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at 5th Avenue and 92nd Street, New York, NY. Click here to download a coupon for a $2 admission discount to the exhibit

Two lots of awards news to cheer me this morning:

From The Times online: A gothic tale about vampire hunters has become the perfect Hallowe'en winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007, it was announced yesterday. Marcus Sedgwick won the prize with his sinister story, My Swordhand is Singing, about a woodcutter and his son who fight the legendary undead in the forests of seventeenth-century Romania. (My review is here)

For more details about the prize visit Bookheads or Booked Up

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And in the non-Book Awards category David Tennant and Doctor Who both won awards in their categories in last night's National Television Awards ! Alas that Freema Agyeman couldn't make it a hat-trick.

... cultural organizations to offer exhibitions and programs around the theme of “Open Books.” This collaboration will provide many opportunities to consider the art of children’s book illustration and literature from many perspectives; to enjoy films based on popular children’s books; to see original art work from favorite authors and discover the work of less familiar artists; and to engage in a summer of rich reading. Collaborative offerings include the Katonah Museum of Art’s exhibition Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art, the Hudson River Museum's exhibition Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay, the Westchester Arts Council’s exhibition Seeing Stories: How Picture Book Artists Imagine, which highlights Westchester artists and is curated by KMA Trustees Yvonne Pollack and Jerry Pinkney; the Westchester Library System's summer program Get a Clue @ Your Library; and a series of films adapted from children’s books at the Jacob Burns Film Center. Each participating organization will offer visitors a pass that will entitle them to free admission or a member discount at the other locations.

Break out your walking shoes NYC, it is time for the biggest (and in my opinion) best party of the year, Museum Mile. Head up to 5th avenue and 82nd street for free admission to nine museums, including the Metropolitian Museum of Art. In honor of this summer ritual we have excerpted a piece about the MET from Grove Art Online, written by Eric Myles Zafran. Get some history on this NYC landmark before you hit the jam-packed subways.

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I first met Josh Goldblum when he cited this website in an academic paper he wrote for the 2007 Museums and the Web conference, entitled "Considerations and Strategies for Creating Interactive Narratives."

After reading that mouthful of an essay, I realized Goldblum could teach you interactive storytelling a hundred times better than I ever could.

Goldblum runs Blue Cadet Interactive, a firm that specializes in building complex, interactive digital stories--he is setting the standard for how we use digital graphics, photographs, audio, and video to create more complex stories on the web.

This week, he's teaching us the fine art of interactive storytelling in my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. Click here to read the complete interview.

In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.

Jason Boog:
How can a fledgling journalist build something more interactive than a simple slideshow? How do we make better interactive narratives? 

Josh Goldblum:
[Readers] know when a lot of work and craft went into a project. They can also generally see when something is based off a template. Continue reading...

"The road was all ice. And all I could think about was, "How did I ever survive this?" Because I was dressed in the heaviest jacket with sweaters, with hat - and I was freezing! And I was there as a child with a little blanket and thin prison uniform and - and I made it. It's... hard to believe."

That's Judge Thomas Buergenthal describing his return to the site of the concentration camp of Auschwitz, nearly 55 years after he survived the Jewish Holocaust in Europe.

His story--along with the memories of countless other death camp survivors-- will be preserved forever in digital format at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The virtual exhibit includes photographs, audio, text, and Flash illustrations to help new generations remember one of the worst chapters of human history. 

Josh Goldblum (the pioneering writer who founded the design firm, Blue Cadet Interactive) helped design this complex story. Goldblum is our special guest this week, teaching us the fine art of interactive storytelling in my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions.

In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.

Jason Boog: 

 
Josh Goldblum:
I first became aware of the “Life After Holocaust” project while I was working with the Holocaust Museum on a separate Ripples of Genocide project. Continue reading...

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http://www.saltandpeppershakermuseum.com/index.asp
(Thank you, Amy Schimler)