Much of today's modern media and architecture has been inspired by artists with leanings that many people consider to be postmodernists. These artists simply defied the convention of the time just as many artists of today defy today's conventions. Here's just a little Van Gogh and Absinthe.
02/23/2008
02/19/2008
Basic Numbers
ASL (american sign language) number story
Check out this video of this gentleman telling a number story.
02/17/2008
How Politicians Are Using New Media To Communicate Messages
DVD Quality: Barack Obama Yes we can Music Video
This is not about who you are voting for this election; this post is about how political figures have utilized the power of new media such as the Internet and mobile handheld devices to communicate one message through multiple messengers with unique perspectives. This video utilizes spoken word, poetry, music, drama, news footage, song, dance, emotion, and sign language with powerful graphics and the use of black and white images and backgrounds. Ron Paul and Barack Obama have totally transformed political fundraising and campaigning via the Internet. Political fundraising has become a bottom up process now where ordinary citizens donating small amounts from $25 to $50 to $100 are now creating enough of a financial powerhouse that they are raising money that is comparable to what corporations used to raise and beyond.
In fact, the McCain, Clinton, Guiliani and Huckabee campaigns have all had fundraising problems that forced them to not pay some campaign workers temporarily or to make personal loans to their own campaigns. I suspect that their lack of knowledge concerning the power of the Internet and new media and devices doomed their fundraising efforts. While Ron Paul is not getting the votes like Obama, he is not going broke on the campaign trail and he may provide a texbook case on how to campaign online and raise funds for candidates who do not have the glamor and Hollywood appeal of a Barack Obama.
The images and the sounds through online sites and social media networks to mobile devices have totally changed the political landscape and more is yet come.
In fact, the McCain, Clinton, Guiliani and Huckabee campaigns have all had fundraising problems that forced them to not pay some campaign workers temporarily or to make personal loans to their own campaigns. I suspect that their lack of knowledge concerning the power of the Internet and new media and devices doomed their fundraising efforts. While Ron Paul is not getting the votes like Obama, he is not going broke on the campaign trail and he may provide a texbook case on how to campaign online and raise funds for candidates who do not have the glamor and Hollywood appeal of a Barack Obama.
Ron Paul: Going the Distance
The images and the sounds through online sites and social media networks to mobile devices have totally changed the political landscape and more is yet come.
What Happens When Put You Together The iPhone and YouTube? Communications Nirvana!
YouTube on the iPhone
Here is short piece on how one can use the iPhone and YouTube to communicate. This will offer many companies, universities and non-profits a unique opportunity to communicate with a device that utilizes voice, images, music, sound and touch to communicate. Apple has created a unique opportunity to truly send an integrated message to everyone including the deaf, the blind and people with disabilities through an online service and a handheld device.
Welcome To Hands On Media Ezine!
Sign Language is a visual language...
Thank you for joining me as we go on a unique voyage together. We will be looking at media and communication from the unique perspective of someone who looks at communications from a holistic perspective. Since I have an academic background in both communications and deaf studies, and work experience in the helping fields; I have developed a unique outlook that I will utilize to attempt to bridge the gaps between visual, non-verbal, audio and touch-based communications.
I will be frequently using video and pictures, like the one's above, and below, to assist me in telling this ongoing narrative. I am working on a European trip to conduct some naturalistic research to examine first-hand sign language first-hand to determine whether sign language differences or language differences impact the communications process. I will be looking at commercials, print advertisements, social media sites, television, podcasts, media devices, video games, radio, mobile media, and Internet marketing to examine how these media vehicles utilize sensory-based methodology to communicate.
iPod Shuffle commercial with Sign Language
I will even be giving my ratings on various media advertising and communications products and I will make suggestions as to how corporate America and government agencies can create innovative marketing and communications strategies to traditionally under-served groups such as women, minorities, older Americans and people with disabilities.
