Running With Scissors

Really cool multimedia site built for the upcoming film Running with Scissors.

I love the design, interactivity, and use of text, video, and photos. It’s engaging and easy to use, and it gives the user a lot of information. The scrapbook idea has been done before, but here it is done very, very well- and the interactivity adds an extra element to it that makes you feel like the story is alive, and fun. It’s kooky, like the story.

I was interested in this movie and the book because I was listening to an NPR interview with Margaret Robison, aka Deirdre Burroughs, Augusten Burroughs’ mother. Augusten renamed himself from Chris Robison to Augusten Burroughs at 18. Augusten wrote the book about his life and portrayed his mother as a bi-polar fame-obsessed poet (I haven’t read the book yet, I’m just repeating what I’ve heard). Her friends were upset by the way she was portrayed. Her last quote in the interview was, “This book, it is part of [Chris's] life. It’s not a part of my life.”

A pretty good attitude, I think.