robertogreco + comics   236

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
"A lyrical encyclopedia of visual proportions…Rugged design in opposition to elegance…It's bigger than you could ever think—just explore—no clues from me…big letter and no fancy-dan embroidery—on opposition to the fey…"

"This site records a range of material dedicated to the study of the Visual Narrative. The original site, intended by me for part-time students and other interested parties was closed down by the University of Brighton in 2004. I was subsequently denied access to the original images most of which, however, were in my own collection. I have developed the site on a daily basis thereafter. It remains exclusively educational and is in constant use. Many thanks to those in the UK and beyond who shared my irritation at events. Contact me on chris@fulltable.com "
writing  stories  narrativesequences  magazines  _narrative  film  treasure  susia  philbeard  rebeccamarywilson  hypertext  ruthrix  janecouldrey  clarestrand  grammercypark  petruccelli  jackiebatey  jaynewilson  dickbriel  chrismullen  america  visual  visualcodes  advertising  comics  classideas  tcsnmy  srg  edg  glossary  reference  books  images  visualization  wcydwt  art  design  illustration  storytelling  via:litherland 
january 2012 by robertogreco
prosthetic knowledge • One Page Graphic Novel: The Thames Megalodon The...
The above image appears to be some kind of map, but is actually an attempt to tell a big story within one frame. In a way, it is a game of narrative, as there is a list of important points to make as you guide yourself through it.

From the creaor, Henry Flint:

"Welcome to a new story telling medium… the One Page Graphic Novel. Is this a gimmick? Yes, probably.

Keith is a dustman who is shot into the future by a Time Vortex. He meets three companions and they start an epic adventure and It’s up to you to fill in the gaps."

A higher resolution version of the image can be found at Henry’s site here [click on the map]"

[See also: http://henryflint.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/one-page-graphic-novel-2/ ]
mapping  maps  comics  henryflint  boardgames  games  srg  edg  classideas  storytelling  graphicnovels  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Matt Jones & Jack Schulze, “Immaterials” on Vimeo
"Matt Jones and Jack Schulze will explore a cross-section of recent and ongoing work from BERG, examining how the design of products and services comes from working intimately with the materials of your domain, even if they are intangible—like radio or data."

[Diagram at 16:33 mark reminds me of my interest in audiences of one.]
design  materialsim  jackschulze  mattjones  weakties  dunbar  dunbarnumber  materiality  audiencesofone  berg  berglondon  immaterials  smallgroups  groupsize  stongbonds  2011  data  comics  michelgondry  time  radioactivity  touch  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Calvin and Hobbes and the Trouble with Nostalgia | Splitsider
"In an explanation of Hobbes’s dual reality (a living, breathing, wiseass wild tiger to Calvin, and a stuffed animal to everyone else), Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson explains “I show two versions of reality, and each makes complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that’s how life works.” We see the world through Calvin’s eyes. This perspective distinguishes the strip from Peanuts, in which kids talk like adults, or Cathy or Doonesbury, in which adults talk like adults. Watterson constantly fought with Universal Press Syndicate and newspapers to get more space, and to break the rigid rules of comic strip formats in order to formally explore Calvin’s imagination. As a result, no daily comic in wide circulation during the Nineties provided such regular and creative insights into a child’s interior life. In Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson takes us inside Calvin’s dreams, his fears, and the stories that he makes up for himself."
calvinandhobbes  nostalgia  comics  books  edg  srg  classideas  perception  billwatterson  reality  children  childhood  multiplicity  parenting  intelligence  imagination  memory  1990s  patience  ondemand  2011  sadness  loneliness  alienation  school  experience  structure  confusion  ajaronstein  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Schwa (art) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Schwa is the underground conceptual artwork of Bill Barker (born 1957). Barker draws deceptively simple black and white stick figures and oblong alien ships. However the artwork is not about the aliens: it is about how people react to the presence of the aliens and Barker uses them as a metaphor for foreign and unknown ideas. Schwa became an underground hit in the 1990s."<br />
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[via: http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/06/27/evolving-an-imaginary-logo/ ]
billbarker  art  comics  design  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
An Alternative To Comic-Con | KPBS.org
"A small convention for artists and comic book creators is positioning itself as the antidote to Comic-Con. "Tr!ckster" will be held directly across the street from Comic-Con, running for six days, July 19-24th (concurrent with the Con)"
comic-con  comics  sandiego  2011  conferences  events 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Interview with Chris Ware Part 1 of 2 « The Comics Journal
"This interview was conducted in front of a live audience in May 2010 at Komiks.dk, the international Copenhagen comics festival. Ware was an official guest of the festival and his visit coincided with the Danish publication of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. I concentrated on that book, but also tried to address more general issues in Ware’s work and extended the discussion to his current books.<br />
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I found it an inspiring talk, to the extent that I went a wrote an essay on the book, posted nearby. My thanks to Mr. Ware for graciously accepting to do it, and for sitting through what was no doubt an extended ordeal for him.<br />
I am grateful to Henry Sørensen for transcribing the interview."<br />
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—Matthias Wivel<br />
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[Part 2:  http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/interview-with-chris-ware-part-1-of-2/2/]
comics  chrisware  interviews  2011  creativity  graphicnovels  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Five Card Flickr
"This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud & the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics.<br />
However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the old Nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos specified by a tag in flickr. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.<br />
When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom…Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story or use an embed code to add it to your own web site.<br />
What do they look like? What a fantastic question you ask!<br />
We have a growing collection of mixed bag stories…"
writing  flickr  english  storytelling  classideas  fivecardnancy  scottmccloud  images  comics  photography  via:cburell  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
scottmccloud.com - Five Card Nancy
"Five Card Nancy is a Dada card game using cut-up panels from Ernie Bushmiller's long-running 20th Century comic strip Nancy. Here are the official rules if you want to make your own deck and try it out. Special thanks to Barry Deutsch whose Usenet post in late ‘98 gave me the jumping off point for the write-up.<br />
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You're looking at pictures of fish because I'm too lazy to argue with United Media's lawyers."
comics  games  storytelling  humor  cards  cardgames  diy  scottmccloud  fivecardnancy  dada  dadaism  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
A humble plea to Alan Moore and Banksy - Neven Mrgan's tumbl
"I want the world we live in to include a comic book written by Alan Moore & drawn by Banksy…<br />
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They’re both hypereducated, well-spoken British gentlemen with a wicked anarchist bend, a sort of giddy nihilism at the midpoint between the extremes of love for the human animal and complete disgust with it. They have very little shit to give for society’s rules that keep things in order, but they’re almost clinically empathetic of the individual. & they’re damn funny, on top.<br />
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Look, Banksy is practically already a Moore character (V, of course.) As for Moore, his sleeveless attire, wizard-beard, and baby smile are made for a Banksy piece; maybe he holds a bouquet of tulips over a Detroit slum, I don’t know. Their hometowns - which I bet they’re both awfully nostalgic about - are 100 miles from each other. Moore can curl up in his bed with his notebook and his tea while Banksy flies to LA or Tripoli or wherever, and how could they not churn out gold? Let me have this fantasy, alright."
banksy  alanmoore  comics  anarchism  empathy  writing  art  illustration  nevenmrgan  humans  lovehate  society  rules  cv  nihilism  people  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Letters of Note: Be your own self. Love what YOU love.
"When asked in 1991 to describe an obstacle he had faced during his lifetime and the subsequent effect of his overcoming it, author Ray Bradbury replied to schoolteacher William Stanhope with the following letter. His inspiring response, along with those of a slew of other high-profile personalities, was then used to teach a class of Stanhope's.<br />
Transcript follows."<br />
"most important decision i ever made came at age 9...i was collecting BUCK ROGERS comic strips, 1929, when my 5th grade classmates made fun of me. I tore up the strips. A week later, broke into tears. Why was I crying? I wondered. Who die? Me, was the answer. I have torn up the future. What to do about it? Start collecting BUCK ROGERS again. Fall in love with the Future! I did just that. And after that never listened to one damnfool idiot classmate who doubted me! What did I learn? To be myself and never let others, prejudiced, interfer with my life. Kids, do the same. Be your own self. Love what YOU love."
raybradbury  future  education  passion  childhood  classmates  buckrogers  1991  1929  comics  emotions  doubt  williamstanhope  correspondence  personality  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
SVK
Website for the BERG London + Warren Ellis publication experiment.
berg  berglondon  warrenellis  comics  publishing  experimentalpublication  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Daniel Johnston's "Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness" by Daniel Johnston — Kickstarter
"We're bringing the long awaited first full-length comic book by legendary musician and artist Daniel Johnston to his loyal fans. Donations will fund the creation, production, and manufacture of "Daniel Johnston's Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness."<br />
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The project will be much more than just a standard comic book…although a standard comic book by Daniel Johnston would be anything but standard and certainly worth funding. The "Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness" will combine the unique and brilliant characters, images and words of Daniel Johnston along with Daniel's amazing music, and the musical and artistic contributions of fans, to create a one-of-a-kind interactive comic book experience…"
danieljohnston  music  comics  kickstarter  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
russell davies: a this for a that
"There are three things I really want to see.<br />
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1. Stories written for the the kindle - that use 'kindleyness' the way novels use 'bookiness'.<br />
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2. Music made for the shuffle - pieces designed to appear randomly but still hang together. More than a bunch of songs. And long too, filling up a shuffle, hours worth of it.<br />
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3. Comics made for an iPad. Something that's not just a port of a comic, that combines words and pictures in a way that exploits the iPad's capabilities."
russelldavies  kindle  ipad  comics  stories  media  creativity  newcanvasesneednewcontent  music  shuffle  flow  books  novellas  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Sad Comics App for iPad
"Need a good laugh? How about a good cry? Sad Comics will make you do both (possibly at the same time)! This new series written and illustrated by one of today’s most talented artists is now available for the iPad."
comics  ipad  applications  ios  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The Nerdy Teacher: Stranger Than Fiction?
"took me 2 years & tons of leg work to create a Graphic Novel Class. (officially Pictorial Lit because community might be bothered by class w/ word graphic in it.) I saw a hole in curriculum for certain group of students & thought a class that had different offerings would appeal to them.<br />
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I teach Bone by Jeff Smith as an Epic Novel comparing it to The Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings & Star Wars. I also teach Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Maus by Art Spiegelman & graphic versions of Poe & Twain Short Stories. I also do a cool Dystopian Novel Unit using Watchmen, Dark Knight, V for Vendetta & Kingdom Come. Our textbook is Scott McLoud's Understanding Comics. It's been an an exciting class that is run no differently than any other literature based class. I'm constantly tweaking it & is better this year than it was last. It's time for curricula to change around the country. No longer are classics of my youth (high school in 90s) the classics of today's classroom."
fiction  teaching  classideas  graphicnovels  comics  literature  tcslj  reading  education  engagement  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
'He Wears the Mask Just to Cover the Raw Flesh' - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Culture - The Atlantic
"Comics are so often seen as the province of white geeky nerds. But, more broadly, comics are the literature of outcasts, of pariahs, of Jews, of gays, of blacks. It’s really no mistake that we saw ourselves in Doom, Magneto or Rogue."
culture  comics  ta-nehisicoates  outcasts  pariahs  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Announcing SVK: an experimental publication by Warren Ellis, D’Israeli & BERG – Blog – BERG
"What is SVK?<br />
It’s going to be a very beautifully-printed object – a graphic novella, drawn by one of our very favourite artists – Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker – who Warren collaborated with on “Lazarus Churchyard” back in 1991. I think I’m right in saying it’s their first major collaboration since then…<br />
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We can’t tell you too much more just yet, as they are both currently hard at work on it, but Warren describes SVK as “Franz Kafka’s Bourne Identity”.<br />
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Brilliant.<br />
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It’s also a story about looking, and it’s an investigation into perception, storytelling and optical experimentation that inherits some of the curiosities behind previous work of the studio such as our Here & There maps of Manhattan.<br />
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For us – it’s also an investigation into new ways to get things out in the world, and as a result we’re talking about SVK now because we’re looking for people, brands and companies who would like to be in the SVK project… "
berg  warrenellis  design  comics  graphicnovels  berglondon  mattjones  hereandthere  kafka  bourne  bourneidentity  looking  observation  towatch  storytelling  perception  noticing  communication  publishing  svk  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Comic Chat « Snarkmarket
"did not know that a thing called Microsoft Comic Chat ever existed, but now I want it to exist again. Ideally as a web app. Ideally with the option to save comic-chats and post them on your blog.<br />
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Check out the expression selector in the lower right corner! Seriously—I love this."
microsoftcomicchat  comics  comicchat  microsoft  snarkmarket  chat  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Great Teacher Onizuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"seeing this display of a teacher's power over girls, decides to become a teacher himself. In his quest, he discovers 2 important things: He has a conscience & a sense of morality. This means taking advantage of impressionable schoolgirls is out…; He enjoys teaching & most of the time, he teaches life lessons rather than routine schoolwork; He hates the systems of traditional education, especially when they have grown ignorant & condescending to students & their needs.<br />
W/ these realizations, he sets out to become greatest teacher ever, using his own brand of philosophy & ability to do nearly anything even when under enough pressure. He is hired as a long-shot teacher by privately operated school to tame class that has driven 1 teacher to a mysterious death, one to nervous breakdown, & one to joining a cult. He embarks on a mission of self-discovery by breaking through to each student one by one, & helping each student to overcome their problems & learn to genuinely enjoy life."
teaching  manga  anime  comics  unschooling  deschooling  toread  schools  education  learning  well-being  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Reboot (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The term reboot, in media dealing with serial fiction, means to discard much or even all previous continuity in the series and start anew with fresh ideas. Effectively, all established fictive history is declared by the writer(s) to be null and void, or at least irrelevant to the new storyline, and the series starts over as if brand-new.<br />
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Through reboots, film franchises are revamped and reinvigorated to attract new fans and stimulate economic revenue. Therefore, reboots can be seen as attempts to rescue franchises which have grown "stale". They can also be a "safe" project for a studio, as a reboot with an established fan base is less risky (in terms of expected profit) than an original work."
comics  culture  film  reboot  fiction  serialfiction  classideas  writing  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Ten Things to Know About the Future of Comics - comiXology
"1. Newspaper comics are dead… 2. Monthly comic books are dead… 3. Format is infinitely mutable… 4. The audience is infinitely fragmented… 5. But there is a canon… 6. Superheroes are not comic-book characters… 7. Manga has changed the game… 8. The line between fans and creators is razor-thin… 9.They are mostly girls… 10. They are very good at making comics."
2010  comics  publishing  books  via:preoccupations  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
FreakAngels
"FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield"
warrenellis  freakangels  comics  free  online  scifi  steampunk  daily  webcomics  apocalypse  toread  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Javier Arce's Wardian case - How to meet a girl
"# First, watch your dad draw on placemats at a restaurant.<br />
# Then you should start drawing on every piece of scrap paper that you can find.<br />
# Start reading comic books. A good place to start is at a Meijer’s Thrifty Acres store, with X-Men, preferably issue #192.<br />
# Have a creative-type friend rope you into making a ‘zine’, even though you dont know what a ‘zine’ is yet.<br />
# Stop reading superhero comics and start reading artsy comics from european artists like Moebius (A.K.A. Jean Giraud)<br />
# Stop copying your drawings from the superhero comics also.<br />
# Have a paper route to found your purchase of edgy North American comics like Eightball and Dirty Plotte.<br />
# Stop reading comics and sell off your entire collection, because you’re going to college and you’ll need money.<br />
# Stop drawing comics and focus on real art like painting and writing poetry. …"
humor  howto  jeffreybrown  comics  art  drawing  cicumstance  life  coincidence  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I'll Never be an Adult
"I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has grown, but the results of exceeding it have not changed.
adulthood  humor  comics  daily  procrastination  productivity  psychology  health  responsibility  housework  tedium  via:blackbeltjones  distraction  sleep  insomnia 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Homeopathy [via: http://twitter.com/paleofuture/status/17758089838]
"A 19 page strip about homeopathy. My follow up story-strip to the one I did on the MMR vaccine scare, and another chapter of my ongoing book about science. This is, in effect, the beta version of the strip."
darrylcunningham  belief  homeopathy  pseudoscience  science  medicine  health  culture  quackery  comics  controversy  criticalthinking  investigation  research 
july 2010 by robertogreco
The Center for Cartoon Studies
"The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes. The school is located in historic downtown village of White River Junction, Vermont, in the old Colony Surprise Department Store."
academia  graphicnovels  comics  drawing  colleges  education  schools  art  cartoons  illustration 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing
"If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you.
corydoctorow  freedom  hardware  opinion  publishing  journalism  ipad  consumption  comics  closed  business  boingboing  apple  drm  culture  ebooks  internet  technology  open  media 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Molleindustria
"Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication. Our objective is to investigate the persuasive potentials of the medium by subverting mainstream video gaming clichè (and possibly have fun in the process)."
activism  mcdonalds  videogames  seriousgames  satire  comics  design  culture  politics  religion  gaming  media  netart 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Down Argentine Way
"“I saw a really bad knockoff of one of my characters painted on a kiosk, and I felt like ‘Yes! I’ve finally made it!’  ” says Argentina’s Ricardo Siri Liniers, known by his nom de comics, Liniers. The artist is referring to one of the newsstands that line the streets of Buenos Aires and that sell an eclectic mix of magazines, comics, and high-brow literature. Homemade paintings of well-known comics characters often adorn the city’s kiosks: Homer Simpson is a favorite. For Liniers, the newsstand homage was proof of his growing influence in the Argentine comics scene, and of a movement from obscurity to cult status."
liniers  macanudo  buenosaires  argentina  comics  illustration 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Panelfly | Revolutionizing Mobile Comics | iPad
"Introducing Panelfly iPad - we're happy to announce that an optimized version of the popular comic book reader will be available for the iPad release in March 2010."
ipad  comics  applications  software  iphone  panelfly 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Super Colossal » Joe the Barbarian [via: http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5221]
"Where I think it becomes interesting is that the next seven issues of the eight issue series will document parallel journeys through the house. One where we follow Joe descending through the house from the attic to the basement (where I am assuming his medication is?) and the other where he follows a a Narnian/Wizard of Oz like adventure populated by his toys and the contents of the house.
grantmorrison  comics  toread  tcsnmy  houseofleaves  books 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Gaiman, Morrison, and the strange substratum « Snarkmarket
"But this is the impor­tant part: I think if you look on any writer’s shelf in TV or Hol­ly­wood, you’ll find Mor­ri­son. That’s def­i­nitely true of writ­ers of shows like Bat­tlestar Galac­tica and LOST. Yes—in fact, LOST is basi­cally a TV series writ­ten by Grant Mor­ri­son. It’s his techno-occultism, his rain­bow sophis­ti­ca­tion. Comic-book adven­ture meets quan­tum foam meets Rider-Waite. I really believe the writ­ing staff at LOST would cop to it."
snarkmarket  robinsloan  grantmorrison  neilgaiman  lost  writing  comics  toread  battlestargalactica  adventure 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Ask the Author Live: Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman: Ask the Author : The New Yorker
"Authors like Michael Chabon have been cru­sad­ing for awhile to break down the bar­ri­ers between so-called ‘lit­er­ary fic­tion’ and ‘genre fic­tion’. Do you have any idea why lit­er­a­ture remains so com­part­men­tal­ized? Is there any end in sight?
neilgaiman  writing  interviews  michaelchabon  confluence  comics  lowbrow  glvo  cv  literature  fiction  barriers  compartmentalization  art  culture 
january 2010 by robertogreco
DIY - Neven Mrgan's tumbl
"Regarding the tablet and Apple’s rumored future as a merchant of content, here’s something I’d like: An easy way for people who write, draw, play, and combine all of these, to publish their work to a simple, popular, digital store serving a device ideal for reading; a publishing equivalent of the App Store." [via: http://bookfuturism.com/?q=content/digital-lulucom]
apple  tablet  publishing  diy  itunes  art  comics  reading  ebooks  lulu  bookfuturism  islate  editors 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Comicbrush
"Create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings,
comics  online  onlinetoolkit  tcsnmy  tools  comicbrush  graphics  glvo 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Learning in Hand Blog by Tony Vincent
"Creating is reorganizing elements to form a new functional whole. In order to create, you have to evaluate. But in order to evaluate, you must be able to analyze. In order to analyze, you have to understand. And to understand something, you must be able to remember things about it. So, creating is the ultimate activity."
mobilelearning  iphone  pedagogy  comics  creativity  mobile  teaching  learning  ipod  handhelds  applications 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Studio Mobo Fall 2009 | Institute of Play
"Studio Mobo is designed to activate kids' curiosity about creativity, design, and mobile technology. With a focus on digital citizenship and community engagement, Studio Mobo extends Q2L's focus on tinkering, problem-solving, designing, and inventing. This trimester we'll be collaborating with an amazing group of partners to present our pod offerings: Pearson Foundation Mobile Learning Institute, Mark Ecko's Sweat Equity Enterprises, the Education Development Center, and cooking up something special we call "Super Design Wednesdays" with the art and technology center Eyebeam! Stay tuned for more information about the awesome team of teacher-mentor experts you see mentioned below!"
design  gaming  comics  make  fashion  q2l 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Book Review - 'Logicomix' - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review - NYTimes.com
"Well, this is unexpected — a comic book about the quest for logical certainty in mathematics. The story spans the decades from the late 19th century to World War II, a period when the nature of mathematical truth was being furiously debated. The stellar cast, headed up by Bertrand Russell, includes the greatest philosophers, logicians and mathematicians of the era, along with sundry wives and mistresses, plus a couple of homicidal maniacs, an apocryphal barber and Adolf Hitler. Improbable material for comic-book treatment? Not really. The principals in this intellectual drama are superheroes of a sort. They go up against a powerful nemesis, who might be called Dark Antinomy. Each is haunted by an inner demon, the Specter of Madness. Their quest has a tragic arc, not unlike that of Superman or Donald Duck."
books  toread  comics  bertrandrussell  mathematics  infinity  logic  philosophy 
october 2009 by robertogreco
The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future - Future metro - io9
"If you'll excuse the spoiler, the zenith of Hawksmoor's adventures with cities come when he finds the purpose behind the modifications - he was not altered by aliens but by future humans in order to defend the early 21st century against a time-travelling 73rd century Cleveland gone berserk. Hawksmoor defeats the giant, monstrous sentient city by wrapping himself in Tokyo to form a massive concrete battlesuit.
design  mattjones  technology  urbanplanning  architecture  urbanism  scifi  postarchitectural  psychology  cities  archigram  comics  urban  future  danhill  adamgreenfield  janejacobs  warrenellis  christopherwren  psychogeography  kevinslavin  detroit  nyc  dubai  mumbai  masdrcity  fiction  film 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Cool Tools: The United States Constitution
"This lively graphic novel adaptation of the Constitution is by far the best aid I've found to deciphering its code. It is the comic book version, but rather than dumbing it down, it smartens it up. The graphic novel goes through the Constitution article by article, and explains what each bit means, why it is there, and how it came to be. Like the Bible, the Constitution doesn't say what you thought it did. I was surprised what was not there as well as what was. I learned tons from this annotation, despite studying it in high school. It renewed my respect for it, and in a way, also makes clear its limitation. I feel I can be a slightly better citizen. Best of all, this book does all that with pictures, which makes it a page-turner."
us  constitution  law  government  books  reference  history  comics 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Henry's [Comic] Book Club: My Personal Rec List of Graphic Novels
"One of my wife's friends has recently been smitten by Scott McCloud's Zot!. As someone who read through the recent collection of Zot! in almost a single sitting (albeit in a hospital bed), I was highly sympathetic with her plight. I offered to draw up a list of recommendations for some other graphic novels she might enjoy, using Zot! as the starting point for calibrating her tastes. Having put in enough time to develop such a list, I figured it was worth passing along to my readers here. So, keep in mind that this was never intended as an all purpose set of comic recs. My bet, however, is that even many of you who have been known to pick up a comic from time to time will find some works here you didn't already know that you will find worth reading. This list consists of Anglo-American graphic novels which for one reason or another have emerged as personal favorites. Eurocomics and Manga would require whole separate listings, another project for another day."
henryjenkins  books  comics 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
"Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
aldoushuxley  georgeorwell  technology  society  culture  future  art  philosophy  government  literature  comics  entertainment  dystopia  books  history  politics  us  tcsnmy  social  media  world  neilpostman  via:kottke 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Sub Diego - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sub Diego debuts in part one of the "American Tidal" storyline from Aquaman vol. 6 #15. The citizens were transformed and stranded when part of the city of San Diego was submerged by an artificially generated earthquake, the result of a plan which changed part of the surviving population into subaquatic beings. It is the home city of Lorena Marquez, the second Aquagirl, and led by Mayor Cal Durham an old ally of Aquaman. The city was recently used as a base of operations by Arthur Curry (Aquaman)." [via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_cities_and_towns]
sandiego  subdiego  comics  fiction  cities 
august 2009 by robertogreco
…My heart’s in Accra » Fun and games with human misery
"For me, either the suspiciously accurate novel or the eminently readable comic go a long way in turning a distant – though critical – concern into a real, tangible problem. It makes me wish that more journalists and activists would look for creative ways to tell these stories and make them more real to readers."
education  learning  comics  games  gaming  simulations  science  politics  piracy  africa  ethanzuckerman  tcsnmy 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Iran's Post-Election Uprising: Hopes & Fears Revealed [Persepolis 2.0]
"Disclaimer: The authors of Persepolis 2.0 were inspired by the work of Marjane Satrapi. This does not imply, however, that the views expressed here reflect her own."
persepolis  iran  activism  graphicnovels  comics  culture  art  politics  remix  2009 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers | Teaching Degree.org
"Gone are the days of children sneaking comics past diligent parents and teachers watching out for sub-par literature. The comics of today not only have plenty to offer, they are gaining well-deserved recognition and awards. Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources will get you started."
comics  teaching  schools  education  curriculum  tips  books  digitalstorytelling  literacy  learning  reading  graphicnovels 
july 2009 by robertogreco
SIM reader & Comic book - Citizen Engineer Volume 01 - $35.00 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
"Our video Citizen Engineer volume 01 is now a comic book/zine! Volume 01 of Citizen Engineer is available as a limited edition full color 32 page comic "SIM CARD HACKING" - the comic also comes with a SIM card reader kit! We print, trim and assemble each one on demand and they look amazing! We are doing a limited run of these, get the first printing at Adafruit Industries. "
simcards  sim  hardware  electronics  make  fiy  comics  adafruit  hacking  gsm  mobile  phones  cloning 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Raph’s Website » The perfect geek age?
"Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek? ... [long list of examples here] ... Looking back on it, it makes me feel a bit sorry for those born ten years later. And I can’t judge ten years earlier, but so much of that seemed to hit at the right age. Looking back at history, it seems like the last big waves of popular invention like this were decades ago. Teens with hot rods? Engineering in the 20s? I see my kids now, and they are so clearly getting the finished products of so much, not the products in the process of invention… Am I wrong?"
1971  cv  history  childhood  transformation  videogames  dungeonsanddragons  libraries  internet  web  online  wikipedia  computers  programming  geek  via:blackbeltjones  raphkoster  mac  education  learning  culture  popculture  gamechanging  flux  google  sciencefiction  futureshock  starwars  comics 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Sugar Labs—learning software for children
"Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Children develop skills that help them in all aspects of life.
sugar  sugarlabs  olpc  os  software  learning  constructivism  comics 
march 2009 by robertogreco
An interview with "Watchmen" creator Alan Moore | Salon Books
"None of my education really comes from school. ... I found that once I'd been expelled from school, I was compelled to educate myself and I found this a very entertaining and easy process. ... All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that the remainder of their lives they will possibly never go near a book because they associate books with learning, learning with work and work with drudgery. Whereas after a hard day's toil, instead of relaxing with a book they'll be much more likely to sit down in front of an undemanding soap opera because this is obviously teaching them nothing, so it is not learning, so it is not work, it is not drudgery, so it must be pleasure. And I think that that is the kind of circuitry that we tend to have imprinted on us because of the education process."
alanmoore  watchmen  comics  reading  learning  education  deschooling  unschooling  autodidacts  self-directedlearning  consilience 
march 2009 by robertogreco
TED Blog: Get to know Tinkering School through a webcomic
"Two years ago, software engineer and tinkerer Gever Tulley told us five dangerous things you should let your kids do. He returned in 2009 to give us an update about Tinkering School, his part-lab-part-summer-camp where kids use power tools to create amazing things ... like roller coasters!
gevertulley  tinkering  learning  children  tcsnmy  comics  ted  time  freedom 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
" Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. The majority of these ideas have been established by Marvel and DC, but opinions vary from editor to editor, even within the same company. I'm often asked to bend or break these rules based on what "feels" best, or more likely, the space constraints within a panel.
comics  writing  typography  convention  graphics  style  howto  blambot 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Education - Change.org: Reading Despite Teaching (Or, "How the Hulk Led Me to Hamlet")
"my public school teachers probably had no idea that their desperate attempts to make us students engage in sincere reflection about books through book reports were so futile because we were naturally reflecting on our own cultural texts in authentic social reading groups—normally in the woods in our neighborhood. If my goal as a language arts teacher is to make good book-reporters of my kids, then I should keep assigning book reports; but if I want to make them lifelong readers who read like we adults do—we read books and discuss them with others—I’ll allow authentic book chats in class."
clayburell  books  reading  teaching  comics  literature  tcsnmy 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com
"In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch."
scottmccloud  comics  humor  ted  history  future  learning  patterns  art  computers  creativity  children  craft  careers  identity  science 
january 2009 by robertogreco
xkcd » Blog Archive » Youtube Audio Preview
"Wow. It seems someone at YouTUBE took this comic seriously and decided to add an “Audio Preview” feature. Now you can hear your comments read aloud to you." see comic: http://xkcd.com/481/
comics  youtube  xkcd  humor  behavior  commenting 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Danny the Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Danny the Street is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He was created by Grant Morrison and Brendan McCarthy and first appeared in Doom Patrol vol. 2, #35 (August 1990).
comics  streets  cities  superheroes  glvo  projectideas 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Avatar Episodes | Veoh Video Network
"With the Fire Nation on the brink of global domination, a young girl and her brother living on the South Pole make an amazing discovery: Enclosed within an iceberg for 100 years, a 12-year old Airbender has miraculously survived. Hungry for and adventure, the boy reveals himself as the Avatar."
glvo  srg  edg  avatar  comics  manga  animation  tv  television  anime 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture. « Magical Nihilism [see also: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/11/where_is_my_white_cat_and_my_e.html]
"But then in an almost throw-away aside to Adam, he reflected that the modern Bond villain (and he might have added, villains in pop culture in general) is placeless, ubiquitous, mobile. His hidden fortress is in the network, represented only by a briefcase, or perhaps even just a mobile phone. Where’s the fun in that for a production designer? Maybe it’s in the objects. It’s not the pictures that got small, but the places our villains draw they powers from." ... "So - for a “4th generation warfare” supervillain there aren’t even objects for the production designer to create and imbue with personality. The effects and the consequences can be illustrated by the storytelling, but the network and the intent can’t be foreshadowed by environments and objects in the impressionist way that Adam employed to support character and storytelling. But - what about materialising, visualising these invisible networks in order to do so?"
mattjones  design  culture  infrastructure  nomads  neo-nomads  capitalism  mobility  comics  production  villains  jamesbond  coldwar  movies  architecture  film  network  2008  cityofsound  visualization  storytelling  ubiquitous  ubicomp  mobile  supervillains  dematerialization  unproduct 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The Long Road To The Laptop: - BusinessWeek
"BusinessWeek Senior Writer Steve Hamm's new book, The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer, chronicles the four-decade history of mobile computing. This graphic adaptation explores the role of Alan Kay, whose ideas shaped the development of today’s laptops, handhelds, and smartphones." via: http://blog.ted.com/2008/11/alan_kay_the_gr.php
alankay  computers  history  computing  hardware  comics  autodidacts  learning  unschooling  olpc 
november 2008 by robertogreco
1602 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"I didnt go to kindergarten. I refused to go because it seemed too boring compared to reading books. Instead my parents made a deal with a local manhwabang (manga rental shop) so that i can have unlimited access to their books. I went everyday for one or two books to bring home so my elder sisters could read them to when they returned from school. It continued for more than a year till i had to go to school and learned to play with other kids..."
comics  reading  youngheejung  children  learning  kindergarten  unschooling 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Time Management for Anarchists -- the free comic - Boing Boing
"Time Management for Anarchists, a comic offering productivity tips for creative malcontents, has just been released as a Creative Commons licenced free download."
anarchy  productivity  management  comics  creativecommons  selfimprovement  time 
october 2008 by robertogreco
iPhone Apps - Bone Issue 1 – “Out of Boneville” | Apptism
"The award-winning comic book series “Bone” is now available on your iPhone. Follow the adventures of the three Bone cousins in Issue #1 “Out of Boneville” - Fone, Phoney and Smiley strike out from Boneville to find their destiny."
bone  jeffsmith  comics  iphone  applications  csiap 
october 2008 by robertogreco
xkcd - A Webcomic - Steal This Comic
"Thinking of buying from audible.com or iTunes? Remember, if you pirate something, it's yours for life. You can take it anywhere and it will always work. But if you buy DRM-locked media, and you ever switch operating systems or new technology comes along, your collection could be lost. And if you try to keep it, you'll be a criminal (DMCA 1201). So remember: if you want a collection you can count on, PIRATE IT. Hey, you'll be a criminal either way."
humor  piracy  dmca  drm  pirates  webcomics  xkcd  comics  law  flowchart 
october 2008 by robertogreco
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