Notes from Seminar: 2.1.08

Seminar: February 1, 2008

Attendance: Brian, Pete, Michelle, Tory, Mollie, Jeremy, Maria

 

 

“Show and Tell” websites

• Brian:
  • Rebuilding the Ninth Ward (url address unknown)
  • Podcast interviews with a picture showing the person speaking: frame the questions, the entire structure is based on how the question is framed; you can’t remove yourself completely from the process (dishonest?)
  • Took about 45 minutes to do a 3-minute interview
• Pete:
  • (website unknown: google Daniel Meadows? Photobus?)
  • Digital storytelling: Photobus
  • [we watched “Scissors by Daniel Meadows”]
  • 2 min. 12 seconds, digital storytelling
  • Shows examples of digital storytelling (audio tells a story with photographs and movement of photographs illustrating the ideas, concepts, plot) so that other people can attempt it
  • Resources: tutorials
• Michelle:
  • Polar Inertia
  • http://www.Polarintertia.com
  • Journal of nomadic and popular culture
  • Online magazine (every two months), photographs, not a lot of text
  • Some text describing the photo journal and then there are 10-15 pictures to describe a particular topic, culture, or thing [we looked at the scooters of Ho Chi Minh in the May/June 2005 archives)
  • Photographers send in their photographs to the site and they put them in the magazine
• Michelle:
  • http://monocle.com/sections/design
  • Pictures and talking at the same time
  • [looked at the “Arcana Hotel” reportage]
  • Magazine on art/culture: aimed at well-travelled, well-educated person; interesting cultural tidbits [Brian’s friend works for the magazine]
• Tory:
  • http://www.slopeinternational.org
  • [watched Experience Poverty in Laos]
  • Documentaries, podcasts, news/issues page; also you can log-in and submit your own
  • Very similar to what we’re looking for to do with Placemaker, add tutorials and information on how to create and use multimedia
• Tory:
  • http://www.terrain.org
  • Blogs on the built and natural environment (fits with theme)
• Brian:
  • http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/intro.html
  • Sociologist and photographer
  • Navigate through maps; take you to a view of a certain area
• Brian:
  • Robin Amer: Reconstructing Eagle Square
  • All audio; intro and interviews
• Khairul/Professor Forester:
  • Mapping of Route 66, can click on different spots on google map and pictures and information pops up about the location
  • http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google-mm&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=route66
• Brian:
  • http://bldgblog.blogspot.com
  • Blogs about the built environment (image and text)

 

Brainstorming our interests:

Podcasts

Photos combined with interviews of people’s experience (Halpern)

Audio slideshows

Photography

 

Mondays for “Lunch” meetings if necessary