a feeling in time all over the place /notdone1

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more by Jonathan Harris.

his project "the whale hunt" reminds me of "norman roman", an email-storytelling-group-project i started with friends back in 1999 and never properly executed.
the setup: 7 people would write each other emails the way we used to write letters: as kind of diary entry, glimpses on our lives, not so much in the form of communicating information like email usually is.
we could chose whether to take on a fake personality with an invented life or to be ourselves or to do a mix.
depending on who i would write to, i would use a different tone or perspective to describe the same event, highlighting different aspects or details of the event, depending on how close i am to that person, what that person's interest are, what kind of humor he or she has, what we have shared in life so far.
i was the only one in the group who knew everybody, the others knew between 2 and 5 other people in the group, we lived in different places, spoke english and/or german.
certain events would affect all of us, like new year's eve eg. some could affect just some of us, like sunny wheather or a plane accident. some of the events were fixed in advance, some would be made up as we went along - or actually happen. the line between fiction and reality would blur.
those different threads of communication would then be laid out in such a way that the reader could follow one person with all his/her conversations, one set of conversations (between just two people), one event and how each person wrote about it or a mix of all of this.
so we would be writing and reading at the same time, taking what the others just wrote as an inspiration for ones own writing and vica versa.
my friendes thought, this was all to confusing and time consuming, so we tried out a reduced version for a little while and then lost interest. the rocketmail account we used for it was later on closed without us realizing, so now it is lost forever.

todo: random-dinner-marathon

ps: i don't really know what google wave is, but it sounds similar to his universe thing.
thanks, nora, for pointing out the whale hunt