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birthday month : day one May Day

By: ste!!a
01-05-2010
birthday month

The first day of my birth­day month began slowly. A bit creaky, wak­ing from a late night to meet a dead­line. A quiet beginning.

May day many meanings…

May Day occurs on May 1st and refers to sev­eral pub­lic hol­i­days. In many coun­tries, May Day is syn­ony­mous with Inter­na­tional Work­ers’ Day, or Labour Day, a day of polit­i­cal demon­stra­tions and cel­e­bra­tions organ­ised by unions and other groups. May Day is also a tra­di­tional hol­i­day in many cul­tures.
- from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I’ve always enjoyed the fact that the first day of my month cel­e­brated labor. BTW, the ear­li­est May Day cel­e­bra­tions appeared in pre-Christian times, with the fes­ti­val of Flora, the Roman God­dess of flowers.

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poetry in motion

By: ste!!a
27-02-2010
listening

I have always loved poetry. It has drawn some of the most vivid pic­tures I have ever seen. In this case Ron­nie Bruce a film stu­dent at Tem­ple Uni­ver­sity visu­al­izes the words of poet Tay­lor Mali using typog­ra­phy and ani­ma­tion. In its’ exe­cu­tion we do not lose sight of the mean­ing or the pic­ture they draw — we gain new insight into the pac­ing and tone as the poet speaks. We read the words as the poet says them; bur­nish­ing them into our heart and mind.

This lit­tle film real­izes the poten­tial of com­mu­ni­ca­tors when they do good work. It is not spec­tac­u­lar. It is not just clever. It speaks, we think, and understand.

Typog­ra­phy from Ron­nie Bruce on Vimeo.

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beauty in numbers : cultural context

By: ste!!a
29-12-2008
reading, technology, unpredictable thoughts

Many Eyes

Got a tweet from Carl Mala­mud today that led me to this arti­cle about Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg. It’s always great to read about a whole yarn­ball of my inter­ests at one time. Cul­ture, infor­ma­tion, visu­al­iza­tion, and the mean­ing we can bring to data by cre­at­ing con­text. See an ongo­ing project at the TATE in the UK. ( MW2MW is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Marek Wal­czak and Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg. Started in 1997, both artists work inde­pen­dently but come together on long term projects such as Apart­ment, Won­der­walker, Think­ing Machine and Noplace.) http://www.mw2mw.com/

These exper­i­ments and jour­neys open up new ways to look at what we see each day in a new light.

The aes­thetic is a bit clumsy for my lik­ing still the work at the con­cep­tual level is very intrigu­ing and the visu­al­iza­tions shed light on the snap­shots he takes.

Take some time to enjoy these works. Inter­ested in your thoughts.

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