Here's a photo essay about the Great Depression.

Hey, everybody! Turns out, I found a pretty cool PBS website with a few photoessays to check out. My favorite is the carnival one.
Go here.
See ya in class.

here is a phot essay i personally like. http://defendamerica.gov/photoessays/2003sep.html

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00079.htm
this is an interesting anti war photo essay thing. my opinion is that new zealand sucks, though.

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I just found a site that will be relevant for our photo essay unit: photo.net. The site has technology tips, sample photos, critiques--lots of great material!

Here's something I found at Adobe.com that reminds me of everything we're doing. Visual culture came to mind immediately. There are icons, cartoons, realistic images, and text. It needs more explanation to function as an infographic, in my opinion, but I still like it.

I found a website for Barry Mauer, a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. Mauer's site could be a goldmine for this class: he has a photo-essay, a number of PowerPoint presentations, and generally seems to be interested in the sorts of things we are trying to cover in this class.

I have to stop finding professorial websites that are so much better than my own ;(

Douglas Rushkoff, a writer who has been influenced by Marshall McLuhan's work, is about to publsih a graphic novel. He reflects in his weblog post that writing a graphic novel was very different from any other kind of writing he has done, and the action really is between the frames. Scott McCloud is validated--if any of you were wondering.

hey guys: take a look at this.

I found a bunch of quotes that might help. And Alisa sucks.

I was just looking at Kevin's blog and one of McLuhan's books, The Mechanical Bride, caught my eye. I decided to check it out at google and found a page that sort of briefly highlights McLuhan's different works. Maybe it'll help understand him better, how he got his ideas, and what his goal was in writing all those books.

As you begin to work on your information graphic for explaining a concept from Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage, you might want to do a little bit of research into the man, his work, his ideas. I have collected some McLuhan notes on my weblog, and you can search Google or your favorite engine for various McLuhan sites.

blog..blog..blog...

Yeah, Alissa, your face needs a little work, too. Merci.

In case anyone was having trouble finding the page about information graphics on my personal weblog, I am inserting the direct link here. A must read.

Hi! I found this site on visual language that sounds a lot like Robert Horn wrote it. It reiterates what Horn was saying about parts of visual language. It's not a huge site but there are links. Check it out here.

kyle: your infographic needs some work. thanks.

I just read a column, "The Poetry of an Image," in the Washington Post by photographer Pedro Meyer. Meyer says he received an angry email from someone who had heard him talk about the poetry of images, even though he, Meyer, uses digitial means of composing some images. This person told Meyer that only "capturing" an image could be equated to poetry, and that constructing images is taking the easy way out. Meyer defends his art and craft, as well as the poetic process of constructing an image.

Great example, on the one hand, of the way some people are afraid of technology dehumanizing us or killing our poetic spirits, and on the other hand, of someone defending the human and poetic elements that still inform creative production through computer technology.

Meyer has columns reaching back to 1997--definitely a collection worth checking out.