Category Archives: Theory

What is Street Photography?

Image by Martin Parr What is street photography? A reflection of every day life – real, unaltered impressions of public places, places that everybody visits every day, the street where you live, the parking lot of your favorite grocery store, the subway. Street photographers document the truth – take candid pictures of things that you don’t notice in [...]

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Changing Education Paradigms: Sir Ken Robinson

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.

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Film Sound: Acousmatic

Acousmatic sound is sound one hears without seeing their originating cause – a invisible sound source. Radio, phonograph and telephone, all which transmit sounds without showing their emitter are acousmatic media Offscreen sound in film is sound that is acousmatic, relative to what is shown in the shot. In a film an acousmatic situation can [...]

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How our Individual Concepts of Time Influence us: Philip Zimbardo

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives. Below is a short animation about how our individual concepts of time influence [...]

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Youth Media International: Looking Deep Into the Digital Divide

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globeYouth. By Orlando Campbell Youth Radio’s New Options desk has been looking at the barriers to employment for out-of-school young adults, and we heard a statistic, cited casually, that the digital divide had remained widest for one population – people without high [...]

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