public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags education & design

November 2006

Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons

another how-to site for a skill useful for film and videomakers' storyboard making

ZEN

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a meditative site that quietly provides a new way to experience sound, image, temporality, space, and body

The Getty

museum site has many important photography exhibits, some with audio commentary

Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality

attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

Solution Watch - Your descriptive source of solutions

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"reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services"; valuable because of plethora of new Web 2.0 software; explanation of how to use it gives clues as to if you would want to try new software.

Invincible Cities

photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps

basic tips by J.D. Lasica on preparing for doing an audio/slideshow in narrative form, perhaps a first person recollection, tightly crafted. Makes a good handout.

October 2006

if:book

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a blog from the Institute for the Future of the Book, where much interesting work on screen reading and publication is going on

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts

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artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet

Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site

very useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing

September 2006

the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking

clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers

IDEA Photographic | After Modernism

a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations

August 2006

Physics Flash Animations

fascinating mixture of visual art and science

July 2006