• Exercise for Thursday o The following exercise shall be led and facilitated by the three Ph.D. students. o 45 minutes: Get into groups of 2-3. Answer the following questions: 1. What are some specific cinematic issues or techniques in the representation of reality (e.g., realism versus formalism)? Come up with a list. 2. Pick…
photos as statistic pictures are reminder of the past time, here and then. Films, a serial of pictures which was called motion plus audio provide a much more vivid scenes to us. And we get a kind of here and now illusion. After we get the illusion, we enjoy them a lot. TV shows, movies…
http://xkcd.com/ “Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).”
I know in class we sort of focused on how macro and micro were different. We used the example for macro that an author doesn’t really write a novel, but that the novel is essentially produced by the author’s position in society and outside factors like economics. And micro is focusing on the individual versus…
http://www.ku6.com/show/U5S7Zu6RfbjoNFMd.html It is a famous heroes and swordman novel named Tian Long Ba Bu. It is rooted from a true history in China , and it is a period of time when invaded by other races and there are wars years after years. By recording several part of the game, The game movie simply told us a story-a…
When we talked about the gray area between professional and amateur, I was thinking about the QUALITY. I have been looking for and enjoying professional artworks or artifacts on purpose, on the other hand, I usually skip over works by amateurs on the web or at some private exhibitions. Those often make me disappointed and…
The “design of primitives” should be a clearly defined subset of interaction design with its own language. We see primitives all around us. Legos are primitives that many of us are familiar with. Their popularity and function are so basic that millions of children and adults have used them. There is a need for having…
As a result, all human culture has been absorbed in a certain kind of structures/matrixes/theories? Or human beings have decentred subjects in the world/minds, indicating the blind spot where structuralism is not related to our practical life since it is just theories that human beings have created? This means that the subjects are ubiquitous…
Jeff”s presentation in this week makes me think more about the new media and HCI. I have heard the concept “cyborg” before. It contributes to many discussion on cultural issues, such as postmodernism and feminism. The fashion show video played in the end of Thursday’s class reminded me of this idea. To me, the avatars in the show…
icanhascheezburger There is the link to the site I mentioned and here is the article in the WSJ I have actually gone back through from the beginning (click start at first) and looked at every single one. The self-refferential material and in-jokes are all over the place, but I think almost anyone can read 3-4…
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