December 2006
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
November 2006
self portraits -- imagining ourselves
you can contribute your own picture, a sketch, painting.
Scenes of Provincial Life
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography
a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet
Alive with Alzheimer's, the first photographic book on AD by Cathy Greenblat
by a visual sociologist, a site for everyone
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by 4 othersPhotographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web
visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult
then there were 30 DAYS OF RAIN
a northwest animation based on rainy Portland, experienced from an interior
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
Square America Snapshots & Vernacular Photography
by 5 othersa gallery of images from popular photos in US
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Audio slideshow: Eel and pie shop
the restaurant has been running in London since 1862. Audioslideshow
WWF - A way of life threatened by climate change
an audio/slideshow with native peoples of Alaska testifying to effects of climate change
North Fork, Long Island - slide show by Thomas a Ferrara
rural part of Long Island, audio/slideshow
Baby Animals - Pictures of Baby Animals
by 6 othersnot just folks with kids but lots of us can enjoy these terminally cute kidlets
KQED - Digital Storytelling Initiative
View and listen to the projects of people of all ages
October 2006
I Photograph to Remember
Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic
Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
by 1 otheralways looking for new ways to interest students in certain kinds of projects involving visual narrative, autobiography, documentary
Photobus
audio/slideshows
September 2006
Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing
by 1 otherFor teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu
