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Archive for October, 2008
I Believe
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Peter Beard
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Attached are a couple of links to a photographer – Peter Beard. I came across his work for the first time in agallery in SoHo a few years back and have started to look at his work again. He’s a very interesting personality with a history as a fashion photographer. His first love is Africa. [...]
documentary blog
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hello all. well, this seemed quite obvious but, I came across this blog today. Surprise, its called The Documentary Blog. Attached is the link. Perhaps you all know this and I’m just slow in the blogging world!
http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/
new media confessional
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I’ve decided to make a confessional for my final new media project. As you enter the darkened space you will walk up to the monitor. The internal web cam will reflect your face on the monitor. The image will be zoomed into to focus on your eyes. You will then make your confession. The computer [...]
blood memory, errol morris article, gray gardens..
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
hi all. i wanted to comment on the concept of blood memory that Lila raised last week. it struck me very personally. as a child of a mother who was a holocaust survivor, my sister and i grew up with a full awareness of her trauma and loss, before we were old enough to know [...]
Documentary Video Games
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Hello All,
Just a reminder that this Thursday, October 30, Kodak Lecture Series
present it’s second speaker of the 2008/09 year. New media researcher,
Cindy Poremba will speak about documentary videogames. Poremba is a
digital media researcher, creator and curator investigating documentary
videogames through Concordia University’s Doctoral Humanities program.
She holds a Master of Applied Science degree in Interactive Arts from
Simon [...]
Mystery Solved
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As some of you know already I have been sending you emails for naught since October 21, when you all mysteriously dissappeared from my course and from blackboard. Apparently we were given the wrong course code — DM 8104 — now we have the right one — DM 8106 but no one informed us when [...]
What’s in a Doc? – Reflection
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Hey Gang,
For my what’s in a Doc, I took a look at Shelby Lee Adams ever-evolving imagery from Appalachia, Kentucky in a documentary titled, “The True Meaning of Pictures”. It was directed by Jennifer Baichwal (2002).
Generally, I was happy with how the presentation went. I was brief with my spoken word, and tried to show [...]
Project Proposal
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My idea is to play with the images that are common in mainstream media representations of Colombia (my country). I will use images of violence, drugs, and so on, in contrast with images made by tourism industry in Colombia to promote travelers to come there. I will contrast those images with the clips from soap [...]
Lab 4: In Class Project Development
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Today we will work on our final projects in class.
First we will finish off with last class.
Here is our second patch and third patch that we made last time.
Here is a utility that will help to select files from a folder with Max…useful for selecting from a changing repository of media clips, and a common [...]
