For your final projects, devise a digital humanities project that analyzes, curates, archives, or presents a local event, object, collection, or phenomenon that could be the subject of the study of humanities. These can be traditional subjects or digital natives, but your project must, in some way, satisfy the definition of digital humanities we have been exploring this semester.
This project does not have to be undertaken, simply designed and explained. On your blog, explain how your project fits into the digital humanities, why it is worthwhile, and how such a project would be performed. Include in your descriptions specific tools needed and provide links to similar projects, similar tools, and the subjects in question. These descriptions should be comprehensive--between five and seven paragraphs, and featuring at least three links to help illustrate your ideas.
This project is due May 20, 2016 at a reasonable time of day (please don't make me stay up until the wee hours!).
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Final Digital Stories
For your final digital story, due May 6, you will tell the story of your encounter with digital humanities this semester. It should focus on your experiences with the course and key concepts encountered this semester, but the story is otherwise open to your interpretation. Clearly, this need be a digital story, much like the one you made earlier in the semester, but whether you wish to use metaphor or symbols to tell your story, or be quite literal, is up to you (although I am secretly rooting for at least a little of the former).
You will be evaluated on how well you incorporate key concepts from the course into the story. The concepts you choose to include should probably be those that have had an impact on you, or connect with some of your larger interests. Feel free to tie this into your final project, if you wish.
You will be evaluated on how well you incorporate key concepts from the course into the story. The concepts you choose to include should probably be those that have had an impact on you, or connect with some of your larger interests. Feel free to tie this into your final project, if you wish.
Friday, March 25, 2016
The Art Curation Project
Your art curation project will involve three elements: a platform like Artsteps, (you don't have to use this exact platform, of course, but it should do the trick) at least ten images of Matisse's work from the Cone Collection (found on our shared drive) and Gertrude Stein's "Matisse" from Three Portraits of Painters. Using Stein's piece as a guide, curate a virtual space using at least ten pieces of Matisse's work. I expect each displayed piece to include a quote from "Matisse" to help guide the viewer, plus any other material you deem necessary. You should not explain the curation in the gallery--instead, post a companion piece in your blog explaining your choices.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Quick Digital Story
For your quick digital story, write a story and use images and narration to tell that story. The purpose of the assignment is to familiarize yourself with some editing tools, and become comfortable with Youtube. Eventually, you will post a digital story about your digital humanities experience, but this first one can really cover any topic as long as it tells a story with images and narration.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
GIS Project for ENG 208
This assignment requires you use your ArcGIS account that is connected to our ENG 208 group. First, each of you is responsible for a section of the campus:
Michael--Havre de Grace, Maryland, Fallston, Joppa
Richaun--Bel Air, Student Center, Susquehanna, Belcamp
Melissa--Aberdeen, Edgewood, Chesapeake, Darlington
For each building, you will be responsible for mapping five to ten points on the "ENG208 GIS Architecture" layer. You should all be able to contribute to the same map.
Each point should contain a photograph of an architectural feature of the building, (at least two of the required points must feature architectural features from inside the building) the name of the building, and, in the description, a quotation from one of the assigned readings and an explanation of how this quotation relates to the photograph.
By Friday, March 11, you need to write a blog post outlining some of your plans for the project. Ideally, this post will contain a few photographs and some quotations you are planning to map. The final GIS project is due Friday, March 25.
Michael--Havre de Grace, Maryland, Fallston, Joppa
Richaun--Bel Air, Student Center, Susquehanna, Belcamp
Melissa--Aberdeen, Edgewood, Chesapeake, Darlington
For each building, you will be responsible for mapping five to ten points on the "ENG208 GIS Architecture" layer. You should all be able to contribute to the same map.
Each point should contain a photograph of an architectural feature of the building, (at least two of the required points must feature architectural features from inside the building) the name of the building, and, in the description, a quotation from one of the assigned readings and an explanation of how this quotation relates to the photograph.
By Friday, March 11, you need to write a blog post outlining some of your plans for the project. Ideally, this post will contain a few photographs and some quotations you are planning to map. The final GIS project is due Friday, March 25.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Some Rubricy Details for the Text Mining/Data Visualization Assignment
The core of this assignment is that you engage in text mining or data visualization tools, such as those at Voyant Tools that we used in the Frank Norris project.
First, you are to strip down the text files for your assigned range of issues of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. These files should be uploaded to our class Google Drive (DH) so all students can access the entire corpus. Then, based on your reading, (at least one issue of the magazine's run) you will design a text mining or data visualization project using this corpus. This project can take many forms, but should be justified based on your reading. I suggest building word lists based on themes you discover through reading or based on the time period you are exploring.
How you use the tools is up to you. While I do want to see a project that attempts to explore several key ideas, (don't just generate a single word cloud and be done) these ideas could cut across several smaller explorations, or encompass a single, larger one. Remember that projects are not definitive. You are also not meant to be masters of the technology or the material--there will be questions raised, and results that do not fit in with your expectations. Be prepared to fail, but keep in mind that failures are part of humanities, especially the digital humanities. Fail well.
You are to blog about this project and should include the following:
-Description of your process and the thinking that led to its development.
-Description of your results and your interpretation. How much more information might you need? How could this process or project be improved moving forward? What did you learn about the literature and the process?
-Description of challenges you faced, and how that may change what you try if you had a future project. What might other students behind you need to know to build on your work?
-What is the value of such examinations? What can we learn about literature? Are there limitations that simply cannot be overcome?
I would love to see some examples included in your blog--sample data or visualizations.
First, you are to strip down the text files for your assigned range of issues of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. These files should be uploaded to our class Google Drive (DH) so all students can access the entire corpus. Then, based on your reading, (at least one issue of the magazine's run) you will design a text mining or data visualization project using this corpus. This project can take many forms, but should be justified based on your reading. I suggest building word lists based on themes you discover through reading or based on the time period you are exploring.
How you use the tools is up to you. While I do want to see a project that attempts to explore several key ideas, (don't just generate a single word cloud and be done) these ideas could cut across several smaller explorations, or encompass a single, larger one. Remember that projects are not definitive. You are also not meant to be masters of the technology or the material--there will be questions raised, and results that do not fit in with your expectations. Be prepared to fail, but keep in mind that failures are part of humanities, especially the digital humanities. Fail well.
You are to blog about this project and should include the following:
-Description of your process and the thinking that led to its development.
-Description of your results and your interpretation. How much more information might you need? How could this process or project be improved moving forward? What did you learn about the literature and the process?
-Description of challenges you faced, and how that may change what you try if you had a future project. What might other students behind you need to know to build on your work?
-What is the value of such examinations? What can we learn about literature? Are there limitations that simply cannot be overcome?
I would love to see some examples included in your blog--sample data or visualizations.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Greed
Anyone know where I can get a copy of Erich von Stroheim's Greed from 1924 in English? I downloaded a version with Italian title cards from archive.org, but it'd be nice to get a copy in English. Oh yeah, and money is a bit of an object. I won't be able to pay a king's ransom for an old VHS transfer or a third generation copy of reel nine (but what a great thing to have!).
Why is this not available on DVD? MGM, get your act together!
While I'm on the topic, I'd love, looooove a copy in just about any format of Veit Harland's Der Herrscher. I know it's only available in German and without subtitles, but I'll take it...
Why is this not available on DVD? MGM, get your act together!
While I'm on the topic, I'd love, looooove a copy in just about any format of Veit Harland's Der Herrscher. I know it's only available in German and without subtitles, but I'll take it...
Monday, May 12, 2008
The Radiohead debacle--emblematic of a new paradigm
For much of the day--between work and having to drive around in more rain!--I've been tooling around the net, looking for further info on the Radiohead show I missed two posts ago. People are sad, disappointed, angry and just plain tired. There's an online petition (please consider signing) up and people on RH message boards are all over this.
So let's add some perspective, and I don't do this to minimize what anyone went through last night: this was a pop concert, and while we spent a good deal of money, for most people, I hope, this was discretionary income. In other places in the world, as we speak, people are suffering far worse than the eight hours I had to sit in my car and expel greenhouse gases. Should we be upset? Of course. Nissan Pavilion and LiveNation didn't deliver to a huge number of people and that counts for something, but, unless we made the local news in DC, I can't imagine much press for this event. Let's face it, RH is a popular band, but they ain't the Stones (thank god)...
Here's the really neat thing though--when I was suffering after the Bull Run "concert" in '01, it was a very solitary experience. I was the only Radiohead I knew and had gone there by myself. As a result, I had this crazy story to tell people, but it was basically my story. Today I discover that not only, of course, were there a ton of people with a similar story, but many of them also shared the gut-wrenching time I had last night. Many of the comments I have seen have been supportive and encouraging. If nothing else, the internet has been a place for information about the show (missed Paranoid Android, Karma Police, Planet Telex and Optimistic? I expected the new album, which is great, but damn...) as well as a way for some of us to hear other stories and band together. Still, this is one of the first times the internet has actually made me feel better. There's a lot of commiseration and sympathy out there and, perhaps, it's merely because many of us share this common interest (no flaming, please), but it does represent some of what's best about the internet.
I started this blog as a homework assignment, but today several people I've never met commented on the RH post to offer help, commiseration and support--that's pretty amazing.
So let's add some perspective, and I don't do this to minimize what anyone went through last night: this was a pop concert, and while we spent a good deal of money, for most people, I hope, this was discretionary income. In other places in the world, as we speak, people are suffering far worse than the eight hours I had to sit in my car and expel greenhouse gases. Should we be upset? Of course. Nissan Pavilion and LiveNation didn't deliver to a huge number of people and that counts for something, but, unless we made the local news in DC, I can't imagine much press for this event. Let's face it, RH is a popular band, but they ain't the Stones (thank god)...
Here's the really neat thing though--when I was suffering after the Bull Run "concert" in '01, it was a very solitary experience. I was the only Radiohead I knew and had gone there by myself. As a result, I had this crazy story to tell people, but it was basically my story. Today I discover that not only, of course, were there a ton of people with a similar story, but many of them also shared the gut-wrenching time I had last night. Many of the comments I have seen have been supportive and encouraging. If nothing else, the internet has been a place for information about the show (missed Paranoid Android, Karma Police, Planet Telex and Optimistic? I expected the new album, which is great, but damn...) as well as a way for some of us to hear other stories and band together. Still, this is one of the first times the internet has actually made me feel better. There's a lot of commiseration and sympathy out there and, perhaps, it's merely because many of us share this common interest (no flaming, please), but it does represent some of what's best about the internet.
I started this blog as a homework assignment, but today several people I've never met commented on the RH post to offer help, commiseration and support--that's pretty amazing.
Something for the Radioheads (and Silvia)
It doesn't make up for those of us who missed last night's show--but it's a pleasant find nonetheless.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Rain is good, but not for Radiohead
So how was the show?
Back in '01, I went to see Radiohead at this place in VA called Bull Run. It was hot and I got there early, parked, went in and sat in the sun, waiting for Thievery Corporation and the the Beta Band to open up. It rained instead.
At first, the rain was a welcome respite from the heat, but it just poured. After a time, we were instructed to wait in our cars and told we would be readmitted. I sat for over an hour, drenched, in my car's passenger seat, watching teenagers slide in the mud, until we were told the show was canceled. I received a full refund.
So when my wife surprised me with a pair of Radiohead tickets I was a bit apprehensive. They were playing at a different venue, the Nissan Pavilion, but it was supposed to rain. It did.
My friend and I left Baltimore at 5:30--perhaps naive for a 7:30 show, but I had no idea how long it might actually take--I know 495 is a nightmare, but the rain didn't start until we left and it was Mother's Day. I had to visit my mother, of course, and it seemed unreasonable to tell her I couldn't visit because I needed to go to a 7:30 show that was 90 minutes away. Besides, shows start late, and there's an opening act, the Liars, that if we missed--oh, well... (sorry Liars, you seem like a fine band).
Suffice to say, we drove in an increasingly complex system of police mandated detours with hundreds (thousands?) of others, in the rain, with no clear idea of how close we were or even how to get back to the interstate. This went on for hours. My feelings were: the show will be canceled (all these people unable to get in!) or delayed (again, all these people). By 10:30 we unrolled our window and asked a cop, who had just blocked yet another road, "No show?" "No show," he answered.
This was some relief. I have been driving for five straight hours in the rain. We looped around and into a gas station for a bathroom break and a snack before turning around to head home (we went the wrong way for about a quarter of an hour--I had never been there before remember). I got home at 1:30 am. I could have gotten into South Carolina if I had driven straight south--Boston, if I had gone in the other direction. We joked that we could have driven to NYC for a slice of pizza and back, and still had time to spare.
The show, I find upon waking, was not canceled. It went on as scheduled. I'm not angry about that--fans made it in, why shouldn't they play? But will we receive refunds of some kind (I didn't even get to see the parking lot!)? Why, if Radiohead wants to be green (which I applaud) do they recommend fans use public transportation to a venue that, to my knowledge, has none? RFK is off of the Metro. How in the hell does anyone go to see anything at the Nissan Pavilion? That was a lot of rain (flooding, apparently) but it wasn't a hurricane. If shows are going to go on rain or shine, shouldn't there be contingency plans for traffic and, perhaps, some drainage or road improvements?
Incredibly, I am 0-2 with Radiohead concerts.
Back in '01, I went to see Radiohead at this place in VA called Bull Run. It was hot and I got there early, parked, went in and sat in the sun, waiting for Thievery Corporation and the the Beta Band to open up. It rained instead.
At first, the rain was a welcome respite from the heat, but it just poured. After a time, we were instructed to wait in our cars and told we would be readmitted. I sat for over an hour, drenched, in my car's passenger seat, watching teenagers slide in the mud, until we were told the show was canceled. I received a full refund.
So when my wife surprised me with a pair of Radiohead tickets I was a bit apprehensive. They were playing at a different venue, the Nissan Pavilion, but it was supposed to rain. It did.
My friend and I left Baltimore at 5:30--perhaps naive for a 7:30 show, but I had no idea how long it might actually take--I know 495 is a nightmare, but the rain didn't start until we left and it was Mother's Day. I had to visit my mother, of course, and it seemed unreasonable to tell her I couldn't visit because I needed to go to a 7:30 show that was 90 minutes away. Besides, shows start late, and there's an opening act, the Liars, that if we missed--oh, well... (sorry Liars, you seem like a fine band).
Suffice to say, we drove in an increasingly complex system of police mandated detours with hundreds (thousands?) of others, in the rain, with no clear idea of how close we were or even how to get back to the interstate. This went on for hours. My feelings were: the show will be canceled (all these people unable to get in!) or delayed (again, all these people). By 10:30 we unrolled our window and asked a cop, who had just blocked yet another road, "No show?" "No show," he answered.
This was some relief. I have been driving for five straight hours in the rain. We looped around and into a gas station for a bathroom break and a snack before turning around to head home (we went the wrong way for about a quarter of an hour--I had never been there before remember). I got home at 1:30 am. I could have gotten into South Carolina if I had driven straight south--Boston, if I had gone in the other direction. We joked that we could have driven to NYC for a slice of pizza and back, and still had time to spare.
The show, I find upon waking, was not canceled. It went on as scheduled. I'm not angry about that--fans made it in, why shouldn't they play? But will we receive refunds of some kind (I didn't even get to see the parking lot!)? Why, if Radiohead wants to be green (which I applaud) do they recommend fans use public transportation to a venue that, to my knowledge, has none? RFK is off of the Metro. How in the hell does anyone go to see anything at the Nissan Pavilion? That was a lot of rain (flooding, apparently) but it wasn't a hurricane. If shows are going to go on rain or shine, shouldn't there be contingency plans for traffic and, perhaps, some drainage or road improvements?
Incredibly, I am 0-2 with Radiohead concerts.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
My apologies
for that last post. It's late, and I'm desperately trying to build something, anything that's interesting and not hopelessly cheesy. Somehow, in real life, I manage to walk the charming and ironic dweeb line quite well, but this business with a script and an agenda and things to say... I feel like a great writer while I'm doing this video stuff because I have zero talent for this and, as I'm working on my Experimental Forms final as well, it seems a lot easier. At least if the writing sucks, I don't have to stand in front of the class and present it!
In other news, I'm watching a VH1 special with Radiohead--"From the Basement" or something. My wife just surprised me with tickets to see them at the Nissan Pavilion. Perhaps I can do my best Thom Yorke in split screen? Sigh.
Love my wife. I do.
In other news, I'm watching a VH1 special with Radiohead--"From the Basement" or something. My wife just surprised me with tickets to see them at the Nissan Pavilion. Perhaps I can do my best Thom Yorke in split screen? Sigh.
Love my wife. I do.
More nightmarish embarrassment!
It just wouldn't be the internet without stuff like me...
Please tell me it's all in good fun...
Please tell me it's all in good fun...
Saturday, May 3, 2008
I did it!!!
This project is a total nightmare (FYI, I can't act and have no charisma in front of the camera). BUT, I think I've solved some of my technical issues (ie. the split screen).
O Frabjus day, Calloo, Callay!
O Frabjus day, Calloo, Callay!
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