Red Riding Hood Remix is a primer for breaking out of a default story and finding 'tools for telling taller tales.' Creative methods are explored for innovating a 'story' (or project) by approaching it in different ways and from different perspectives using Jason Theodor's (unpatented) Creative Method and Systems.

1. Red Riding Hood Remix
innovation through storytelling

2. Introductionyou
& thank-
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3. JasonTheodor.com
you can call me jted
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4. Twetiquette
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#lrrh
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5. Innovation & Storytelling
they want to live happily ever after
How can a fairytale help you become
a better innovator?
How can you re-imagine a simple plot
(aka problem or goal) in ways you
haven’t before.
How can you break default and
innovate new story lines using
different creative methods?
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6. think y
ou
The story you know
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7. Charles Perrault
Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, 1697
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8. Bring that
food to your
sick Gran.
Ok

9. Can’t eat her
yet. Woodcutter
near by.
Mmmm. Do I
smell a cake and a
pot of butter?

10. Where are
you going?
I’m bringing
food to my sick
Gran who lives at
1440 Treeside
Cres.

11. I love slow
walks in the Sucker.
woods.

12. Is that you
Red?

13. You’ll
make a good
appetizer.
xx

14. Come in.
Come in.

15. What big
teeth you
have!

16. All the
better to end
this thing.
xx

17. Moral : Avoid Wolves
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18. definat
ely
The story you know
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19. Brothers Grimm
Children’s and Household Tales, 1812
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20. What’s
that noise?
HELP!

21. That was
your last
meal, wolf!
I don’t
like this ending
as much. xx

22. You saved us!
Who’s going to help
me clean up this You know it.
bloody mess??
xx

23. Now we can live
happily ever after
again!
Got anything
to eat?
xx

24. omeone will always bail
Moral: S
of your stup id mistakes
you out
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25. taller
Tools to tell tales
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26. Creative Methods
tools for telling taller tales
Numerology Cut Ups
Back in the Box Thru the Looking
Glass
Content on Content
Noun Unknown
Connect the
Thoughts Research and
Development
Streaming
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27. Numerology
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
‘Rithmatic M
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28. Numerology
fun with numbers
Ask questions regarding scale & numbers
Division: What if there was only one tree,
not a forest?
Multiplication: What if there was a pack
of wolves?
Addition: What if LRRH had a kid brother?
Subtraction: What if LRRH didn’t exist?
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29. Subtraction Story
what if there was no little red riding hood?
Starving wolf is living in a shrinking
habitat due to the relentless
woodcutters.
Driven to the edge of the forest, he
scrounges in the suburbs for food.
One day he is tearing through an old
garbage bag to lick rotten egg shells
when he feels a sharp pain
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30. Granny Got A Gun
The last thing he sees as he turns and
falls, is an old lady in a dowdy white
nightgown holding a rifle.
Get off
my property!
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31. Back in the Box
make up some impossible rules
Fail Wha le Mix
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32. Back in the Box
Limitations can be liberating (eg 140 char max)
TheFairyMan
Wilhelm Grimm

33. Content on Content
forcing stories through different lenses
Coloured Gl a sse s M i x
Rose
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34. Spacebook
Star Wars as seen through the facebook lens
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35. Little Read Info
looking through the information design lens
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36. Connect the Thoughts
fringe finding in fairytale land
Fairly Odd Tales
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37. Creativity is just
connecting things.
— Steve Jobs
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38. Synthesizing Connections
creativity is connecting experiences to synthesize new things
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39. Streaming
prequels and sequels
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40. Stream of Consciousness
let your mind wander
Use stream of consciousness to carry
the story forward or backward
Discuss prequel, sequel streams
What happened before?
What happened after?
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41. Red the Wolf Hunter
that’s got a nice cold ring to it
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42. Cut Ups
subtitle goes here
B eat Poe t Mix
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43. Ups
Cut ups were popu-
larized by Naked
Cut
Lunch author William
S.Burroughs.
Take a few pages of writing
(typed) and cut it into quarters
Author or eighths.
William S.
Burroughs
Often new words
Tape it together
and phrases are
the rough spots.
limited editing
as poetry with
then retype it
to smooth out
invented.
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44. Burroughs Quotes
he believed cut ups revealed true meaning behind text
“Consciousnes “You have seen a person cut in
two by a car, bits and pieces of
street signs and advertisements,
is a cut up” reflections from shop windows —
a montage of fragments.”
“Every time you walk
down the street or look
out of the window, your
stream of conciousness
is cut by random factors.”
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45. Other Cut Up Artists
using imposed randomness to their advantage
Kurt Cobain
David Bowie
Thom Yorke
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46. Title Little Hood Riding
Red goes here
subtitle goes here
Red Riding Hood was hearing the big voice of
the wolf say, “wolf,” but there are various
kinds of wolves. He had a cold, and was hoarse.
He asked her, as Riding Hood took off her
clothes and got into bed, now that it was
dangerous to stay and talk; especially to a wolf.
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47. Spoetry
In drawback wicker emblem, or by
rectify elasticity physiology,
his countless fever margarine as
rugged that rhyme knitting
secretarial realisation to pump
speech, bespoke challenging
clinical in no seventeen frontal
as clan announce saline fiesta
mischief cartography.
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48. Thru the Looking Glass
role reversal
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49. Bad Red
what if Red skips Gran’s house and runs away?
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50. Bad Red
what if red is “the man”
and the wolf is “common
people”?
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51. Noun Unknown
little red what?
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52. Noun Unknown
pick on a person, place, or thing
Pick a crucial element of the story and
replace it with something else
How does the story need to change?
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53. Little Red Sweat Pants
an avid jogaholic, Red beats Wolfie to Grans & locks him out
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54. Little Red Inna Hood
the forest is replaced by a concrete jungle, the wolf by a gang
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55. Leia Red Riding Hood
is there anything Star Wars won’t sell out to?
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56. xx

57. w ish yo
u’d nev
er
The story you known
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58. Research & Development
Uncovering a gruesome tale of cannibalism, lasciviousness & death
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59. The False Grandmother
this story makes the Grimm’s look downright cheery
Wolf sometimes played by ogre or
werewolf
Wolf leaves meat & blood for Red to
eat (cannibalizes own grandmother)
Wolf demands Red take off her clothes
(often throwing them in the fire) and
join him in bed
In some variations, Red needs to
defecate and is tied to a rope to go ‘do
her business’. She gnaws thru rope and
escapes naked into the forest
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60. Mora l: Life is m essed up.
Be prep ared to im provise.
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61. Challenge the
stories you know...
[insert you r project here]
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62. …to create new ones
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63. quick recap
Creative Methods
tools for telling taller tales
Numerology Cut Ups
Back in the Box Thru the Looking
Glass
Content on Content
Noun Unknown
Connect the
Thoughts Research and
Development
Streaming
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64. thank-you
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65. sli deshare.ne
t/jte d
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66. @jte d
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67. Credits
wolves
"Running Wolf" (detail) "Wolf" (detail) "Black Wolf" (detail)
84x34” Woodcut print on stretched canvas 10x18" Woodcut print on paper Woodcut by Todd Sherman
by Dennis McNett, 2009 Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth, 2007.
"How to draw a cartoon wolf" (detail) "spirit of the wolf" (detail) "Eddie the Wolf" (detail)
© How-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com 2010 by alicepopkorn on flickr by Eddie Hulbert
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68. Credits
little red riding hood
"Little Red Riding Hood" (detail) "Little Red Riding Hood" (detail) "Red Riding Hood" (detail)
889mm x 673mm Oil on canvas Shoe Ad for Melissa Plastic Dreams Ken Wong
George Frederic Watts, 1890 Agency:BorghiErh/Lowe
Illustration:Platinum
"miss hood" (detail) "Little Red Riding Hood" (detail) "A Wolf with Progress & Poverty" (detail)
by xstuntkidx on flickr Gustave Doré, 1863 Punch, 1884 (political cartoon on Henry
George & the single tax movement)
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69. Credits
miscellaneous
"Basil’s Studio" (detail) "Creativity is Subtraction" (detail) "Garfield Minus Garfield" (detail)
Heidi Celeghin by Austin Kleon by Dan Walsh & Jim Davis
"Fail Whale" (detail) "Spacebook Facebook" (detail) "Spiral Galaxy NGC 300" (detail)
by Yiying Lu by dullhunk on flickr by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope
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70. Credits
more miscellaneous
"Ate Wolf Zoen Graffiti" (detail) "The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Tee" "Little Red Riding Hood" (video)
in New York City from TAGSAREKNOWN.com 10" x 18" Woodcut, Edition of 50 Length: 3:00 Music:Slagsmålsklubben
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth, 2007. Tomas Nilsson, 2009
"Early Spring" Little Red Riding Hood Finger Puppet Set "Little Red Riding Hood And Other Stories"
by edamamepress on Etsy by claraclips on Etsy 1997, 30 minutes
written & directed by David Kaplan
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71. Credits
a few more miscellaneous
"The Woodcutter" (detail) original source unknown original source unknown
34.9 x 50.5cm Watercolor over graphite
Winslow Homer, Private collection
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