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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 →