Tag Archives: visual

My favorite signs from Rally for Sanity and/or Fear

By Steve | Published: October 30, 2010

I looked at all 300+ signs submitted to the Huffington Post (I couldn’t stop!). Here are my favorites. Tweet

Posted in Opinion, Visual storytelling | Also tagged health care, language, Opinion, President Obama, public opinion, racism, rhetoric | Leave a comment

Imagine all the people: Living life in health

By Steve | Published: October 16, 2010

Four conferences over two weeks … there’s so much swirling in my head that I could write a post for each of eight different topics. But tonight I landed on a central theme after watching the video of Regina Holliday describe the painting she created during the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. She captures [...]

Posted in Health movement, Marketing and PR, Visual storytelling | Also tagged change, communication, culture, health care, marketing, PR, public opinion, research, storytellimg, video | Leave a comment

How I suffered an actual storytelling injury

By Steve | Published: September 30, 2010

When my siblings and cousins get together we tell stories about those idyllic days 40 years ago when we frolicked and dodged death and dismemberment at The Cabin. Even our in-laws tell the stories — and they weren’t even there. The Cabin was a tiny A-frame that sheltered six adults and 10 kids at a [...]

Posted in Visual storytelling, What I figured out | Also tagged conversation, culture, family, my stories, parenting, personal brand, storytellimg, teepee | 1 Comment

Somebody walking over my grave?

By Steve | Published: August 17, 2010

My sister, Teresa Krizman, saw this tombstone while visiting Crested Butte, Colo. Chills down the spine. Literally. BTW, for a Yahoo community discussion about the expression “BLANK walked across my grave,” go here. Tweet

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I love my old friend’s photo blog

By Steve | Published: August 14, 2010

I’ve kept track of Essdras Suarez via his Facebook posts. Until today, however, I hadn’t followed the link to his photo blog. What a treat. A Boston Globe photographer, he pulls a broad range of assignments: from cupcake food shot to Haiti earthquake relief. It’s impressive: he captures exquisite moments, whether firing away on the [...]

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Family teepee project: Too many chiefs; not enough Indians

By Steve | Published: July 11, 2010

I love my family, for all its weirdness. My aunt plans to live in a teepee in the badlands on the Colorado-Utah border, so of course the family got together to build it. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had an instruction book and lots of opinions. The canvas fit the tangle [...]

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Poet brings vision statement to life

By Steve | Published: December 23, 2009

Tears of pride welled up yesterday as I watched a corporate video. A corporate video! Diane Gage-Lofgren, our national VP of communications and PR, had asked a poet/performance artist to bring life to our communication team’s new vision statement. A stroke of genius. I will forever have a visual and resonant image to add soul [...]

Posted in Applied stories, storytelling theory, Visual storytelling | Also tagged authenticity, career, communication, culture, emotion, health care, leadership, openness, organization, Organizational communication, PR, rhetoric, storytelling, storytelling theory, storytelling tips, teams, video | Leave a comment

Can you visualize deforestation?

By Steve | Published: December 16, 2009

90 acres of trees are cut down each minute. A striking statement, but what does it mean to me? This video by Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) helped me grasp the enormity of the statistic. The haunting melody by Brian Eno also transfixed me. Others who have blogged/tweeted about this also mention [...]

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Video storytelling is a whole different game

By Steve | Published: December 6, 2009

I’ve been working for a couple of years on my video technical skills. In the past few months, I’ve concentrated more on the storytelling part. I have a long way to go, as my Vimeo portfolio will attest. Kai gives Granny a knitting lesson from Steve Krizman on Vimeo. What I’ve learned so far: Video [...]

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The word for what I feel about Obama: Disappointed

By Steve | Published: November 29, 2009

I’m trying to be patient. But WTF: first we line up behind Russia and China in favor landmines, and now we’ll be escalating war? Tweet

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