We’re back for another session of new media one: perspectives. Welcome back. Let’s have a party!
First thing I’d like to do is link back to a note by John on The Night Journey. Lots of things to remark here: the collaborative/team effort and the application of technology in ways that extend the game engine [...]
Something the new media students didn’t think about in their presentations. Yet, to play with puns, was “in the air”
In a paper published today in Science, Soljajic and colleagues describe their lighting of a 60-watt light bulb with energy sent across a seven-foot gap, proving that such a system is indeed possible.
Soljacic began his search [...]
Mark Bernstein points us to FlySketch screen-capturing. I can see wonderful uses of this for the laptop set in the classroom. How many times has the poetry teacher wanted to zone in on that prize example of synecdoche, store and share it. What about the programming teacher who wants to send off that juicy Python [...]
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). Microsoft presented both new products and a new vision for how services and software will interoperate in the Microsoft and Silverlight ecosystems. Microsoft is providing not only the tools and software but they are [...]
A nice piece at Game Career Guide by Robin Koman of Full Sail on the role of mythology in game design called Epic Vision: Mythology and Game Design
I’ve been thinking about writing an article on mythology in game design for a few months now, and with the recent burst of renewed interest in Joseph Campbell’s [...]
Geoff Manaugh of BLGBLOG has a nice interview with Walter Murch, referred to by John Timmons in class in our discussions of editing.
As it happens, Murch’s interests go far beyond the reach of cinema, encompassing architecture, astronomy, music theory, and mathematics – among an almost impossibly broad range of other subjects.
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It’s sort of an in-joke, but I think John Timmons will find this Glen Slaven post interesting given issues with the embed tag that often comes with the use of modular media in web pages and weblog posts. It’s a response to Nick Bradbury’s post on RSS practices.
And out of this comes a new wordpress [...]
For you budding programmers, Kirupa has a nice little bit on the principle of inheritance.
For example, if we were to create an Alien class that is based on the Character class, we can say that Alien extends Character. Finally, the word base refers to the class you are extending from. In our examples, the base [...]
Colin McEnroe posts on Beau Anderson’s use of an image for a recent New Media assignment on the nature of icons. Mr. McEnroe’s post reminds me of Magritte on words and images.
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This is a fairly old post from Solace in Cinema. It provides screen comparisons of Snyder and Miller’s work, film and comic respectively. 300 will be an example of taking a comic’s particular flavor and remediating it into the environment of film, an act that, I find, comes with all kinds of questions. The first [...]
USA Today has updated and redesigned its website. It would be a nice extra for someone in new media to analyze the changes given our recent subject of icons, sequences, and dynamic content.
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There are two new tabs at the top of every page (and also on the right sidebar) entitled Hypertext and Interactive Fiction respectively. These pages contain links to further information about theory, tools to create your own works, and other cool places to explore and interact with.
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Here’s a nice entry provided by the journal Vectors out of the University of Southern California.
The specific work is Anne Friedberg and Erik Loyer’s The Virtual Window Interactive, a “windowed” work that explores the nature of framed space and frames that mediate experience, much as we experimented with in class on the 15th of February.
Here’s [...]
A history lesson taken to a futuristic extreme. Is this possible?
Thanks, once again, to Susan Gibb for the link.
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