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In today’s class, I want to get us started on Project 3 by discussing Kalman’s …And Pursuit of Happiness and Rice’s chapter on Woodward Avenue from Digital Detroit. As with our other projects this semester, the idea here is for you to extract … Continue reading →

Today is our second night discussing the major theorists and theories associated with postmodernity. Katherine developed a spreadsheet to help organize our discussion; let’s try to flush out more of the sheet this week: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiCj7a4lv2s2dHZhcWVvd25VN1dLcEEyaEtDUG1KWWc&usp=sharing   Next Weel’s Reading Next … Continue reading →

Hi all,  Thanks to everyone who came to the optional workday. Here’s my thoughts on the questions you raised today: 1. I have opened a quiz called “Map Postmortem.” There’s only two real questions–both intend to prepare your abstract/supporting material(s) … Continue reading →

Tuesday Hi all. In today’s class we will take some time to talk about potential map projects and then will focus attention on Photoshop. I have sent out a .zip file with images for us to work with. We will: … Continue reading →

Tuesday: Photoshop I want to spend sometime in class today working in Photoshop. I have two exercises to work on. The first will work with a few images, practicing cropping, filtering, textual overlay, and perhaps a few other tools. I will … Continue reading →

Project One: “Kalman” Project A multimedia project based on the work of author and artist Maira Kalman. Technologies: Digital Photography PowerPoint / MovieMaker or iMovie / Haiku Deck  Photoshop Objectives: Photography skills / concepts Image editing Visual Rhetoric (design principles–alignment, … Continue reading →

Visual Rhetoric Crash Course In preparation for the MEmorials, I wanted to give a quick crash course in Visual Rhetoric. Your design decisions will play a factor in the evaluation of this piece. The following is meant to provide you … Continue reading →

Nemo, Heidegger, Levinas, and Onto-Theology In his translator’s introduction, Cohen highlights Heidegger’s critique of “onto-theology.” Simplifying a bit, we can understand onto-theology as the desire for a foundation, for a metanarrative, for a transcendental grund. Of course, such a foundation can … Continue reading →

Tuesday First, I want to talk about the assignment sheets a bit. Here’s some comments worth discussing: I think your methods section does a nice job grounding a specific approach to the assignment–the idea of focusing on a public blindness. … Continue reading →

Peyton Manning, the Playoffs, and the Ontic/Ontological Question I wanted to follow up on one of Lauren’s questions from the end of last class–what is the difference between ontic and ontological? Heidegger addresses this early in the essay–it is the … Continue reading →