Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

More than you thought to understanding comics

After watching an amazing Adobe presentation from Dan Bliton on using manga as a training medium, I checked out Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. It's making me look at things in a new way. In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud talks about how we iconify objects and ideas, and the process of conceptualization (learning) reminded me of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (interview) and Ways of Seeing by John Berger (excerpt).

Additionally, McCloud has some great thoughts on how a reader or audience identifies with characters in a book or movie, so distilling the character down to essential elements of humanity in comics and cartoons is more successful in getting the reader or audience to identify with those characters.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Dalai Lama road trip

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is on a road trip and coming to Seattle in April. The five-day Seattle event takes places in multiple locations, including Key Arena and Qwest Field. Check out seedsofcompassion.com for more info and free tickets!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Music for Maniacs

I just stumbled across a great music blog. Music for Maniacs reviews all sorts of off-the-wall stuff and usually includes links to mp3s, so you actually get to listen as well.

There is a fascinating entry on LemurBots, which actually create and play music instead of just playing pre-programmed music.