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What caughts the eye?
With newspapers and magazines, people rarely read them from cover to cover. In the Gestalt textbook, it mentions that people look at the picture first in the newspapers, then read the caption, and then the headline. If all that still seems interesting then a person reads the article ( Read more... ) -
Book by its cover
Their is old over-used phrase "Never judge a book by its cover." While good advice, I find the visual on the cover dictates whether I pick up the book. It is different if I am searching for a certain author or title, but if I am not, I notice it is covers that make all the difference.
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Old Special Effects... did that ever look realistic?
At lunch today, the topic of special effects came up. One of my friends mention the movie Jumanji, which came out in 1995 and said she could not believe that the monkeys were ever real.
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Power in Photos
I was looking at photos on the newyorktimes.com and a gallery caught my eye. The title was Salvador and I had recently done a project on El Salvador. While these picture are from Brazil, I decide to look through the gallery.
A Weekend in Salvador, Brazil
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Food for thought- I wish I could eat that photo.
I was out to Chevy's tonight, celebrating a friend's belated birthday, and I could not help to notice how the visual appearance of the menu effects what you order. I do not know how many times I have fought between what sounds good as a plate description, what I have exprienced as delicious, and what looks good. Sometimes even after trying a dish ( Read more... ) -
Collecting Dolls- Art expression or perserving childhood?
So my suit mate is doll collector of Japanese style dolls. She has so many that she has either put together her self or brought from other people. And these style dolls have different body types, paint their faces, add and style wigs. Each one seems to express a different personality.
Here are some of the dolls she owns. The one on the left is ( Read more... ) -
First impression on Wikis
We started presenting our wiki sites today. As I was watching the groups that presented (my group or two others) I was hit with different impression from each.
My group wiki models a wikipedia page.
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Interacting with Visuals
This blog is for a class about visuals and Web 2.0. I have recycled an old user name from a forum I had with friends five years ago. If you recognize this name, let me know and then maybe we can reconnect.
