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…
EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry) is, as its name suggests, a conference about the implications and uses of ethnography in industry. I was a little surprised (and pleased) that about 80% of the presenters and participants were from industry, and only about 20% were academics. Intel, Microsoft, and IBM are very well represented here, as…
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…
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 …
• 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…
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.
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…
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…
Interaction Culture 