The Film Festival is coming to Wellington for the next three weeks, and there are seven films I particularly want to see. Accompanied by snippets from the festival program reviews, and trailers from youtube, they are the following:
“Imagine El Topo remade by Suzuki Seijun, and you might have something like this East-meets-West, pop art-meets-psych, guns-and-swords fusion that Miike makes weirder by having his Japanese cast speak in phonetically delivered English with subtitles! The icing on the cake? A Tarantino cameo”.
“A galvanizing portrait of autism and its profound impact on both the autistic person and their families and community, Ben X boldly melds virtual reality with live-action vérité style and docudrama to create what may be a new film grammar”. (more…)
Over the last year or so I’ve become quite interested in prototyping techniques in general - from flash and PowerPoint to even spaces like Second Life as prototyping environments - but I think paper prototyping stands out as something quite special. (more…)
Today I collaborated (virtually and in person) with three other Second Life educators to present a session on Libraries and Second Life at the TELSIG National Seminar which is being held in Palmerston North today and tomorrow.
I was incredibly nervous, and we were all crossing our fingers and toes that there wouldn’t be technology hitches - but all in all - even though there was the odd hiccup, I think it went pretty well! Everyone I spoke to afterwards had such nice things to say. (more…)
More great work from design students at Victoria, and this time it may be the single most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.
Stormtroopers visit the school of Architecture and Design, do a bit of recycling, check out some student work, and then attend a lecture. Are they on a recon mission to experience student life? They didn’t visit the library, of course, which is why the plans of the Empire always fail - you know, if they’d been reading more maybe they wouldn’t have missed that unfortunately designed exhaust port on the Death Star.
On Wednesday afternoon (along with staff and research students from Science, Engineering, and Architecture and Design) Elizabeth and I visited the Digital Media Design Lab to hear a selection of presenters showcasing their use of e-research technologies and demonstrating a number of cool projects they’d been involved with. (more…)
Work from Victoria’s first year design students is now starting to appear on Vimeo.com (that’s the pretty youtube). It just blows me away that this is the work of students who just started at uni in February this year. They’re already creating work to the standard of professional advertising. Check more videos out on Vimeo!
