Month: October 2007

Total 32 Posts

Speaking Of Visual Essays:

This 60-second piece on the 22nd Amendment is a stunner. Precisely edited, stridently political, and yet the whole thing plays with a casual no-big-deal understatement. ¶ Dear students: this is how it’s done.

Related:

  1. Stranger Than Fiction‘s opener, which is far better than the rest of the movie deserved.
  2. An Australia-based dating service lays out the odds of meeting someone in a bar. (A: Not good.)

Can We Dial The Hype Machine Down A Little Bit?

Okay, just so I’m clear, this is the next educational paradigm? Really? ¶ Rhetorical question: Wld yoโ€“ โ€“u reโ€“ad bโ€“log writ โ€“ te โ€“โ€“ en liike thiโ€“s? ¶ Ustream offers a choppy, low-res medium, one in which I’ll doubtlessly dabble soon, but one which pushes unedited, free-associative thought onto the careless vodcaster. I’m seeing streamcasts circling for thirteen minutes the same point one could make in a coupla body paragraphs. ¶ At least it’s new, though. New’s important. [via Vicki Davis]

Show and Tell: The New Bravia Advert

The final entry in the Bravia trilogy. Stop-motion plasticene bunnies take over Manhattan. (Man. Has anyone released a viral short in the last two months without stop-motion support? Seriously.) ¶ Awesome, if only ’cause I maintain a serious soft spot for rabbits, even if the whole thing is kinda overstuffed. (The bunnies turn into a wave which turns into a larger bunny which turns into … a bunch of color cubes. Um. Okay.) ¶ The other Bravia entries are well worth the zero dollars you’ll pay to watch them and the behind-the-scenes is good supplementary viewing. ¶ P.S. Anyone who knows what track is underlying the bunnies ad the behind-the-scenes gets a dollar. I’m sure it ain’t “Sæglópur,” so don’t try that one. [via everybody]