Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
my experience at good.
what a great site! full of fun, unique and quirky things, good.is is a great place to go catch up on some earth-friendly news and tips. i really liked this video that re-capped the year 2008. the facts are simple and to-the-point, and it's quite an eye-opener too.
Monday, February 23, 2009
my final bookcovers
concept statement:
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
to suggest:
to suggest fantasy and fiction
to suggest a sense of mystery
to suggest use your imagination
to suggest finding your inner child
to suggest a somewhat scary story
to suggest what’s behind the unopened door
to suggest a magical place
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
to suggest:
to suggest fantasy and fiction
to suggest a sense of mystery
to suggest use your imagination
to suggest finding your inner child
to suggest a somewhat scary story
to suggest what’s behind the unopened door
to suggest a magical place
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
i have a dream
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
10:55-11:47
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
“I Have A Dream” is the popular name given tp the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites, among others, would coexist harmoniously as equals. King’s delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[1] According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, “Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.”[2]
At the end of the speech, Dr. King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of “I have a dream”, possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson’s cry, “Tell them about the dream, Martin!”.[3] He had delivered a speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Reverend C. L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.[4]
wikipedia.com
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Who is speaking, Why was/is the speech important to society? Why do you feel in is important or interesting? What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? How does it make you feel? How do imagine that the audience felt? Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
Martin Luther King Jr. is speaking in this audio clip. It is about his famous “I have a Dream” speech. This speech was important to society because he was talking about how he wanted to world to be equals, no matter the color of your skin. The tone of the speech is very serious. It is about pride and is somewhat sad when you consider things from the side of a black person during this time. He is confident and convincing and really gets the message across. The majority of the speech is loud with cheering and yelling in the background from supporters. “I have a dream” is emphasized intensely, and his voice dims down as he explains what his dream is and comes back with emphasis in different parts. I imagine the audience felt very uplifted and excited. I feel that this day gave blacks the hope they were looking for, to someday be considered as the equivalent to the white american.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
10:55-11:47
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
“I Have A Dream” is the popular name given tp the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites, among others, would coexist harmoniously as equals. King’s delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[1] According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, “Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.”[2]
At the end of the speech, Dr. King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of “I have a dream”, possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson’s cry, “Tell them about the dream, Martin!”.[3] He had delivered a speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Reverend C. L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.[4]
wikipedia.com
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Who is speaking, Why was/is the speech important to society? Why do you feel in is important or interesting? What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? How does it make you feel? How do imagine that the audience felt? Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
Martin Luther King Jr. is speaking in this audio clip. It is about his famous “I have a Dream” speech. This speech was important to society because he was talking about how he wanted to world to be equals, no matter the color of your skin. The tone of the speech is very serious. It is about pride and is somewhat sad when you consider things from the side of a black person during this time. He is confident and convincing and really gets the message across. The majority of the speech is loud with cheering and yelling in the background from supporters. “I have a dream” is emphasized intensely, and his voice dims down as he explains what his dream is and comes back with emphasis in different parts. I imagine the audience felt very uplifted and excited. I feel that this day gave blacks the hope they were looking for, to someday be considered as the equivalent to the white american.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
movie title sequences
All of these movie title sequences were excellent choices. Of them my favorites were Catch Me If You Can, Spiderman 2 and Casino Royale.
Why they are my favorites:
Catch Me If You Can
I really like how the letters extend and create different doors and lights and other elements. I also like how the people move in and out of the typography. The music is great. Very "try and find me" kind of vibe. I really like the simple 2-D graphics used. Also in this, a limited color palette helped. The transitions in this piece were absolutely magnificent. Very nicely put together.
Spiderman 2
I really like the use of the old-school comic book in this one...it is only fitting! The transitions are nice, even when it goes from the 2-D graphic novel style to the more modern 3-D appearance. I really thought they did a nice job with the characters and including photos, but still kept that sketched feel. The introduction of names and characters was simple, but with everything else being so bold around them it ended up working out very well.
Casino Royale
This movie title sequence is just awesome. I love when the gun shoots and the people being shot transition into one of the suits of cards and fall to the ground. It is so interesting and visually entertaining. I love the transitions with bullets and pieces falling and the movement this piece creates.
youtube videos
Of all the youtube videos, there were quite a few that stuck out in my mind, for certain reasons. They all had interesting transitions and effects that emphasize what they really want to viewer to take out. Turning the sound on an off made quite a difference. The background music set a different kind of theme while the type still emphasized other things. I thought the mood and feel brought by the music was interesting, but in some cases didn't add too much. Most of the thoughts were expressed through the typography. These are some of my favorites:
I Love NY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbvFoX5lG9oThe whole "feel" to this video is kind of city-like to me. It represents the blocks of a city and moving throughout. I love how the type creates a "boxy" feel. The transitions are so interesting. Graphics are included in this one as well, but they aren't over-the-top. They are just enough to add another element, but not take away from the art of typography. The music gave it a bubbly, happy, never-been-here-before feeling and I think it worked well.
Live Out Loud-Kinetic Typography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAoaNMM-xcThis one was probably my favorite. It was very simple, yet had so much energy and expression. I feel like I got almost as much from it with the music off. I did like the contrast between the sweet, melodramatic feel of the cello playing in contrast to the yelling. It was an interesting transition and that I feel turned out very well.
Motion type-Almost Famous-I'm On Drugs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbwk27Nwi7c
I didn't like this one. It had to much going on. The background was distracting, the font choice and "glowing" elements didn't look good, and it took away from the just of the piece. If they would have put it on a solid black or white background that would have helped from the beginning. I think it is better to stick with one or two fonts and just play with size and emphasis in other ways.
Experimental Type in Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2PVmcJhEQUI really liked this one for many reasons. She used a textured background but kept her color palette limited, for less distraction. The way the words grew and shrank was very interesting. Parts of a letter extended off and went back in space which made for interesting transitions. I also liked the way that the a letter would fill a page and become a background for the next. I also thought it was interesting at the end when she place a bunch of words around this square which then turned into being the bottom of the question mark. Loved it.
We Are Designers-TVC-Typography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KVaypqlqxIThis was another simple, yet effective one. I liked what the music added. The words vibrate with the sounds and you almost wonder why they are so much without the sound on. Again, a limited color palette and use of fonts was good. Nicely done.
The Perfect Drug Typography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHoJcOiMAII didn't think much of this one, other than I wanted to change a lot of things I saw. The bright blue on the maroon is absolutely horrible at the beginning. The font choice could have also been better. I think sans serif fonts with that blocky feel create the smoothest transitions, or at least something not so close to the monospacing and serifs of courier new. There were a couple of parts to the piece that were interesting like the use of masking somewhere in the middle. Good concept, just needs work.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
jakob trollback
This lecture series was SO interesting. The idea of motion graphic never really interested me, but after seeing Mr. Trollback's work I was fascinated. His ideas and transitions are so unique, and entertaining...and so POWERFUL. My favorite video was the one at the very beginning of part 1 of 3 lectures. It had to do with things being one thing, or another. Most of the time opposites. It's is something that I think we as a society fail to think about. A lot of things are going on in the world around us that we fail to pay attention to. I have found a new interest in motion graphics...I want to learn it myself!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
bruce mau & my manifesto
- Process is more important than outcome.When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
Bruce Mau is quite intriguing. I am in love with the list on his Incomplete Manifesto. I am printing it out and keeping a copy by where I do all my work...it's great inspiration.
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