Pie Charts

Hi! here's two great images from Information Esthetics.."Pie" charts! This one is from a pizza box and shows different types of data on different boxes
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/11/pie_chart_pizza_box_advertising.html


I lost the link to this one, but it can be found on the same web site. Plus it's an actually pie! Who said form doesn't follow data? -sam smiley

Shepard Fairey's VOTE!

Shepard Fairey's great print work!
(Get out and vote by the way :-)


http://thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Shepard_Fairey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

Flickr and Troy Davis

Troy Davis is awaiting the death penalty in Georgia where he was convicted of killing a police officer in Savannah Georgia in 1989. However, this was only on the basis of eye witness testimony, there was not other evidence connecting him to the crime and seven of the nine witnesses have recanted their testimony.

Here is an image from shaggyisaac on Flickr. This is one of many of the protest on behalf of Troy Davis on October 23, 2008.


Flickr (http://www.flickr.org) is an online database where people upload their photos to the web. Many times people upload current events in their area, protests, and gatherings. Uploading photos to Flickr has become a form of citizen reporting using photography.

For more information on Troy Davis here are some more links:
Amnesty International:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/troy-davis-finality-over-fairness/page.do?id=1011343

Troy Anthony Davis website
http://www.troyanthonydavis.org/

-sam smiley

Painting Poetry

Check out this great project about Youth poets in San Francisco and their collaboration with a visual artist named Evan Bissell who transcribes their poems into painting.



http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9410d222d2391934859e510748802653

The full description and gallery is at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco
http://theintersection.org/gallery/

Via Racewire via a web site called New American Media.

-sam smiley

Still Black: A portrait of Black transmen

check out the trailer for Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen

http://www.stillblackfilm.org/




Directed by Kortney Ryan Ziegler, and produced by Awilda Rodriguez Lora, the web site desribes the film as an alternative feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.

-sam smiley

The Girl Effect

I found this video via information esthetics It's off a web site called The Girl Effect..it's basically a text movie made in Flash. Stylistically it borrows heavily from Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, a Korean artist who has made many poems in this style. Although the sponsors are hard to find on the web site, Nike is one of them.

What do you think about:
the style?
the message?
the messenger?

-sam smiley

Games and Representation

Today I followed a great thread about gaming, politics and representation. So just a few links here, to start this out.
First, Girl in the Machine, a blog about race, gender, politics and gaming caught my eye. Lots of great links and articles. Hosted by a straight girl, a gay guy, and a bi girl, the blog talks very opening about gender dynamics in gaming, with the added advantage of being written by gamers (not ABOUT gamers) You can find it at http://girlinthemachine.blogspot.com/


From there I got a link to a game called ICED: I Can End Deportation. The object of the game is to escape deportation from the United States. You can download the game from here: http://www.icedgame.com/ I think the dialogue surrounding the game is as interesting as the game itself, and if you want to read more about it, you can go an article at Joystiq, a blog about gamer culture, to read the various comments.

I could go on, but I'll stop for now..and start playing.

-sam smiley