Here is a BBC video based on the Hamar, the group being talked about in the Lydall and Strecker piece. http://bit.ly/fZPtEG
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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
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.
Screen Capture Software
CS160 students use this to capture videos of their iphone programming assignment and I think it’ll work for some of you in class.
http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html
Another software training site
A friend told me about Lynda.com, and although I haven’t yet subscribed to it, I am seriously considering plonking down the cash for the Final Cut class. Just wanted to bring it to your attention!
Power of Video Editing and Distorting the Truth
Great article on NPR about Ron Shiller, the NPR executive who resigned left after an embarrassing undercover video came out about him last week. This story talks about exactly how the video editing manipulated what was said through simple non truths or withholding information.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134525412/Segments-Of-NPR-Gotcha-Video-Taken-Out-Of-Context?ft=1&f=3&sc=17
In class, over the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked about the ethics and privacy issues of showing people in photographs and the various workarounds that people have come up with.
Yesterday, I was reminded about something that I saw on the Cooper website. I can’t find the detail that I was looking for, but this is similar (http://www.cooper.com/#approach:scenarios).
It looks like they take a photograph (with the person in it), and then draw over the person. I believe that one of the reasons that they do it to make the image more generic for prototyping purposes, but I think it’s a great way to show a person within an environment without making that person identifiable.
Of course, this technique depends on your drawing skills, but I wanted to put it out there as an option.
Ways of looking
A blog post about an experience with making meaning out of the juxtaposition of visual images within a particular context.