A class called “1′2′10′” by Nick Bilton of New York Times that I took today reminded me of how I fell in love with information design while at Parsons School of Design, where I did a thesis about map design.
So I decided to bring back my strong interest in symbols, info/data organization & visualization again. To refresh my memory and revive the enthusiasm, I decided to post whatever Web resources I found interesting to mention here. Today I am introducing three Websites, but I will frequently be posting more if I find any. Read more
For CommLab this week, I made a short clip with Lily and animated snow scene using After Effects. This clip, titled “Lily and the First Snow”, has a simple narrative with a dog and the snow(with Santa?), and I tried to follow my storyboard to illustrate the story.
As a video assignment for CommLab at ITP, Fall 2008, I teamed up with Diana and Cameron to develop a Radiohead-inspired clip of New York City. Diana starred for us, and we shot scenes at Times Square as well as in the subway car. We used Radiohead’s “Everything in its right place” from their album “Kid A”.
For the weekly reading homework for Communications Lab at ITP, I read chapter one and two from “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” by Marshall McLuhan. I should say that this was a delightful read. The book was published in 1964, but I thought McLuhan’s concepts of “medium is the message” and the differences between “hot and cool media” were very much so true in today’s media landscape.
I teamed up with Jorge to develop a stop motion sequence as the weekly homework for Communications Lab at ITP. We were brainstorming for the concept and idea, and we happened to find a bunch of wires, clothes, colored strings and several plastic sheets with words like “BODY CARE” and “HAIR CARE”. We liked what we found, and decided to use “hair salon” as our theme to create the narrative.
Concept: “HAIR CARE” – At this special ITP hair salon, customers will be offered special hair care treatment with new hair styles using various materials found at a junk shelf. You don’t know what happens to your hair…! Read more
For the week 3 assignment for the Communications Lab at ITP, I read an essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher, according to Wikipedia. Read more
I just opened a new blog page with WordPress. I had a different blog with free blog engine came as part of packaged Web FTP server. Since noon today I’ve been trying to migrate all data and documents from my old blog page. It’s already 5:30. Unbelievable. The migration has been a disaster, because WordPress did not support the blog tool I used, so I had to do everything manually. And troubles arose. Read more
