public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags visualarts & design

16 November 2006

Visual Studies Fine Arts Videos 2002-2003

advanced students' video projects online, from Univ of Toronto

lens culture: contemporary photography magazine

by 4 others
Photographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.

The Eye Page

an exploration of eye structures in nature

creativebits | mac design community

by 4 others
a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X

Visual thinking school on Squidoo

by 1 other
basic concepts broken down into useful small steps, with many visual examples to guide process. Web 2.0 in that it provides for interaction and author's introduction to sections.

Seeing Is Believing?

another page of visual illusions with explanations

illusions.html

a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these

Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004

visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"

Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"

Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.

14 November 2006

Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems

uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects

"Introduction to Poetry" -- Ben McGhee

more video and text animation, simple and effective -- 53 sec.

The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem

video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition

Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web

visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult

13 November 2006

then there were 30 DAYS OF RAIN

a northwest animation based on rainy Portland, experienced from an interior

Not Fooling Anybody: Bad Conversions of Storefronts

vernacular conversions of old IHOPs, KFCs, BurgerKings, etc. to another commercial use; a wonderful collection of tacky architectural facades

if people were gone from the earth

the timeline of how the earth would recover if people were gone, a graphic

12 November 2006

Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons

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

11 November 2006