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imagesJourney and Non-Referential Iconography
Submitted by Scott Garbacz on Mon, 2014-02-24 09:00
Image source: Thatgamecompany. Probably all illustrations, and certainly the animated images I’ve discussed in Frozen and Lilo and Stitch, come freighted with a vast history of associations. Striking images can literally provide worldviews—complex perspectives from which to view matters ranging from gender roles to cultural identities to ideal body types. Frozen’s visual aesthetic offers a triumphantalist account of traditional images put to new uses, while Lilo and Stitch offers a harder-edged criticism of our lazy, self-indulgent ways of looking at the world, for instance. Yet both deliberately and meaningfully comment upon the mediating power of their own iconography. Both films are, in short, particularly focused on understanding how images have worked in the past, and how they can be made to work differently in the future. Journey is a video game whose cartoon-like visual aesthetic draws strongly from the same animated tradition as the first two films, yet its aims are quite different. In both its gameplay and its visual design, I will argue, Journey is not focused on what it means, but rather on the raw experiences it can provide. The game reminds us, in short, that while images have deep and rich rhetorical histories, they are also something more than mere arguments. The Artist's Speech
Submitted by Rachel Schneider on Thu, 2012-05-03 00:11
Image Credit: Screenshot from YouTube H/T: Emily Friedman The audience hears violins sawing tensely as they watch a man scream on screen; only, he is mute. He moves his mouth, but we only learn his words through intertitles: “I won’t talk! I won’t say a word!!!” So opens the 2011 Academy Award-winning film The Artist. Using Creative Commons Images
Submitted by noelradley on Mon, 2010-04-26 14:20
Image Credit: "Hospitality II" by Arriving at the Horizon Via Clinamen For this entry, I want to point out two online texts that model best practices in the use of images. Both texts also make powerful arguments. The first is Clinamen, an academic blog by James J. Brown, formerly of UT-Austin and the Digital Writing and Research Lab, who now teaches in Detroit at Wayne State. The image above is from Brown's March 16 post. Indeed, all of Brown's entries are organized by a compelling, and beautiful, image (see screenshot after the break). Photosynth Can Show You the World (or, Maybe Not)
Submitted by Rachel Schneider on Tue, 2009-12-01 13:30
Image Credit: Screenshot from Photosynth I was delighted this week to have Noel Radley introduce me to an interesting TED talk about Photosynth, a new imaging software created by Microsoft that not only incorporates the ability to get incredible close-ups on images, but also stitches photos together to create larger images. As they claim on their website, Photosynth “allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web.” The results, as you can see above, are fairly impressive. Obama's Design
Submitted by LaurenMitchell on Sat, 2008-04-05 00:31
As far as design goes, Obama has already won the presidency according to this New York Times article. |
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