my grandad how […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty”
topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales Event themed “Making Ends Meet” The email simply reads, “I’ll pay you three hundred and fifty dollars. Three hundred and fifty dollars.” I lie down and I think about this. I think about a three, a five, and a zero. […]
topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” I’m happy that you all made it here tonight and am especially relieved to see so many non-liquid edibles. It makes filling my sandwich bag-lined pockets a little easier. Ha, you can laugh if you […]
topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: VIDEO
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! “I think it’s best if we adopt the “tracing paper” approach – that is, applying a sheet of tracing paper to your letter, and writing my answers on top. With one of those […]