public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag history

02 November 2006

filmscreed

film blog with lots of images regularly posted

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.

30 October 2006

I Photograph to Remember

Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

24 October 2006

course outline on photography and place

using photography as disciplined mode of exploration, expressing ideas

23 October 2006

19 October 2006

Making Sense of Evidence

strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources--many kinds of historical materials discussed; useful in most teaching areas

18 October 2006

Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

by 1 other
always looking for new ways to interest students in certain kinds of projects involving visual narrative, autobiography, documentary

Movement by Grigorio Agamben

author traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."

The Photography Channel

collection of audio/slideshows by skilled photographers, often in the context of photojournalism

Jahn: Homepage

major figure in narrative theory has much work available online

lecturelinks of Mary Klages

extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought

syllabus05: Visual Studies and Visual Culture

follow up on the links to his slide shows, with images from history of art; also links to online materials of interest

17 October 2006

Sleepy City | urban photography

by 1 other
photographically deconstructing the urban environment

Vectors

Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"

essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them

graphic illustration of data about US

by 2 others
I learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.

Anxious Libraries

wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic

architechtural, music, media blog

by 2 others
well written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space

16 October 2006

Cinema=Jean-Luc Godard=Cinema

by 1 other
site with many links to online essays about Godard

Audio slide show: Bluegrass music's man of steel

example of how to incorporate personal history, music, and slides in portrait of dobro player and singer; also shows effectiveness of short, under three minute, audio slide show documentaries.

15 October 2006

11 October 2006

atomic blast photos

photos of an atomic test taken at one-millionth of a second

10 October 2006

09 October 2006

screenonline

by 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv

05 October 2006