came my way

When I teach, I jump from YouTube to Delicious to Google docs on the classroom screen. I allow—even encourage—my students to use laptops in class, and I don’t worry if they’ve got Facebook in one tab while the day’s assigned reading is in another. They’re the ones getting graded, so I let them own the direction and degree of their attention along with the consequences. I let them work the way I work, or find their own way of working, without pretending these tools don’t exist. So it isn’t their use of Facebook that concerns me as much who they’re using it with, and I don’t mean the predators and creeps and assorted bogeyfolk 20/20 warns us about every sweeps week. To the contrary, I worry the web might be keeping them safe but stunted, because it’s so easy to continue the relationships and conversations they had in high school and carry along to college an entrenched identity built when they were younger. As I told my student, what concerns me about her peers and herself being online is the loss of isolation, of separation, of the ability for 18 year olds to live in their heads for a while. Or at least to own their own minds.

Steve Himmer, "The importance of unwritten postcards," posted at The Millions, 17 May 2011
via The Chocolate Chip Waffle

Alexa's Statement Update

I am still exploring the topic of shipwrecks. I have started pulling from sea shanties, Moby Dick, and Hans Blumenberg’s Shipwreck With Spectator for typographic elements. I am using the world map as a base to build off of.

Thesis Statement 12.10.12

I am focusing on memories, how they are recorded, how they are stored, and how they are recalled/remembered. I am using a collection of entries from my old online diary (Xanga) from 2007-2009, and my research on memory throughout the Fall 2012 semester. I am taking these resources out of context, stitching them together to make one, made up fantasy memory. Through research I have come to understand and believe that one never remember things as they happen, you glorify and substitute bits and pieces to get the memory you desire it to be…

p.s.

panel reviews Monday evening, schedule in previous post.

the semester's work concludes with a process book that documents how the work has evolved, and your thoughts about same.
 

memoria

Memory is a poet, not an historian.
Marie Howe

source
 

Video!

The video is done! I'm very happy with how it came out, it's exactly how I pictured it. I posted it on my tumblr from vimeo, but the quality was lost upon upload. So, it's best to view it from the raw file which I will show in class on Monday.

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Also, I really need the 6pm slot for reviews on the 10th if thats okay with everyone?

panel reviews, Monday 10 December

We'll start at 6:00pm, in 30-minute sessions:
6:00 Nicole
6:30 Tim
7:00 Lauren
7:30 Alexa

reviewers are John Colan, Mary Bucci McCoy, Justin Gagne, Jesse Kahn, Sarah Smith (and for at least one session, Brian Savignano)
 

for tim

the list

1. project on building/screen
2. project on building/screen, with person/figure between projector and screen, and seen from projector side
3. project on screen, with person/figure between projector and screen, and seen from behind screen
4. project into space (no reflective surface), person/figure moves across — creates a kind of traveling static, in otherwise empty space.
5. set agent/worm to navigate across noise
6. double projection, e.g., noise + I Love Lucy, or noise + agent/worm

more

1. be familiar with wayang kulit / shadow puppetry
2. what can be done, metaphorically, with the static / noise / clouds / snow / passing ghosts?

see also this image of Dance by Toby Old.

Color Charts.

Color charts: one unorganized, one organized, one in slivers.. I liked how it looked.

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Video!

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Sunset Color.

Update- color studies from sunset at Good Harbor beach this past weekend. Next up, organizing them (heaven). And then ordering my own color charts from spoonflower.

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Sunset hues.

I was able to capture the set of colors I was looking for to add to my studies with the hurricane photos. I went to Good Harbor beach in Gloucester, MA.

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More and New.

More color studies... I could look at my hurricane photos forever, the colors are to a 't' what I had in mind for a color scheme. Also, new drawings from the hurricane photos, not yet executed in illustrator or a book, but they will head there.

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readings, upcomings

We've got Nicole's reading (Thoreau) and the reading pertaining to Lauren's work (articles from recent "memory" issue New Scientist). We'll clarify tomorrow (Wednesday) which will be discussed when, but it would be good to start reading these.

Also, next Wednesday we'll be joined by Jan Moscowitz, a smart and stylish graphic designer who'll be talking about her work and life, including a crisis-design project relating to Sandy.

Thoreau and Color.

I've put a copy of the text I've selected relating to my project in everyone's boxes. I've also posted a few new things on my blog. A photo sequence of the view at E. Point in Gloucester. As well as some color studies from the photos I took during the hurricane, after all what I was drawn to was the color so I am finding that that is what I am able to pull from them. From here, I think I'll do more color studies. Maybe draw a pattern from the new hurricane photos. Or start reading about how to produce the patterns. I felt myself getting into a process, which worked for a bit but I need to break that right now before this becomes monotonous.

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generative art (and design)

Monday 5 November —
A reminder that Tim will lead us through a discussion of
Philip Galanter, "What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory," which seems to have appeared ca 2002. The PDF can be accessed via the author's resources page.

Worth exploring is Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub, and Claudius Lazzeroni (editor), Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing (2012). The book has a web component for tools, code examples, etc., here (click on EN for English language).

Will bring in the book on Monday. It has been pointed out* that a good start in this book is the "Reflections" (pp460-465).

for the record —
See entry on Francis Galton's use of a "chain signal code," described here. This seems to be a special case of, or at least akin to, a "chain code" described by wikipedia.
 

Progress and Music

my blog
Some more posts and ideas... I feel momentum coming soon...

A Monochromatic View.

New post. New photographs to draw from. I'm really loving the different feel that these give off, but are still connected to what I am doing. I think it's a good mesh and provides more depth.

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halloween special

Just a reminder that we're invited to join Mary Bucci McCoy's GD1 class tomorrow morning. There'll be Halloween donuts, coffee, cider, fruit.

You get to talk about/show what's up with your projects. A laptop will be attached to their large monitor, if that will help.

You might think about what you wish you'd known, heard, etc., back when you were a freshman in GD1!

After that, we'll return to Seminar Room, pick up wherever we left off or wherever needs more attention. Also, we'll discuss what you'd like us to be reading, relating to your work, in seminar. If necessary, I'll try to help choose something.

Please be on time tomorrow, so we don't keep those guys waiting. Bring your appetite, too.

seafoam.

a new design inspired by sea foam.

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