This week we're talking about the ways we use technology and how people without the full use of their body or senses might have trouble with some things we take for granted. One of the things I use everyday that I think could easily be made more usable for those ...
Here's the Flash animation Scott and I slaved over for many an hour: Stick People
This was my week of learning things that had eluded my grokking them in the past: Flash, regular expressions, the terminal. Animating in Flash proved particularly painful; after struggling for four hours one day we ended ...
Here are the storyboards which Scott and I sketched out for our animation project. While the main character and his dog will actually be stick figures, the rest of the people and settings will be photographic.
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This is stfu, the video I made with Adam, Scott, & Tom; it's a slightly less morbid version of something that I thought about making awhile ago, but having the assignment for Comm Lab was the perfect impetus to actually do it. We had storyboarded ...
This week we talked about sound recording, editing, and (as if that weren't enough!) intellectual property issues, copyright, and artist compensation online. We had some great discussions in class on the best ways to compensate artists and creators when we're consuming content in bite-sized pieces.
For this week's assignment, Addie and ...
I find the debate over micropayments that went on between Clay Shirky and Scott McCloud really interesting and important. First off, this is kind of ironic - McCloud said, in 2003:
"If paying is easy and fast, then yes, of course the price matters. We’re seeing right now how 99¢ ...
Mike and I decided to merge the two options for this week's assignment, to some extent, and create something that's both a video made up of sequential images, and a comic of sorts. Click here to check it out, and then click on each video in sequence to play them. ...
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Scott and I created this composite image of the day Dubya visited the ITP wood shop with his assistant, R2D2. Kim Jong Il came along for the ride, but was grumpy all day. Oh, and Paris Hilton stopped by to sweep our floor. Nice of her, huh?
Interestingly, we ...
Here's a really common manipulation in photography: a color-enhanced sky.
Some of my favorite manipulated images of all time come from the Worth1000 Photoshop contests. Here's Pinhead from Hellraiser turned into the Mona Lisa
This is manipulation in a completely different way: Jacob Applebaum often shoots portraits on infrared film, giving them ...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1936)
Benjamin's main point seems to be that mechanically (and, presumably, electronically) reproduced art loses the aura of authenticity which makes it captivating, and hence is actually rendered more useful by their critical accessibility to everyone and political ...