8 posts tagged “documentary”

We added two more clips from Pandora's Box, the current TV episode, because they're just so fun to watch.  Check them out, and then check out your assignment in the most recent blog posting.

Also: This week we're re-running Habeas Schmabeas, the radio episode that recently won a Peabody Award.  You can listen to it on a real, honest-to-goodness radio this weekend (as opposed to an ipod or computer).  Here's the episode description.

And here are those clips.  Let us know what you think!

In this episode we explore the unpredictable things that can happen when you bring a new idea into the world.  We explore three stories of consequences that follow from human beings' doing what we do best: poking our noses everywhere, fixing things that may or may not be broken, and opening our big mouths.

Pandora's Box debuts tonight and airs all week.  Find out when.  Watch it, then come back here to tell your own Pandora's Box stories.

Your Assignment:
Tell us your stories about good ideas with unintended consequences.

Listen to Ira's description of the episode from last week's podcast:

Watch these clips for a bit of inspiration:

Growth Spurt: Stories about people doing something for the very first time, without waiting to worry about whether it's a good idea.

Click here to read more detailed information on this episode.

Your Assignment: Tell us your story about putting on blinders and jumping right in.

Here are a few clips to inspire you and get you thinking about the topic:

The Cameraman: In this episode we explore how life changes when you look at it through a camera, and how you change behind the camera too.
(more details on this episode here)

Tell us your stories about how cameras can change a situation, or make you see things differently.

God's Closeup: stories of people trying to get closer to God, using mechanical instead of spiritual means. Read detailed descriptions here.

Check out these video clips and share your own stories about trying to get closer to God, and trying to bridge the gulf between the devout and non-believers.

Feel free to leave a comment directly on this post or you can write about it on your Vox blog and send it to the This American Life group!

My Way: Stories about people who stubbornly defy conventional wisdom, with mixed results.   Read detailed descriptions here.

Watch these clips. Get inspired... Then tell us your stories about stubbornness, its benefits--and its costs

Reality Check: Three stories of people hatching a plan and believing they've made a dream, big or small, come true. Instead, they're snapped back to reality: an experience that, as everyone knows, can be unpleasant.

Click here to watch this episode on Sho.com for free, then come back and share your own Reality Check story on our group blog!

Each week on This American Life ®, we choose a theme and put together a bunch of stories on that theme. For the next few weeks, we're asking for stories from you, as well. 

Each week we'll put up a theme or question that's central to the next episode of the TV show, and we'll ask you to tell us stories that explore that theme or question.  These are TV stories, so we'd love to see your tales told in video clips, but feel free to upload audio, images or the written word as well.

Once you've got something, post it to your Vox blog and send it to the group. Then, come back to discuss entries from other TAL fans.  We'll reveal our own entry every Thursday at 10:30pm on Showtime, in the form of our latest episode.  Feel free to talk about that, too, as well as our weekly radio shows.

So, Step one: Join the group blog.

Step two: Watch our first episode for free on Sho.com

Step three: Come back and share your thoughts.