Topic: For professional photographers, their portfolios are their way of proving their “scholarship” to the world. The ability to showcase their portfolios through customized websites is a new media technology that photographers have embraced since day one. Most, like the famous war photographer James Nachtwey, have sparse sites with little navigation. The site IS the [...]
Thinking like a DJ
I’ve pulled some “sound bites” from DJ Spooky’s “Loops of Perceptions” article in hopes of breaking it down into something I can understand through linking central ideas. Each one begins with “think of” and ends with a series of linking ideas. “Think of DJ culture as a kind of archival impulse put to a kind [...]
Imagine That…
Those first few moments before you truly come awake in the morning can be your most creative. Your body is coming out of a REM cycle and whatever dreams you have dreamt through the night are still fresh in your mind, as detailed as they can be. Then, the alarm goes off. You’re all business [...]
Welcome… to the Matrix
Welcome to the Bank of Imagination. Is it what you thought it would be? Did you expect a pristine, white space, like in The Matrix? Did you imagine hearing a calm, digitized voice welcoming you inside to deposit your bit of daily wisdom? Was the last thing you expected to see a page full of [...]
