how's this for an online audio focused valentine's day special?
this american life collaborated with the google doodle team that works on the novelty day, season, occasion specific drawings of 'Google' for their homepage, to feature a series of short love themed stories for valentine's day.
I couldn't actually access the page from my computer (it kept defaulting to Google Aus!) but you can see the interactive series and listen to all of the stories here.
I really loved this series! I loved the funny intro and outro and the story selection and animations. my favourite is probably 'mr right' for the story and the images (I love anything heart shaped...)
and here are some interesting behind the scenes details:
- ira glass on how the collaboration came about, the necessity of having original scores created for the stories and having the stories mixed for laptop and computer speakers.
- a video from the google doodle team about illustrating the series and working with ira (on meeting ira at the google offices one of the illustrators says "I'm not even sure why he was here?")
- and even more short stories on the this american life's online valentine's day feature
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