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Scalar, Part 2_ & for colored girls

by Kim Hall 0 Comments

Cast of 2019 production of for colored girls . . .at The Public

Hello all,  Taylor showed us some wonderful ways to use Scalar, both in itself and along with other digital tools.  Those who attended probably realized that you forget how to use tools if you don’t use the regularly! In that spirit, I encourage/invite those of you with blogposts left to do at least one of them on Scalar, try tagging and using the widgets.  Although I realize that these will be experimental, if you are trying to be particularly bodacious, please feel free to put “this is an experiment” at the top.

One useful tip from Taylor: Think about combining analogue and digital content– perhaps use your own drawings, paintings or collages with annotations and other media.

Taylor shared her outline and the links from the session with us. You can find it here.  I put at the bottom of that outline a spreadsheet for you to let us know what you are thinking about doing for your final project and a way to contact each other so that you might  go to the DHC together or figure out problems.  If you have problem accessing the spreadsheet, you can do it here.

Week 9: Our well-told story & unexpected metadata

by Kim Hall 0 Comments

Original sketch for the Wedding Dress from the collection sketchbook; Fall-Winter 1988;  Pulled from the internet. Photo Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

I hope everyone had a restorative spring break! This week at ICP we will work collaboratively and individually: first, we’ll work with Sarah so that she can get started on the website and then you will be work more on your individual projects in concert with Bradly. Our class schedule:

  • Discussion of Kiani & Dania’s blogposts (30-ish mins)
  • Sarah Greene directs discussion of look/feel of website (60 mins?)
  • Scanning, editing of project materials.(remaining time).

 

 

To prepare:

READ Kiani and Dania’s blogposts; notes from last website discussion

SKIM (if time) the Well-Told story posts of your peers

SIGN-UP for your Harlem Semester tour

The Well Told Story – SNOW FALL

by Yemi 1 Comment

For this assignment I found a website sponsored by the New York Times to be quite fascinating: Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by John Branch.

When you first hit enter on the web link you are taken to a landing page that shows the title of the work over-layed on a looping video of snow. The effect is immediate and brings excitement for what’s to come next.

Landing Page of Snowfall

Landing Page of Snowfall

The Well Told Story: Digital Schomburg

by Clarke 1 Comment

The Digital Schomburg has a number of digital exhibits that provide excellent models for our own digital storytelling. I want to highlight two exhibits hosted on the same page, titled, “Black Power! The Movement, The Legacy” and “Ready for the Revolution: Education, Arts, and Aesthetics of the Black Power Movement.” The exhibits are presented as pre-organized/ordered set of images and associated text. Users can also examine photographs/archival materials outside of the curated exhibits in the “Items” section. This is a simple, user-friendly storytelling model that is still comprehensive and intriguing.

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The Well Told Story – Slavery in New York

by Nicole 1 Comment

In 2005, The New-York Historical Society created an exhibit called Slavery in New York. The exhibit existed on site at the museum for a period of time, but an online version of the exhibit was also created to last permanently on their website.

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The online exhibit was created based off of a physical exhibit at therefore its elements seem to be a re-imagination of what the physical exhibit looked like. I am sure this affected the feel of the exhibit because it was not originally created for an online platform. Our projects differ because our platform is solely digital and has framed how we think about the telling of our individual stories.