http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=new Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:50 +1000 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:50 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1944 The observation tower of J aacute nos-hegy the Elizabeth Lookout on J aacute nos Hill is the highest vantage point of Budapest with a 360 degree panorama was an obvious location It also allowed us to take on previous world records in both the highest definition image and the largest spherical panorama category When contacted the Council of District XII informed us on the upcoming anniversary of the tower We agreed to cooperate in commemorating the September 2010 event by setting up new world records-give them our best shot if you please 360systems Ltd 360world eu http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1944 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Posterous is the easy way to get content online using e-mail You can e-mail content of just about any type such as rich text photos music video Word Powerpoint Excel PDF documents and zip archives to us We will post it online in the most web-friendly format then reply with a public URL that can be forwarded or shared with friends Account creation is never required but if a user does create an account posts from your various e-mail addresses work home and mobile phone can all be integrated into one blog Posterous Inc Fig 1 Susie Blackmon s Posterous weblog available at http susieblackmon com http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1942 In 2007 NZ On Air initiated the NZ On Screen project as an integral part of its digital strategy Since 1989 NZ On Air has funded over 15 000 hours of local television production Much of this content as well as thousands more hours supported by broadcasters film investors and other funding sources is not easily accessible to the public NZ On Screen is unlocking the treasure chest providing access to the wealth of television film music video and new media produced in NZ along with knowledgeable background information New Zealand on Screen Fig 1 Murphy G 1981 Goodbye Pork Pie Aotearoa New Zealand NZ Film Fig 2 Tamahori L 1994 Once Were Warriors Aotearoa New Zealand New Zealand Film Commission Fig 3 Ballantyne A 2009 The Strength of Water Aotearoa New Zealand NZ Film http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1942 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:34:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1941 The eminent art expert Bernhard Berenson called this sheet the most beautiful drawing in the world It is thought to be a study for the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks in the Mus eacute e du Louvre Paris Web Gallery of Art Fig 1 Leonardo da Vinci c 1483 Silverpoint and white highlights on prepared paper 181 x 159 mm Biblioteca Reale Turin http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1941 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:45:01 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Better Place Australia is part of a global company dedicated to zero emissions driving We will enable the mass adoption of electric vehicles EVs in Australia by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy affordable and attractive for motorists to adopt and drive electric vehicles The key barriers to the mass adoption of EVs in Australia and globally have been range anxiety the cost and risk of battery purchase and the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid To overcome range anxiety - the fear of EV drivers that their battery will run out of power - Better Place provides a personal charge spot at home access to a network of charge spots at work and in public access to instant recharge through battery swap stations and in-car services to help drivers know when and where to recharge The system of battery swapping also helps overcome the cost and risk of battery purchase The driver s subscription to Better Place covers use of a battery and the ability to swap and go at any swap station Rather than pay upfront drivers pay a monthly fee which covers their battery use Better Place manages the risk and performance of the pool of batteries by tracking their capability and use through the battery swap stations Better Place manages the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid by using software that coordinates the charge spots so that the charging needs of customers are met within network capacity constraints This helps make the electricity grid more efficient and significantly reduces the need for additional generation transmission and distribution infrastructure Better Place 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:10:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1939 BILL MOYERS But this intrigues me because you ve set out over these years to educate young girls primarily I mean you do have some boys in your schools but primarily your goal is to educate young girls And given the fact that the Afghani and Pakistani societies are so male dominated that men run the families they run the government they run the villages they run the Taliban why focus on girls instead of the men who are going to in that culture grow up and run things GREG MORTENSON Well it s obviously the boys need education also But as a child in Africa I learned a proverb And it says If we educate a boy we educate an individual But if we can educate a girl we educate a community o And what that means is when girls grow up become a mother they are the ones who promote the value of education in the community The education of girls has very powerful impacts in a society Number one the infant mortality s reduced Number two the population is reduced The third thing is the quality of health improves And from my own observation when girls learn how to read and write they often teach their mother how to read and write Boys we don t seem to do that as much They also you ll see people kids coming out for the marketplace have meat or vegetables wrapped in newspaper And then you ll see the mother very carefully unfolding a newspaper and ask her daughter to read the news to her And it s the first time that woman is able to get information of what s going on in the outside world around very powerful to see that And another compelling reason is when women are educated they re not as likely to condone or encourage their son to get into violence or into terrorism In fact culturally when someone goes on jihad they should get permission from their mother first And if they don t it s very shameful or disgraceful So when women are educated as I mentioned they are less likely to encourage their son to get into violence And I ve seen that happen Bill over the last decade in rural areas of Afghanistan Pakistan I mean I could go on all day about this but educating girls is very powerful Bill Moyers Journal 15 January 2010 PBS http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1939 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:43:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1938 Wileman 1993 defines visual literacy as the ability to read interpret and understand information presented in pictorial or graphic images p 114 Associated with visual literacy is visual thinking described as the ability to turn information of all types into pictures graphics or forms that help communicate the information Wileman p 114 A similar definition for visual literacy is the learned ability to interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages Heinich Molenda Russell amp Smaldino 1999 p 64 The ERIC definition of visual literacy is a group of competencies that allows humans to discriminate and interpret the visible action objects and or symbols natural or constructed that they encounter in the environment http searcheric org Robinson as quoted in Sinatra 1986 describes visual literacy as an organizing force in promoting understanding retention and recall of so many academic concepts with which students must contend p v And lastly Sinatra defines visual literacy as the active reconstruction of past visual experience with incoming visual messages to obtain meaning p 5 with the emphasis on the action by the learner to create recognition The use and interpretation of images is a specific language in the sense that images are used to communicate messages that must be decoded in order to have meaning Branton 1999 Emery amp Flood 1998 If visual literacy is regarded as a language then there is a need to know how to communicate using this language which includes being alert to visual messages and critically reading or viewing images as the language of the messages Visual literacy like language literacy is culturally specific although there are universal symbols or visual images that are globally understood Suzanne Stokes 2002 1 The Occasional Wife 2 Stokes S 2002 Visual literacy in teaching and learning A literature perspective Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education 1 1 Branton B 1999 Visual literacy literature review Retrieved December 26 2001 from http vicu utoronto ca staff branton litreview html Emery L amp Flood A 1998 Visual literacy Retrieved September 22 1999 from University of Canberra Australian Centre for Arts Education Web site http education canberra edu au centres acae literacy litpapers vislit htm Heinich R Molenda M Russell J D amp Smaldino S E 1999 Instructional media and technologies for learning 6th ed Upper Saddle River NJ Prentice-Hall Sinatra R 1986 Visual literacy connections to thinking reading and writing Springfield IL Charles C Thomas Wileman R E 1993 Visual communicating Englewood Cliffs N J Educational Technology Publications http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1938 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:13:22 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 This is my final project for motion graphic design which is a Flash animation that depicts an origin myth of the self-created hero Hundred Pacer The name Hundred Pacer derived from a kind of very venomous snake that exists in mountain areas of Taiwan called Hundred Pacer snake and the protagonist Hundred Pacer was an ordinary Paiwanese Indigenous girl until her and her father were killed by the mudslide and the snake God chooses her to revive in passing down the power The story was inspired by the Typhoon Morakot happened in August 2009 which killed nearly 500 people and destroyed half of Taiwan at that time Jonghsiang Kwan 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:04:10 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 The Victoria Line that opened between 1968 and 1971 provided the opportunity to produce a new and consistent look across the whole line from the trains themselves to the stations and platforms All aspects of design were overseen by Misha Black the Design Consultant for London Transport 1964e1968 who previously had a similar role with British Rail He employed the talents of the The Design Research Unit DRU e a collective of designers artists and architects who designed all aspects of the VIctoria Line Each platform was designed with a very muted colour scheme described by some of the press at the time as the late lavatorial style 1 P58 The tiled designs in each seat recess provided much needed colour and decoration and gave each stop its own visual identity The results were a mixture of direct inspiration from the station name and references to historical details of the local area Ian Moore Design Assembly 3 May 2010 Fig 1 Stockwell by Abram Games - a semi-abstract swan representing the nearby pub of the same name http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1935 Aryan Kaganof s SMS Sugar Man has either the dubious or celebratory distinction - depending on your point of view of these kinds of things - of being the first feature film shot entirely on a cell phone specifically the Sony Ericsson W900i Given the film s strong sexual content Sony probably won t be championing the film any time soon But in their absence I will To Kaganof s grand credit the technique in which the film was shot never comes across as being gimmicky The majority of the movie is shot as any traditional movie is shot despite the unique camera being used Every once in awhile we do get a direct POV shot from one of the characters holding his or her own camera but this is used very sparingly and is thus unobtrusive Scenes are mostly lit and executed as if filmed with a traditional camera What s most surprising about the movie is that one might presuppose - or at least I did - that it would be comprised of mostly quick cuts I don t own a cell phone with a camera but I had assumed one of them could only hold small files for short scenes Against expectation Kaganof comprises SMS Sugar Man with fairly longish shots and gives the film a very lyrical tempo Mike Everleth 17 November 2008 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1935 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:56:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1934 The Tagtool is a performative visual instrument used on stage and on the street It serves as a VJ tool a creative video game or an intuitive way of creating animation The system is operated collaboratively by an artist drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with a gamepad The design achieves virtually unlimited artistic complexity with a simple set of controls which can be mastered even by children The project is coordinated by OMA International Our approach is that all knowledge acquired within the Tagtool project should be shared We are inspired by the open source movement and believe that it is also relevant for the digital arts OMA International Austria Fig 1 Hagleitner Krenn Kermer Rieger 2008 Tagtool 039 short video documentary http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1934 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:17:31 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1933 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1933 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:06:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1932 In the archaic theatre there was relatively little divide between spectator and performer seeing and doing people danced and spoke then retired to a stone seat to watch others dance and declaim By the time of Aristotle actors and dancers had become a caste with special skills of costuming speaking and moving Audiences stayed offstage and so developed their own skills of interpretation as spectators As critics the audience sought to speculate then about what the stage-characters did not understand about themselves though the chorus on stage sometimes also took on this clarifying role Richard Sennett 2008 p 125 Sennett R 2008 The Craftsman London Penguin Books Fig 1 Lysistrata Summer 2006 University of Florida http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1932 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:51:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1931 By now it seems like just about everyone has seen the iPhone 4 vs HTC EVO video and the rebuttal video The video portrays an electronics store employee trying to convince a person looking for an iPhone 4 to buy an HTC EVO 4G instead It s hilarious - like all good humor so funny because it s at least partially true But you know who didn t find it funny Best Buy How do I know that Because they re trying to fire the kid who made it The video in question was made by Brian Maupin a 25-year-old based in Kansas City Missouri For the past three and a half years he s been working at Best Buy selling mobile phones He s probably not going to be doing that anymore as Best Buy has suspended him indefinitely and is currently taking the steps to terminate him Maupin tells us The reason The video The video became so popular it currently has nearly 1 3 million views on YouTube that someone at Best Buy corporate saw it They then put two-and-two together that it was an employee at one of their stores that made it and the hammer came down They felt it disparaged a brand they carried iPhone Apple as well as the store itself and were fearful of stockholders amp customers being turned off to Best Buy Mobile Maupin says MG Siegler TechCrunch 1 July 2010 Fig 1 Tiny Watch Productions 2010 iPhone4 vs HTC Evo Fig 2 Tiny Watch Productions 2010 HTC EVO vs iPhone4 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1931 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:31:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 xtranormal s mission is to bring movie-making to the people Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies Movie-making short and long online and on-screen private and public will be the most important communications process of the 21st century Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing You type something we turn it into a movie On the web and on the desktop Xtranormal The Xtranormal Text-to-Movie authoring tool allows you to produce short films It does so through adding your typed dialogue in the form of text to speech to supplied animated character assets http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:32:33 +1000