“When we talk about time, we often use spatial metaphors like ‘I’m looking forward to seeing you’ or ‘I’m reflecting back on the past,’ ” said Lynden K. Miles, who conducted the study with his colleagues Louise K. Nind and C. Neil Macrae. “It was pleasing to us that we could take an abstract concept such as time and show that it was manifested in body movements.”
Abstract Thoughts Prompt Literal Physical Responses – NYTimes.com
had to repost this one from anna - live streaming audio from underneath the antarctic ice. hold out for the occasional, distant creature sounds and clunks. Opt for the ogg-vorbis stream (i’m using VLC).
Scott McCloud’s invaluable book “Understanding Comics” sets the tone in this little explanation of interface graphics.
“The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning.”
Even the sturdiest of wall maps tend to have limited life spans, but this large, segmented map is so rare that for centuries it was uncertain if this copy even existed
Exhibition Review – The Matteo Ricci World Map at the Library of Congress – NYTimes.com.
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81
“The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”
catherine person gallery, january 7 – february 20
install view:
Here’s a small 3d landscape made with the (now free) Unity game engine and (also free) google sketchup. I used USGS aerial photography and matched heightmaps (again, free) for the landscape itself (mt. hadley on the edge of the adirondacks). Unity has a built-in terrain maker that will create 3d terrains from grayscale heightmaps. Hoping to use this in one of my classes next term…
Requires the “Unity Player” for your browser, a quick download (and doesn’t mess up your browser).
“The truth is that the film object has already changed, from preproduction to projection. And the traditional theatrical experience that shaped how viewers looked at film and, by extension, the world, has been mutating for some time.”
MANOHLA DARGIS - NYTimes.com.
