tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57263592007-09-25T04:16:49.337-07:00Visual Culture and LanguageKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-37099808879534006702007-01-10T19:33:00.000-08:002007-01-10T19:38:48.651-08:00
Photo taken with my built in iSight camera on my MacBook. Getting the built-in iSight was a big reason for getting the computer--I just hope I can find less gratuitous uses that this one.
My wife also has a MacBook with iSight, and we did some video chatting recently while she was in Chicago. That was pretty cool, and much easier with much higher quality than the few webchats I have Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1159376172943325512006-09-27T09:50:00.001-07:002006-09-27T09:56:12.943-07:00Neil Cohen, visual linguist, reviews Making Comics by Scott McCloud. Neil does a nice job of making some distinctions between his approach to the visual and McCloud's approach, and I can't help but think that an email exchange I had with Neil influenced this review a bit.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1156690916948815232006-08-27T08:00:00.000-07:002006-08-27T08:01:56.956-07:00A review of a book about Dada and modern art.
The works cited include a book about collage.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1156543731668127172006-08-25T15:07:00.000-07:002006-08-25T15:08:51.676-07:00I had the good fortune to see the Andre Kertesz "On Reading" exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago just before the exhibition closed.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1153885652902738452006-07-25T20:45:00.000-07:002006-07-25T20:47:32.923-07:00I heard about the Democracy Player today on Future Tense. Watch TV on the Web, make TV for the Web.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1153685127230371632006-07-23T13:02:00.000-07:002006-07-26T18:32:34.123-07:00Walker 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.eduKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1152456137539515262006-07-09T07:42:00.000-07:002006-07-09T07:42:17.550-07:00An interview with Scott McCloud:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7541Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1152396500976150862006-07-08T15:07:00.000-07:002006-07-08T15:08:20.986-07:00A slightly interactive version of the Big Triangle--Scott McCloud's guide to visual communication. http://comic-book-innovation.blogspot.com/2006/07/big-triangle.htmlKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1152284092374318202006-07-07T07:48:00.000-07:002006-07-07T07:54:52.376-07:00I 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-essayKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1152283438520163182006-07-07T07:42:00.000-07:002006-07-07T07:43:58.533-07:00A 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.comKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1149313703036838092006-06-02T22:46:00.000-07:002006-06-02T22:48:23.046-07:00A collection of bison around Fargo in the tradition of Chicago's cows, Winnipeg's polar bears, and I am sure many other similar events I am unaware of.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1146540603056255062006-05-01T20:25:00.000-07:002006-05-01T20:30:03.070-07:00The Wired Guide to online video. I think these articles contain everything I need for Unit 3!
I have been thinking about tweaking the units a bit.
Unit 1: Still the timeline, still "visual culture" as topic. Can I fit McLuhan in here? Maybe drop Gitlin?
Unit 2: Body, gender, identity as topic, photo essay as genre: add Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Girl Culture, from Plato to OJ?
Unit 3:Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1145196896852063602006-04-16T07:13:00.000-07:002006-04-16T07:15:15.966-07:00Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Series exhibit from 1997 at the Moma. Good catalog description.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1144247357327329632006-04-05T07:28:00.000-07:002006-04-05T08:00:47.303-07:00Image databases / repositories / collections.
http://www.graffiti.org/
http://www.bannerart.org/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/index.html
http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/fiolinks.htm
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.liquidlibrary.com/
http://www.jupiterimages.com/
http://creative.gettyimages.com/
http://digitalgallery.nypl.orgKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1144083040303965332006-04-03T09:49:00.000-07:002006-04-03T09:50:40.316-07:00The Mechanisms of Meaning. http://www.reversibledestiny.org/book_tmom.php
I read that this book has some interesting ideas for doing visual compositions.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1105996042677904722005-01-17T13:06:00.000-08:002005-01-17T13:07:22.676-08:00Photo-sharing might be a good way to draft a photo essay--check this story out. Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1105800548921342252005-01-15T06:46:00.000-08:002005-01-15T07:38:25.776-08:00The Medium is the Massage inspired an issue of the multimedia magazine Aspen, an innovative publication from the 1960s.
Also at Aspen are four abstract films--relevant to the film assignment in this class.
This Fusionanomaly webpage has collected a number of cultural references to / appearances by McLuhan.
Joyce Chen at the University of Northern Iowa has remediated The Medium is theKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1105799719462271822005-01-15T06:34:00.000-08:002005-01-15T06:35:19.463-08:00A book, website, and timeline relevant to visual culture and language: Technomanifestos.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1105761574716660402005-01-14T19:46:00.000-08:002005-01-14T19:59:34.716-08:00I'm a little obsessed with InfoPorn right now--hope it doesn't get me fired.
I came across a piece of software called SmartDraw--I'll have to see if it helps me with timelines.
I got to Smart Draw from xplane.com--great information graphics, visual thinking company. Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1105759820383479102005-01-14T19:25:00.000-08:002005-01-14T19:30:20.383-08:00understanding visual culture requires a good understanding of oral, manuscript, and print cultures. Richard Clement's Books and Universities is a readable and informative history of the codex, its predecessors, and its development with the invention of the printing press. He makes the point that the codex was developed in the second century AD, and the invention of the printing press did not Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1104602772145938612005-01-01T09:49:00.000-08:002005-01-01T10:06:12.146-08:00I've been searching for timelines, and came across a well developed collection by George Emery. He has been collecting since 1993. I haven't sampled very many yet, but am generally disappointed by the text-heavy nature of the ones I have seen. Where are the images?!
The website HyperHistorymakes execellent use of timelines--people and events placed on a timeline, with hyperlinks to a node Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1100986760705277382004-11-20T13:24:00.000-08:002004-11-20T13:39:20.706-08:00A two reviews of Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms our Lives, and an interview where he elaborates/clarifies some of his ideas.
From TheBrothers Judd--a conservative book review site. They find Gitlin to be long on analysis, short on solutions, and that is because they think they solutions = old fashioned values of family, church, community. GreatKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1100985533086438772004-11-20T13:16:00.000-08:002004-11-20T13:18:53.086-08:00Perhaps only 51% of students will agree with the sentiment of this collective photo essay, Sorry Everybody, but even dissenters can see a recipe for visual expression. Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1087071908658886392004-06-12T13:23:00.000-07:002004-06-12T13:30:31.400-07:00Poems That Go: a site for VCL or electronic communication. The winter 2004 issues focuses on concrete poetry and typography--potentially a specific resource for this class.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726359.post-1081970404428497442004-04-14T12:17:00.000-07:002004-04-14T12:22:55.653-07:00K.i.s.s. of the Panopticon looks like an interesting and relevant site for VCL. The author says, "Well, this is k.i.s.s. of the panopticon's first humble attempt at . . . orienting y'all to what cultural theory, visual literacy, and new media are all about." Some decent material on McLuhan, although the author, Douglas Bicket, is not a McLuhan fan. Prefers the materialists like Raymond Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09587202724486827943noreply@blogger.com