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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags presentation & culture

01 December 2006

Edward Tufte home site

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lots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."

27 November 2006

Imagining the Internet

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popular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids

22 November 2006

soundtoys.net -

ejournal; interactive web soundtoys, artworks and related texts

21 November 2006

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.

20 November 2006

Fixings Shadows - Still Photography

work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

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very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

18 November 2006

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

13 November 2006

"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy

a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available

12 November 2006

StumbleUpon

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Firefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"

11 November 2006

Владимир Гвоздев и gvozdariki

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check out witty animations from a Russian animator, simple, elegant

06 November 2006

The Mirror Project: Adventures in Reflective Surfaces

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collection of images from people who photographed themselves in reflective surfaces; since this is a favorite tactics of lovers of light, many images are well composed and intriguing

PDNOnline - Legends Online Archive

interactive galleries of work of major photographers

03 November 2006

Sal Randolph

attractive web site with art and essays by artist who lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures

23 October 2006

The Propaganda Remix Project

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old WW2 posters with contemporary messages; very well thought out designwise; print out for your office door

21 October 2006

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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

18 October 2006

Imaginary Museum Projects - Tjebbe van Tijen

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innovative uses of image and text in a wide range of projects, many cultural and historical, to create an uniquely online museum-like experience

17 October 2006

graphic illustration of data about US

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I learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.