I always read them… apparently Ellen featured it on her show… they are the Missed Connections on Craigslist, and Katy Newton (of Not Just a Number fame) has done a great multimedia piece on one of the most interesting sections on Craigslist.
Every day, tiny stories spring up from the Southern California maze of freeways and neighborhoods and into the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Most don’t have Hollywood endings, it’s just hopeful residents trying to meet, reconnect, share moments in some way. For the lucky few, lives change. Every week, video-journalist Katy Newton tracks down the faces behind the posts.
I haven’t been as good about keeping up with multimedia as I once was, so I apologize if this has been done before, but I really enjoyed this soundslides by Michael Morain who works here at the Des Moines Register. I thought it was simple but effective and enjoyable (probably more so if I could read music).
Des Moines native Linda Robbins Coleman compared part of her “Journeys” to the sounds of “a peg-legged pirate who happens upon some kind of Spanish festival.” Listen to the excerpt she described – and follow along with a simplified version of the printed score. (Or hear the real thing at the Des Moines Community Orchestra concert on Sunday.)
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