David Byrne of Talking Heads has become an unlikely advocate of PowerPoint as a creative tool for getting your ideas across.<\/p>\n
Now established beyond the popular music world into\u00a0writing, theatre and film, he also produces art with a .PPT file extension<\/a>!<\/p>\n Having thought it a limited and ‘corporate’ tool to start with, experimentation has enabled him to create rich and interactive images.<\/p>\n So maybe it’s time to take a stand against the backlash on PowerPoint slideware (or\u00a0Keynote or whatever) which has been going on for a couple of years at least.<\/p>\n Why do so many people rush to join the condemnation of an efficient tool for conveying complex ideas? Why not\u00a0also have a backlash against the novel in book form? After all, that’s another highly formulaic medium where information is carried in a fundamentally limited way – using only the power of narrative – and it has many drawbacks.<\/p>\n There are rubbish novelists as well as great ones (try comparing Charles Dickens, Jackie Collins, Leo Tolstoy, Jody Picoult, Alasdair Gray, Tomas Hardy\u00a0and Honore de Balzac).<\/p>\n As well as those who regularly bore or beffudle us with endless dreadful slides there are those who influence and inspire with pace and passion. TED.com <\/a>and Pecha Kucha<\/a> have plenty of examples and we all know people who are good (or even great) exponents of the medium.<\/p>\n Having the potential to use software (as with a pen or a paint brush) should be seen as a help not a hindrance. Like David Byrne, we should\u00a0want to make the most of our chance to communicate with others and take the effort to produce great work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Byrne of Talking Heads has become an unlikely advocate of PowerPoint as a creative tool for getting your ideas across. Now established beyond the popular music world into\u00a0writing, theatre and film, he also produces art with a .PPT file extension! Having thought it a limited and ‘corporate’ tool to start with, experimentation has enabled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[102,69,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}