Digital Art in LA Weekly
Today's LA Weekly features an article by Holly Willis on digital media art in Los Angeles which includes interviews with Naimark, Hoberman and Bleecker.
October 27, 2005
Today's LA Weekly features an article by Holly Willis on digital media art in Los Angeles which includes interviews with Naimark, Hoberman and Bleecker.
October 23, 2005
How the West Was Won in 3-strip Cinerama
From Chera...A rare screening of How the West Was Won in 3-Strip CINERAMA October 28 through November 3, 2005 at the Cinerama Dome.
How the West Was Won features a star-studded cast that includes Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Preston, James Stewart, and John Wayne. Directed by not one but three film directors, including the legendary John Ford, this epic broke box office records during its initial release in 1962.
The Cinerama Dome is one of a handful of theaters left in the world that has the capability to screen three-strip Cinerama. The technically and economically challenging Cinerama process, which used three simultaneous cameras to film and takes three separate projectors to exhibit, lasted only 12 years, and How the West Was Won is one of only two feature films to be produced, and the only one that has been restored.
October 11, 2005
Backchannel in USN&WR
Justin is quoted in a US News & World Report article on e-learning in higher education:
Last fall, University of Southern California interactive media grad student Justin Hall noticed his fellow students were text chatting or E-mailing in class. He suggested that instead they chat with one another in a "back channel," in essence passing virtual notes on questions about the seminar, like book titles and Web addresses.
The back-channel system was a hit and was added to the department's weekly speaker series. During each lecture there are 14 screens projected for the audience to view. The speaker fills some screens with information from the lecture, the attendees fill more screens with chats about the lecture, and another person--dubbed the "Google jockey" --fills the rest with websites in response to the speaker and the chat. "It becomes a collaborative presentation," Hall says.
London Eye
From Ghia... "This is a link to the website for the London Eye, otherwise known as the giant ferris wheel that sits on the South Bank. The view that it affords is stunningly similar to the one in the panorama book. It is also similar to the ascent of a hot air balloon although not as high. Click on "Eye View" and you can take a virtual tour."
October 07, 2005
1900 Paris expo panorama
The A short panoramic clip taken from the moving sidewalk at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris
October 06, 2005
Santa Monica Camera Obscura
The Santa Monica Camera Obscura is located at 1450 Ocean Avenue, just north of the SM pier. Open weekdays 9-4; weekends 11-4
3D IMAX movies at CA Science Center
Magnificent Desolation and Wild Safari 3D IMAX movies now playing at the California Science Center
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States at MoCA
The Ecstasy: In and About Altered States show opens at MoCA on Sunday 10/9.
Museum of Jurassic Technology
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is open Thurs 2:00-8:00; Fri-Sun 12:00-6:00
Doug Aitken at Regen Projects
The Doug Aitken show at Regen Projects in West Hollywood closes this Saturday 10/8!