Tuesday, July 25, 2006

I heard about the Democracy Player today on Future Tense. Watch TV on the Web, make TV for the Web.

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on a book in the late 1930s that became famous in the early 1960s, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Interesting contrast with Lauren Greenberg's Girl Culture.

Some more on Evans and Agee.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
http://www.ralphmag.org/AU/famous-men.html
A review of the Agee/Evans book.

Notes on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hans320/class/lunpfm/
A brief overview of the history of and reaction to the book. Includes quotes from Agee himself.

Hanover Historical Review—Volume 1
http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhrvol1.html
This 1993 volume of the HHR features four essays relating to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

An interview with Scott McCloud:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7541

Saturday, July 08, 2006

A slightly interactive version of the Big Triangle--Scott McCloud's guide to visual communication. http://comic-book-innovation.blogspot.com/2006/07/big-triangle.html

Friday, July 07, 2006

I probably linked to Barbara Kruger's site before, but I was just thinking about a unit with her, Cindy Sherman, and Lauren Greenfield: collage, fictional composition, documentary style approaches to photos / photo essays. I suppose none of them are exactly considered photo essayists.
http://www.barbarakruger.com/

I was just reading somewhere about Life magazine's invention of the photo-essay, and the rationale behind that, perhaps in the essay about the history of imagination? Will look this up.

On a completely different note, WikiMedia Commons has multimedia material for use and accepts contributions.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A story about online photo sharing getting more creative and social.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501719_pf.html

In case the story moves or gets proprietary, the sites referenced are:
http://www.tabblo.com
and
http://www.ourstory.com