Usual disclaimers apply: This was typed very quickly and hasn’t been edited for style, content, layout, completeness, for non-aaron comprehension.  If it’s not helpful for me to post these, please let me know. Scientific VisualizationsTM   Time axis, we started in the rocks and then our awareness of theory has increased and concommitantly our stress…

Read more Really poor liveblog from 10-2-07

  Maybe many of you have been to this website. Scivee is like the Youtube for scientists and researchers. The website is created by UC San Diego and the patron behind this is National Science Foundation(NSF). Subjects on this site are mainly about bioengineering and medicine. Users post their papers, presentations and research processes online and…

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BRUCE WILLIS Color – as in Sin City or Hero o    Color effects mood, draws attention to various aspects •    Lighting – o    Lighting effects mood •    Sound o •    Montage •    Camera Position •    Mise en scene o    Overall composition –props, actors, scene •    Acting •    Special effects o    Constructed sets o    Backdrops o   …

Read more THE LIST as interpreted by Bruce Willis

• 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…

Read more 10/4 In-Class Assignment

So, I finished my 2nd STEPS class today. So, after 6 hours of illustrator training you can make something like this: Pretty good, I know. I will sign autographs after class.

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…

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I like the example Jeff has given about the coke bottle that got dropped on the primitive culture. I was told a couple years ago about a book about an anthropologist who is researching a society. That society had a lot of very strange objects and methodology. As it turns out, the anthropologist is actually…

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