http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/bloomberg-company-commits-1-million-to-hirshhorn-museum-project/
To top off some of the eccentric designs people create, someone is trying to create a giant inflatable bubble dome for meetings to be held in.
I am all about people being creative and showing off new and innovative projects that will catch the worlds eyes. But this is weird. What's weirder? The fact that it will cost $15 million dollars to build, or that NY Mayor Bloombergs company has donated $1 million to the cause.
Is this really what we need right now?
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Showing posts with label Erin McKinley. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Social Networking
When used properly, social networking sites can be a great thing. Facebook and Twitter are great ways to get your name out there and spread stories that interest or entertain you. However, if you are using twitter to tell people about every other minute of your day and post pictures of your sixteen year old self drunk, than you are an idiot.
Do you realize that potential employers now search the internet before they hire people? Which means that if they google search your name, your facebook or old myspace page will come up. There goes that job opportunity.
Moral of the story folks? Keep it clean online. Don't put anything on facebook that you would be embarrassed to let your grandparents see.
Do you realize that potential employers now search the internet before they hire people? Which means that if they google search your name, your facebook or old myspace page will come up. There goes that job opportunity.
Moral of the story folks? Keep it clean online. Don't put anything on facebook that you would be embarrassed to let your grandparents see.
Sometimes, you just need a hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/garden/23cheap.html?_r=1&hp
This is a great story about how the NY Times paired up an aspiring photographer on a cheap budget with a designer to help her decorate her new apartment. The article goes through the entire process of their redesign together.
I particularly like this article because it shows that sometimes, you just need someone else to look at something to see the beauty in it yourself. For example, they argue for a while over whether yellow, brown or pink are more appropriate colors for a wall.
This throws a lot of things into perspective. For example, if you need help, ask for it!
This is a great story about how the NY Times paired up an aspiring photographer on a cheap budget with a designer to help her decorate her new apartment. The article goes through the entire process of their redesign together.
I particularly like this article because it shows that sometimes, you just need someone else to look at something to see the beauty in it yourself. For example, they argue for a while over whether yellow, brown or pink are more appropriate colors for a wall.
This throws a lot of things into perspective. For example, if you need help, ask for it!
Family
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Here is my slideshow about my family. The focus of the slideshow is my grandfather. It starts by talking about his family and how they got to New York and then slowly progresses throughout his life.
Here is my slideshow about my family. The focus of the slideshow is my grandfather. It starts by talking about his family and how they got to New York and then slowly progresses throughout his life.
College
It never ceases to amaze me how friggen loud college dorms can be. At Stony Brook, a school that i is known for its science and technology schools, I don't understand why they can't build dorm rooms with thicker walls so students no longer have to hear the music of their neighbor. Or why Stony Brook can't figure out dorms that don't automatically slam and internet access that works 100% of the time.
What people who design college dorms fail to realize is that some people were apparently raised without manners, common courtesy or common sense. It is bad enough that people feel it is okay to blast their music at 3:30 in the morning, but if Stony Brook had thicker walls it wouldn't be so bad.
This school needs to realize that it is all well and good that they can do science stuff, but nobody is going to take them seriously if they can not even keep their own buildings running smooth and up to date on technology.
Oh, and to the person who has been blasting music all night for the past three nights, GET HEADPHONES!!!
What people who design college dorms fail to realize is that some people were apparently raised without manners, common courtesy or common sense. It is bad enough that people feel it is okay to blast their music at 3:30 in the morning, but if Stony Brook had thicker walls it wouldn't be so bad.
This school needs to realize that it is all well and good that they can do science stuff, but nobody is going to take them seriously if they can not even keep their own buildings running smooth and up to date on technology.
Oh, and to the person who has been blasting music all night for the past three nights, GET HEADPHONES!!!
Panda
When I was taking one of my many journalism classes last semester we learned about the Gestalt Theory of design. It was actually pretty interesting. When people are designing things, they take shapes and colors and put them together so that they look like something else.Take the panda from above as an example. It is the logo for WWF, the World Wildlife Foundation.While the image clearly looks like a panda bear, it is not technically a panda. In fact, it is a bunch of random shapes placed so they would resemble a panda. This is a perfect example of a panda bear. If the panda were complete, there would be a line across the top of the shape to finish the animal. Because there is no line, it is a bunch of well placed circles. It is a brilliant marketing campaign.
It is all about social interpretation. Some things you see and you associate it with something else. It is kind of like when you are younger and you look to the clouds to see what shapes you will see, except these shapes are on purpose.
Keep a look out on the web for more things like this, I guarantee that you will find them everywhere.
Iphone for sale!
shttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=1&ref=technology
It amazes me what people will do for technology. The Apple i phone is no doubt one of the hottest things on the market in the past few years. Almost everyone under the age of 60 has heard of it. It has completely revolutionized the way that people talk on the phone and search thee internet. But this is new.
Chinese buyers are coming to New York to buy used iPhones to re-sell in China at discounted prices. Who would have thought that something like a phone could revolutionize the world again and again.
It amazes me what people will do for technology. The Apple i phone is no doubt one of the hottest things on the market in the past few years. Almost everyone under the age of 60 has heard of it. It has completely revolutionized the way that people talk on the phone and search thee internet. But this is new.
Chinese buyers are coming to New York to buy used iPhones to re-sell in China at discounted prices. Who would have thought that something like a phone could revolutionize the world again and again.
Stop!
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/12/theater/20100912-theater-17.html
Why is it that people think they can tell everything about a show from a picture. Are you crazy?!
"No, I don't want to see that show, it looks weird..."
Sentences similar to this one are insane. How can you judge a show based on one picture. Or one book by the cover? New Yorkers, and most Americans for that matter, need to stop and slow down. Take a look at what you are doing. Enjoy the moment you are living in.
Why bother living if you are going to be judgmental and you are not going to take the time to enjoy anything in life?
Pokemon!
I am fully aware that I have just posted a Youtube video of a cheesy Pokemon spoof using real people. I posted this for a couple of reasons.
- It made me remember the days when I was little and completely obsessed with this show.
- I'm sure other people were also (and still are) obsessed with this show
- Because this video was created by a group of students.
So kudos to the students who made this. This is a great use of visual media to get people interested.
Reporting in China
Last summer I had the opportunity to go to China for two and a half weeks on a journalism trip in which we traveled the famous Silk Road. We did all sorts of reporting on the trip for a class blog that we were later graded on. As a relatively naive Irish girl from Queens who has only ever been to Canada, it goes beyond saying that I was completely out of my element. And yet, it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Not because of the different food (and when I say different, I mean different) but because of the fact that I can say that I did things most people cannot even dream of saying.
During that summer, I shot a bow and arrow off of the Great Wall of China, I rode a horse through the Gobi dessert, I saw ancient temples thousands of years older than the United States, and I did serious journalism reporting in a communist country that is vastly misunderstood by most Americans.
The most interesting thing about the trip to me was comparing Chinese news reporting to American news reporting. While we were there there were several riots happening throughout the country for religious reasons. Because of this, for two days we were without internet because the government had basically shut it down. When we were finally able to get back on, we were not able to access certain websites, like the New York Times. We were able to hear loosely translated Chinese broadcasts, but we got most of our news when parents began e-mailing copied texts from American newspapers. It was a surreal experience being in a country so far from home and knowing that something big was happening there, but never being quite sure what it was.
During that summer, I shot a bow and arrow off of the Great Wall of China, I rode a horse through the Gobi dessert, I saw ancient temples thousands of years older than the United States, and I did serious journalism reporting in a communist country that is vastly misunderstood by most Americans.
The most interesting thing about the trip to me was comparing Chinese news reporting to American news reporting. While we were there there were several riots happening throughout the country for religious reasons. Because of this, for two days we were without internet because the government had basically shut it down. When we were finally able to get back on, we were not able to access certain websites, like the New York Times. We were able to hear loosely translated Chinese broadcasts, but we got most of our news when parents began e-mailing copied texts from American newspapers. It was a surreal experience being in a country so far from home and knowing that something big was happening there, but never being quite sure what it was.
A thousand words...
Isn’t it funny how a picture can tell a thousand words? It’s also funny how nobody ever said the thousand words the picture tells are right, or wrong for that matter. I have here a picture of my grandparents on their wedding day. They look downright happy. Grandma looks pristine in her classic white lace wedding dress and grandpa seems to be glowing.
So who would have thought that three kids later they would be unhappy? Surely nobody would have guessed that four grandchildren later they would be divorced.
Next time you take a look at a picture, really look at it. Don’t try to simply see the obvious answer that is staring you in the face, but look deeper. Ask questions. Never just assume that what you see is correct.
Curate NYC
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/arts/design/22compete.html?ref=arts
Check out this art contest. New York City is spending $40,000 on the contest, Curate NYC, in an attempt to fuel artistry and to rejuvenate the troubled economy. This is great. With the troubles on wall street and in the job market people keep focusing on wall street executives getting bonus checks and unemployed businessmen (don’t get me wrong it is terrible that there are unemployed businessmen) but nobody seems to be focusing on the troubles of people who make their living as artists.
In the contest 150 winners will have their artwork printed on 5-inch by 6-inch postcards to be displayed in New York City. That has got to be awesome and an amazing way to network for an artist. With art it is all about who gets to see your work and if they want to see more of it. If someone sees your name on a postcard that could be the difference between someone interested in collaborating with you on something and buying a piece and not selling anything.
Check out the contest!
Sonia Nassery Cole
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/movies/22tulip.html?_r=1&ref=arts
Have you guys seen this story at the New York Times? It is about a film maker who is determined to shoot a film about the Taliban. What's the big deal? She filmed it in Afghanistan. She had to be the main star of the film because a few weeks before filming started her lead actress was captured and had both of her feet cut off in order to dissuade the producers and director from making the movie.
This just goes to show you that you can do anything that you set your mind to. It is stories like this that make the world of art interesting to me. I don't like the boring, look at this painting story, I read them, but this is more important. Film is art and art is passion.
I wonder what kind of movie she will make next, actually, I wonder if she will survive it.
Have you guys seen this story at the New York Times? It is about a film maker who is determined to shoot a film about the Taliban. What's the big deal? She filmed it in Afghanistan. She had to be the main star of the film because a few weeks before filming started her lead actress was captured and had both of her feet cut off in order to dissuade the producers and director from making the movie.
This just goes to show you that you can do anything that you set your mind to. It is stories like this that make the world of art interesting to me. I don't like the boring, look at this painting story, I read them, but this is more important. Film is art and art is passion.
I wonder what kind of movie she will make next, actually, I wonder if she will survive it.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Image manipulation
Isn't it weird how a picture can look like one thing to one person and something completely different to someone else? Or how you can look at a picture a thousand times and see something new each time. Like this picture, the first time I looked at it I automatically saw an old man. But when I looked at it closer I saw a man and a woman dancing and flirting. It is odd because I saw the old man first, but my sister saw the couple first. I guess it is all about perceptions.I have seen several pictures like this, where there is a couple hidden inside of an old man. I wonder how other people see them. What do you guys think sparks people to see one thing and someone else to see something different. I think it has to do with a couple of things. One, the side of your brain that you use more often. A person who uses the right side of their brain more is bound to see something differently than someone who uses the left side of their brain more. I also think life experiences will have an effect on how people interpret a picture.
What do you guys think? Do you have a picture that you see something new in every time?
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Family
Why is it that something that seems like complete common sense to one person seems like a foreign concept to someone else? My family sent me a bunch of pictures for this project. Pictures from boxes in attics that I have never seen of people whom I have never met. Yet, nobody thought they should tell me who these relatives are in the pictures. Really? Am I expected to just know family members I have never met before?
Another piece of un-related news that should be common sense. If you are riding your bike/skateboard/scooter on the sidewalk and you see a giant mob of people ahead of you, don't try to go through it!
Another piece of un-related news that should be common sense. If you are riding your bike/skateboard/scooter on the sidewalk and you see a giant mob of people ahead of you, don't try to go through it!
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