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Alive in Baghdad is a video blog describing Iraqi everyday life from a local perspective. Brian Conley,a journalist and film director, is its creator. It is a great example for new methods to support citizen journalism around the world. Brian is an American who trained a small group of Iraqi journalists who prepare the articles for [...] I just got back from the Beckett Shorts production – a collection of short Beckett plays at the New York Theatre Workshop directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and featuring new music by Philip Glass with video by my good friend Mirit Tal. Eh Joe is the fourth play in the lineup, and is [...] I’ve recently been enjoying the NYtimes multimedia feature. This latest one is a set of interviews with people who live in the Gaza strip. Different local perspectives on their lives and feeling towards the deteriorating political situation. It is a series of well-taken photographs placed in a slideshow along with translated audio of their interviews. [...] A beautiful project by Jiyeon Song of the Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design. Check out the video here I was impressed by its simplicity, yet powerful message. It is a patent pending method, where Jiyeon takes advantage of the changing angle of sunlight to project different messages within the pavilion throughout the day. Just got back from the Art Center College of Design end of semester show, extremely impressed and inspired. These kids do an amazing job setting up the space, really thinking about the information design and the viewer experience in the space. Much of the work is conceptual (imaginary products or environments). But the effort placed [...] Over the past semester I’ve been helping out with the Super Studio Design class that Lisa Nugent and Sean Donahue teach at the Media Design Program @ Art Center College of Design. My part is to understand technology and possibilities to leverage it within their cultural probes design. During the past semester most of the [...] I wrote this post several weeks ago on failing to follow the rules. This topic came up again as I was writing a recent Global Voices post. There, I described a blogger’s opinion on the Israeli teachers union response to the court ruling, placing a deadline for their strike to end by issuing a restraint [...] Lisa Nugent asked me to take a look at this initiative. An interesting OS hardware platform for die-hard DIY gadget geeks. Their website left me with many questions, but I gathered some info from engadget and gizmodo. This product “explores the realm of personalized devices and applications” and tries to solve problems that current gadgets [...] Hanukkah is just around the corner. Definitely my favorite of the Jewish holidays, it has interesting historical value and deals with issues relevant to our current-day culture (not only in Israeli). It celebrates the victory of the Israelites over the ancient Greeks in a series of battles taking place around the year 165 BC. This [...] |
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