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lafilleblanc: Mark Rothko Chapel (architects: Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry, 1971) In 1964 Mark Rothko was commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil (who are also founders of the nearby Menil Collection that is housed in the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Museum and Cy Twombly Gallery) to create a meditative space filled with his site-specific paintings.…
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superheroesincolor: Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime ( 2015) By Deborah Elizabeth Whaley “Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” – the first Black female superheroine in a comic book…
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Right now, VR video lacks a coherent visual language, and that’s a big problem. By that, I don’t mean a spoken language like English, or even a programming language like HTML. I mean a vocabulary of cuts, camera angles, editing techniques, and the like that tell a story visually Virtual reality will be stuck in…
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Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills
Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills gjmueller: A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at least one nonacademic measure in judging school performance. So other states are watching these districts as a potential model. But the race to test for so-called social-emotional skills has…
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micdotcom: black-ish made television history last night Last night, black-ish brought us into the middle of the tough conversations black families have been forced to have more and more recently. It did so with the utmost thought and humor, all the while giving nuanced, important depth to the issues of police brutality — including the characterization of…