Tim Burton Telling Crowd-Sourced Tale via Twitter

By Brenna Ehrlich  on 
Tim Burton Telling Crowd-Sourced Tale via Twitter
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Ever had the burning desire to collaborate with Tim Burton? Well, now you can, as the director/producer/artist/writer has taken to Twitter to create a crowd-sourced tale to promote an upcoming museum showing of his work.

The Twitter project is titled "Tim Burton's Cadavre Exquis," which translates to "exquisite corpse." An exquisite corpse is a game adored by the Surrealists in which a group of people add phrases to a slip of paper in turn to create a story. Images can also be used to create eclectic beasts.

That's pretty much how Burton's Twitter experiment functions. Burton has started off the game with a sentence detailing the adventures of "Stainboy" and is asking people contribute a line to the story with the hashtag "#BurtonStory." The best tweets of the day are chosen to continue the story, which will run from today until December 6.

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