Week 11: Common Craft

I’m kind of obsessed with Common Craft, the website that makes the “____ in Plain English” videos. It reminds me about what McLuhan said about how we treat the new mediums like the old mediums. Common Craft uses cut out drawings and felts to ‘plainly’ explain how different things work.

My favorite video is “Zombies in Plain English”. I sent it to everyone I know.
When it comes to learning how certain technologies work, reading about it can be completely useless to me. I love to use different programs and applications, but the technology behind them usually go right over my head. Computer technology can be really uninteresting to me unless someone shows me or explains it to me using examples and metaphors. Common Craft goes just far enough that I don’t feel like I’m being treated like an idiot, just more like a kid, which is fine because it helps.
I like the look of different genres being mixed together too. Paper cut out drawings and felts, hands moving the drawings around, ect.