Here is a BBC video based on the Hamar, the group being talked about in the Lydall and Strecker piece. http://bit.ly/fZPtEG
Monthly Archives: April 2011
a game
This is maybe a side project — a paper-based game that is loosely based on interviews done with San Francisco residents about space and neighborhood.
Invisible Bike Race Game
Sample Communique Cards
I am not sure… what it is, exactly, in terms of visual research? If anything.
It’s derived from research but it’s not an academic report obviously. It has a made-up narrative that I think relates to mental maps, but is also kind of silly. It’s not an especially visual thing in itself, but hopefully can be used by other people to create their own visual narratives and explore how they think about San Francisco.
Creative Photography
I saw this link on FB and thought that it raised some interesting questions about metadata. None of these include data so therefor it is up to the viewer to interpret what is presented. Yet when we consider the purpose behind the presentation other than to show off one’s cute children we can consider that a lot more is invested in the creation of this project. As we later read the rationale for the pics at the end of the photos this becomes even more evident.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/a-father-who-creatively
Point and Shoot Cameras
P&S cameras used by pros. A lot of iPhones (with favorite apps listed) but others as well.
On the Veracity of Images
The Colin Powell piece reminded me of this — excerpt from “Our Man in Havana,” in which Alec Guiness (the man in Havana; a vacuum cleaner salesman) is hired as a spy for the British and pressured to produce something. So he does. But not in the way that his handlers intended.
Video and Transcript of Colin Powell’s Presentation to Security Council
to go with the Finn reading: transcript, audio and color slides of Powell’s speech.
Pictures of Japan and Haiti
NPR’s discussion with — and photos by –NPR photographer David Gilkey, who covered both disasters. Note how he talks about asking permission and respecting the situtation.
Notice the pairings of images. Also, it’s interesting that he did Japan in B&W, Haiti in color.
Finally — isn’t it interesting that National Public Radio sent a photographer to these events?
Digital Video Editing Tutorial
I didn’t know about this:
Once you have gotten the digital video of the film you will be commenting on, you will need to both get the specific clips you want to talk about and compress them. We recommend you use a tool like MPEG Streamclip (PC/Mac). Important: When using a Mac or PC and working with video editing/conversion tools like MPEG Streamclip (or any of the others listed above) it is highly recommend that you make sure to install Perian (for the Mac) or the K-Lite Codec Pack(for the PC)—both of which are free utilities that add a series of codec recognition tools across the various video applications on your computer.
What MPEG Streamclip will allow you to do is select and trim exactly the clips you want to discuss from the longer scenes. Doing this in MPEG Streamclip will save you time and energy before importing it into a video editor like Moviemaker or iMovie, both of which bloat video unnecessarily and take a lot more time and resources to work with. Note that you may have to cut a longer scene up into various clips that you will then edit together in your final version. Also, when converting the clips, make sure they are the same aspect ratio as the original, and that you are saving them in the proper codec for your video editing software. (Note: MPEG Streamclip will convert files to Windows media format.)