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Disclaimer, this was sitting in my unpublished drafts for at least a week or more. Sorry about that. OK so my title is alarmist and/or tabloidish, but honestly after listening to Jeff’s lectures this week, I am fairly convinced by his syllogistic logic. The tools used to create “amateur” media (and mainstream media too, but…
Driveway Hockey begins this Saturday! Search for the Facebook group “Driveway Hockey” for details. [Update]: Minor edits made. Also, some HTML errors were fixed *cough* –JB Phenomenology and structuralism are approaches to understanding something, they are not embedded in an object. A film is not inherently phenomenological, but it can be interpreted phenomenologically. User centered…
In the last class discussion, I broached about mise-en-scène for film theory. I had taken a film theory and history class when I was a freshman. Although I forgot almost about that lecture now, when I met the question 4, I came across a term, mise-en-scène. I think HCI Designers should have their mise-en-scène for…
In this situation of throwing-ness how aware is this person of the hammer (or the nail)? http://justvidclips.com/view/51/hammer-guy-very-cool-juggling-video-/
Thursday’s class discussion, Dave mentioned the prison in Manovich’s book. It is saying in cinema, two hundred people stay at a dark room, they don’t move, they don’t speak, they are all sitting at their designated seats orderly and watch a same huge white board( movie screen) for three hours, doesn’t it equal to prisoner…
Stephen Prince argues that “To date, theory has tended to minimize the importance of perceptual correspondences, but the advent of digital imaging demonstrates how important they are and have been all along.” Things like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or the impossibly realistic landscape in True Lies each highlight problems with traditional film theory, exposing…
I was playing Metroid Prime 3 today and felt inspired to mentally butcher realism and formalism into this post on realism in video games. Formalism is probably at the heart of most video games. Creating mythical lands of the unreal for people to play in is not exactly a realistic representation of the “real world.”…
If it is the motion make films living compared with photographs, and therefore gives films overwhelming power to encourage the directors to express and create far beyond record and remind, entice audience to involve beyond just know and accept. What is the motion in HCI? The dynamics in a social network? The feedback and guiding …
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