Building a Smarter Planet. A Smarter Planet Blog.

Chris creates new and slow media in the classic storytelling tradition, using simple narration, illustrations, music, and found sounds. The narratives are meant to unfold slowly, following a kind of wandering trajectory into the past and present. He often writes from a studio apartment on Jane Street in the far West Village of New York City. He records the narration inside a closet in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Ulster County, NY. When is the best time to record according to Chris? After the morning newspaper hits the front porch, the farmer breaks from tractering, and when the air is heavy with the breath of flowers.

The Tale of New York City; The Tale of a Smarter City; The Tale of a Smarter Planet; The Tale of Vern Watts; How It Works: The Way We Work; How It Works: Analytics.