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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
This is the video Mr. Wiseman produced for his class to see. It was an Animoto video, but we're using http://photopeach.com.
Enjoy!
This is the video Mr. Wiseman produced for his class to see. It was an Animoto video, but we're using http://photopeach.com.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The book no one can read: Why can’t anyone decipher this mysterious manuscript? | The Hot Word
The book no one can read: Why can’t anyone decipher this mysterious manuscript? | The Hot Word
What a fascinating object. What if you were to write a book in a code that you and only one other person knew? What if that book were to fall into the hands of scientists hundreds of years later? What would it look like to them, this great mystery which you created? What if you didn't leave a key? I suppose the ultimate issue here is that we humans like a mystery. We will spend inordinate amounts of time and energy figuring out what something mysterious is and means, even if there is no valid reason for doing so.
In the end, this makes me want to create my own mysterious text and put it on a bookshelf in a library somewhere and see who picks it up and what becomes of it forty or fifty years from now. :)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, November 11, 2010
2D Design Competition in photos
View the article here... "A tale of 2D designers (photos)"
This is a really interesting photo piece about a design competition called "the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament." Each region of the US and cities on several other continents have similar competitions for digital designers and illustrators which pits them against the best of each other in a 15 minute race to create a great design which fits into the criteria set forth by the judges.
The article is mostly about the designers (you have to read the story with each picture as you click on the next photo) but there is a heavy technology strand in the writing. The author of the captions that accompany the photos, one Edward Moyer, tells the tale of how the creators use technology to create their final products. Even the designer who starts with a paper sketch transfers his drawing to photoshop to finish rendering the final design.
I like the way the story is told in captions. The photojournalistic piece of the article is only as effective as understanding what is going on in each picture and the background and side stories that are occurring in the three scenes depicted in the 26 photos.
In all, this was a good view into the technological world of design for readers of CNET, a technology news site.
This is a really interesting photo piece about a design competition called "the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament." Each region of the US and cities on several other continents have similar competitions for digital designers and illustrators which pits them against the best of each other in a 15 minute race to create a great design which fits into the criteria set forth by the judges.
The article is mostly about the designers (you have to read the story with each picture as you click on the next photo) but there is a heavy technology strand in the writing. The author of the captions that accompany the photos, one Edward Moyer, tells the tale of how the creators use technology to create their final products. Even the designer who starts with a paper sketch transfers his drawing to photoshop to finish rendering the final design.
I like the way the story is told in captions. The photojournalistic piece of the article is only as effective as understanding what is going on in each picture and the background and side stories that are occurring in the three scenes depicted in the 26 photos.
In all, this was a good view into the technological world of design for readers of CNET, a technology news site.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Let's Begin
This is a blog for me to use to demonstrate to my students how they should work on the blog assignment that we're beginning in the second quarter of my Senior English class.
The assignments are posted on my web site at http://www.mariemontschools.org/becksfort.
The assignments are posted on my web site at http://www.mariemontschools.org/becksfort.
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