Category Archives: Media Space

American Life, This?

April 27, 2007 – 5:34 am

I caught Ira Glass on television last night. This American Life is an amazing radio program. I was a little leery of the visual version but was pleasantly surprised. TAL is an amazing offering. There’s nothing like it either on the radio or on television. Why, because even the modern pig farmer is trapped.

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HDMI and Wire Strangle

April 3, 2007 – 6:05 am

So, we recently upgraded to a DVR. I figured why go with 5 component cables into the TV when you could just use one. I didn’t know that HDMI would force an analogue signal to 4:3 aspect and so we now have 2 HDMI cables going into the TV, on top of the 5 component, [...]

By Steve | Also posted in New Media | Comments (3)

TV Redux

March 20, 2007 – 6:19 pm

At the moment, believe it or not, I’m watching Hawaii Five-0. I had forgotten about its stylized panorama. Drama of a different time.
Prior to play, my wife tried to turn the volume up by turning the black on/off circle on our Samsung television. She now lives in the world of the iPod. It was a [...]

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Transitions

March 17, 2007 – 7:43 pm

Over the last couple of years I’ve been taking pictures of transitions. The other day, during a cold, sunny morning, I walked into the kitchen and saw light making it’s way over a corner. I ran for the camera, knowing that taking photos of light and the patterns it makes is a tough thing to [...]

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Photo Closure

March 17, 2007 – 7:14 pm

After a game we usually stick around the table and play with the game goods, pieces, cards, chips, whatever. My son and I stack, arrange, and build.

So I decided to take some pictures of the results, a six stack pattern of Rummikub chips.

Thirty chips where there should be thirty six. The pattern isn’t symmetrical because [...]

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Windows Vista and Dumb Machines

March 11, 2007 – 7:48 pm

I don’t really want to harp on Vista but I’ve been working with it a little over the last week and am not enjoying the “easy of use.” For people unused to operating systems or basic design functionality since Windows 98, Vista will not make life easier. My first problem is with the desktop.
The [...]

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New Suxnut Weblog

March 7, 2007 – 8:51 pm

The Independent Thinker run by Dr. Rafaele Fierro is up. This will be a hub for Rafaele to engage students in history and government courses.
One of his first links cuts to Lawrence vs Texas. One of the reasoning lines in Lawrence points back to interesting determinations about the positions of married and unmarried persons [...]

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VA: Not!

March 6, 2007 – 6:39 am

The TV press keeps misrepresenting Walter Reed. WR is not run by the Veterans Administration.

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Systems Abroad

February 16, 2007 – 9:11 am

This story from Al Jazeera is only going to grow in size, I would assume, as more sources outside the US risk more questions and demands.

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Fun and Games

February 15, 2007 – 7:11 am

The Libby trial isn’t fun and games. So what to make of this New York Times article, For Liberal Bloggers, Libby Trial Is Fun and Fodder. Yup, professional journalists takes things like corruption and outright lying with the soberness they deserve. NYT can’t even determine whether the title of the weblog should or should not [...]

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Design Tests Complete

February 11, 2007 – 12:20 pm

For students or anyone else coming to this weblog you should not that a few things have changes. Lots of trimming going on around here.
First off, there is a new weblog in operation over at Courses. This weblog will act as a loci for the courses that I teach. I wont be posting a lot [...]

By Steve | Also posted in Teaching | Comments (1)

Conversations

November 14, 2006 – 9:00 pm

Chats
Had a nice chat with Spazeboy about weblogging, the recent elections in CT, and new media and look forward to his participation in the Perspectives course in the spring. He’s a nice guy and will add interesting perspective to the business of things. Tonight we discussed the future of new media, which is a major [...]

By Steve | Also posted in Culture, Fiction and Poetry | Comments (0)

Test Goes Public

June 19, 2006 – 1:17 pm

This weblog, dedicated to course material and conveyance (at least thus far), is now in the workable stage with feeds entering the sidebar and information content continually being added. I’m finding the theme somewhat confusing with staggered subject clusters, hindering contrasts between link and headings, and just odd dynamics between paragraphs. It’s not [...]

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Machines, Environment, and Learning

April 20, 2006 – 6:44 pm

Ruairi Glynn writes of Michael Fox
Michael Fox shows how interactive architecture doesn’t require a degree in computing, electronics, and architecture just to get things going. The combination of simple practical skills from these disciplines within a conceptual framework is capable of creating something much more exciting than the individual disciplines would appear to offer.

By Steve | Also posted in New Media | Comments (0)

Disorder

April 20, 2006 – 6:29 pm

From Carianne Mack and Malinda Theisman about their installation at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis:
The images we have created on the wall originated from each of our
apartments and represent piles of disorder in our everyday lives; a disheveled bed and an overflowing laundry basket. Our materials - shredded office paper, cardboard boxes [...]

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