sigur ros is coming out with a movie about playing shows in their homeland. i am not usually a fan of films about bands, but the imagery is breathtaking in this trailer. the editing, cut from mountain scape to village to ice drift is haunting. i would like to see the film … very effective.
low fi. low tech. and a bit rough around the edges. yeah!
click here to read a narrative and documentation of painting a rifle named Grace with a cammo job. now THAT’s what i call DIY. he’s from raleigh and recommends jerry’s art-o-rama for supplies. (i do too btw.)
while looking through CCSAs undergraduate curriculum for Meredith’s teaching seminar, i came across the mention of a thesis completed by a recent CCA undergrad. the small images that were offered as evidence of the work provided a glance into what seemed to be an elegant, breathtaking design. the topic of the thesis is stated as the process of developing a complex system that explores what it might be like to visualize music, based on the idea of synesthesia. the award winning portion of the thesis appears to be the artifcact; a book. i would like to know what the writing portion looked like as well. is it in the book? is it interlaced? is there a PDF to read? perhaps it is the artifact only since it was an undergrad project. it is unfortunate that the small thumbnails offered as a sample are all i could find. maybe i will be able to find her email and contact her directly. on an initial googling, this proved that its going to be more than a five minute endeavor. we need a design database.
Trans-sensing—Seeing Music
Wen-Hua Hu (Graphic Design ‘05)
cca mention: http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2006/studentdesignreview
award from ID: http://www.idonline.com/sdr06/best.asp
Japan’s leadership race hots up
language choice IS everything. is this related to a signfied/signifier/myth relationship that exposes undercurrents in online editing. or, is it just a typo?
I stumbled across this person’s site while reading some how-tos stuff on instructables.com. i admire his tenacity and effort in his advertising cover-up project. the spirit of his work is great. or at least i think so.
Headlines really get sometime. I think I have mentioned before that RSS feeds have created an interesting new challenge for online new editors. How do you get your readers’ attention in 3-5 words, with no page hierarchy or type styling? Sometimes, they come out sounding a little odd:
Syria Says It Repelled Israeli Warplanes
This head line is followed by another odd phrasing:
“JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 — Syria’s air defenses repulsed Israeli warplanes that violated Syrian airspace early today…”
Serious topic, I realize. But there is something odd about using the word “repulsed” or “repelled” when speaking about war planes. Later in the article, it is said that the two nations have been exchanging “have been exchanging calming messages through third parties”. I find this statement just hilarious. Calming messages? Like excerpts from mediation tapes or whale songs? How about recorded sounds of stream waters trickling through the forest? Again, serious topic, but the language choice … words are everything. Especially when calming messages might not be enough to prevent a war.
I read this article yesterday. Then watched Little Miss Sunshine that very night, confirming all suspicions.
Quirked Around.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200709/quirk
Excerpt: “We’re drowning in quirk. It is the ruling sensibility of today’s Gen-X indie culture, defined territorially by the gentle ministrations of public radio’s This American Life; the strenuously odd (and now canceled) TV sitcom Arrested Development; the movies of Wes Anderson; Dave Eggers’s McSweeney’s Web site; the performance art, music, and writing of Miranda July; and the just-too-wacky-to-be-fully-believable memoirs of Augusten Burroughs.…”
last year my graduate class worked with the content in these bibliographies on a data organization project. i did not realize they were online as PDFs. if you are looking for a good place to begin research on one of these areas, try these lists.
ok so the title of this post is a really bad pun. however, its apt. i am staying chapin, south carolina this weekend where the mosquitoes are rampant. for the hours surrounding sunset, its best to be inside or wearing a massive amount of repellent. or, run really fast. my interesting factoid of the day, if you do get bitten, is that if you rub the inside of a banana peel on a mosquito bite, it reduces the swelling and irritation. so, the next time you are in south carolina in the late summer or camping and making banana boats around the fire, cut off a little of the peel and rub it on your insect bites for relief. who knew! now lets check in on that giant banana project in texas…
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