Here is another work from my design student, Nicole Boffa. Thumbs up!
From Design & Typography class at the Department of Media Culture, CUNY.
Here is a work from my design student, Steven Martinez. Very good! From Design & Typography class at the Department of Media Culture, CUNY.
These are very nice center labels from Center Of Attention website. Good inspiration source for usage of shapes, colors and typography. More can be seen online at: centerofattention.me
“cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.”
I am curious what are the benefits of those visualizations for us to perceive/understand movies any better. Would be great to read the full thesis though. Here is the brief list of things come up to my mind when I look at the results:
- Average color-scale of the whole movie might give us a clue about the atmosphere and the mood of the movie.
- Dialogues can be extracted to make a tag cloud or list of frequently used words.
- We can visualize the flow of the soundtrack to see rising moments, tensions and relaxing scenes.
- We can analyze pace of the movie by looking at cut/transition frequencies.
- Repeating patterns might be visualized as well, gun-shots, car scenes, conversations, etc.
The list can grow however, I believe we should always keep in mind that the movie itself is a very different experience than its visualizations. Storytelling and audience feelings can’t be communicated enough with visualizations. More information and videos about the project is available on cinemetrics website.
Pages from the original copy of NASA’s identity guidelines from when they re-branded to the ‘worm’ logo, dated January 1976. NASA’s logo is probably one of the most memorable identity design on earth. Would be great to have and study this guidelines book.
“The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.” Nskyc project is simple, clever, elegant, focused and about colors. Thumbs up!
Stamen released their latest mapping project, onebayarea maps. It filters the view by the travel time between areas, and the median price of homes in each area. Important points:
1. It is not based on google maps but geoIQ. Map is nicer and more suitable for data mapping.
2. Median Price Data is not from census data but ABAG data. Most probably better organized and reliable.
Finally there is a mapping project which shows contextualized data based on a daily case and looks nice. Good Job from Stamen. You can also read the original post about their project on their blog.
Digital Archives
I just gave a presentation at the Interior Design Studio, Parson School of Design about Digital Archives, particularly the work that I did at the New Museum. Obviously there are wide range of resources on archives. I would highly suggest Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever as a critical/philosophical start. If you like to go technical, here are some links that you may want to check it out. Of course wikipedia is a very good resource to learn about the concepts and terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library If you are talking about Digital Archive, one of the main issue is the Metadata. Here is the Metadata resources: http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm If watching is easier than reading; http://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html Archiving is a lot of manual work, even for companies like Google;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOXC5PTJj8
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FRANZ XAVER MESSERSCHMIDT DOCUMENTARY FILM
We are proud to announce that we finalized a documentary film project on Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s work and life. It is going to be on view at Neue Galerie New York between September 16, 2010- January 10, 2011.
The Franz Xaver Messerschmidt exhibition is one of the most anticipated shows in New York City and it will be the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to this major late 18th-century Austro-Bavarian sculptor. It will focus on the artist’s so-called “character heads,” among the most important works of sculpture from their era. The exhibition is organized by Guilhem Scherf, chief curator of sculpture at the Musée du Louvre.
FRANZ XAVER MESSERSCHMIDT 1736-1783
From Neoclassicism to Expressionism
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September 16, 2010-January 10, 2011
Neue Galerie New York
January 26-April 25, 2011
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Directed by
Hakan Topal
Produced by
Newgray
New York
Camera
Gregor Grkinic
Hakan Topal
Editing
Hakan Topal
Art Consultant and Researcher
Margaret Samu
Location Sound
Marc Orleans
Location Assistants
Shai Zurim, New York
Boris Steiner, Vienna
Editing and Story Consultant
Kari Conte
Sound Mastering
Nate Greenberg
Interviews
Barry X Ball
Artist
New York
Deborah Coen
Assistant Professor of History
Barnard College, Columbia University
Charles Janoray
Art dealer, European sculpture and works of art
New York
Dakin Hart
Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
Ronald S. Lauder
President
Neue Galerie New York
Ian Wardropper
Chairman, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Film commissioned by
Neue Galerie New York
2010 © Newgray
Prospect New Orleans website is updated
As part of our development plan, we updated the Prospect website specifically for Fall 2010 events and integrated with Facebook and Tumblr blog. Prospect staff will have the ability to update the site and interact with their users more effectively. And it looks good!
I finished shoting the Franz Xaver Messerschmitt documentary with a 5D setup. Since I always use prime lenses, it is hard to match the quality with other video cameras which usually use zoom lenses with smaller CCD chips. For FXM documentary all the scenes was shot in doors and I wanted to try my new lens outside. Here are two test shots. Vimeo one will follow.
Prospect New Orleans Blog: Art and the Oil Spill: A letter from Dan Cameron
New Orleans
Art and the Oil Spill: A letter from Dan CameronProspect New Orleans founder, Dan Cameron, has released a letter addressing the devastating effects of the BP oil spill and the role of the city’s artist community in this dire time. Below is Mr. Cameron’s letter:
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