The readings for this week heavily focused on the importance of storytelling, whether that be through the process of worldbuilding, a medium like a graphic novel, or a documentary. These different forms continuously allow us to think differently and gain a deeper understanding of interdisciplinary topics.

We based our Scalar post off of A Joyful Noise, where Sun Ra says, “every song I write tells a story. A story that humanity needs to know about. In my music I speak of unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things. No two songs tell the same story. They say that history only repeats itself, but history is only his story. You haven’t heard my story yet. My story is different from his story; my story is not part of his story. Because his/story repeats itself, but my story is endless. It never repeats itself; why should it? A sunset does not repeat itself, neither does sunrise…” (Sun Ra, A Joyful Noise). We wanted to specifically focus on this quote to underscore how we, as media makers and creators, should use our platforms to highlight and tell narratives that may have been missed, erased, overwritten, or not brought to light. 

For this week’s project, we decided to split Sun Ra’s quote into five separate pieces, creating a “visual haiku” that emphasizes each part of the quote as its own piece. We are focusing on four specific examples: three stories from the past and one story that may be represented in the present or future.

References: 
Alexander, E. (2020, February 10). Why the Friends vs. Living Single Beef Really Matters. Zora. https://zora.medium.com/why-the-friends-vs-living-single-twitter-beef-really-matters-ce54d9559457

May, S. (Ed.). (2016, December 30). Who Was Katherine Johnson? Retrieved November 07, 2020, from https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4

TV Passport. (2020). Living Single Cast [Image]. Retrieved from 
https://www.tvpassport.com/series/living-single/53429