Chris Watson interview on BBC Radio
An interview in the field with Chris Watson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02npwg1
Resources
The future of learning
An old friend and teacher (although I suspect he might prefer a term like facilitator) sent me a link to the following Ted Talk video by Sugata Mitra that he found particularly inspiring and fits in with his way of thinking. It discusses a little about the history of our current model of schooling and … Read more The future of learning
Iannix
I came across an interesting open-source “sequencer for digital art” called Iannix. It is quite versatile for creative use, but is essentially a way of interfacing digital drawing or art with sound synthesis. Check it out at: http://www.iannix.org/
Fixing Mac Mail Sent Items
If you’re a Mac Mail user and you use IMAP with your web hosting email, you can run into an issue where your Sent emails won’t save to the server (or anywhere for that matter) when you set up your Mail account. There are lots of possibilities for things to go wrong, but I found … Read more Fixing Mac Mail Sent Items
How speakers make sound
Here is a neat Animagraff that shows how convential cone speaker drivers work: http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
Burns Film Center Visual Glossary
The Burns Film Center has a really neat Visual Glossary which includes some film term definitions, along with great examples from proper commercial feature films. Pretty neat. The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to teaching literacy for a visual culture; presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world … Read more Burns Film Center Visual Glossary
Sh*t Audio Guys Say
Fairly amusing (and true)…
The Soundman Video
Pretty cool old short film showing the role of the “Soundman” for motion picture making:
The McGurk Effect
A good little reminder about The McGurk Effect: http://designingsound.org/2014/12/hearing-lips-and-seeing-voices-the-mcgurk-effect/
Great Cymatics Clip
This clip uses some techniques that one of my Installations class groups would have loved to have pulled off quite this well… CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.