Ten Corporations That Control Almost Everything You Buy

http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

Excerpt:

Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to pet food to jeans. 

According to this chart via Reddit, called "The Illusion of Choice," these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You've heard of the biggest names, but it's amazing to see what these giants own or influence.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

Paper Prototype

Write about making a paper prototype.

 I drew a park, with trees and houses and a road. 

The road will lead from a house to the school, and it will go past other places like a grocery store, a fast food establishment, and a bus stop.

The user will find hidden objects in the park and when they click on them they will learn about safe driving.

 What problems did it help you to solve with your game idea?

When I was drawing my scene it looked kind of empty so I added some trees and mountains in the background. I also decided to add airplanes and clouds in the sky and I will make those move.

Skateboarding School in Afghanistan

Excerpt:

Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female.

In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s a ground-breaking statistic.

Officially, this makes Afghanistan the unlikeliest of title holders for the highest rate of female participation in skateboarding out of any country in the world.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/27/in-the-midst-of-a-warzone-there-is-an-afghani-skateboarding-school-for-girls/

Join the Community

1. What does it mean to have a "single story" about a place or community?

A single story is a single point of view. A community is made of many people. They all have a unique point of view. One person's view does not tell the whole story for, or about a community. If you hear a single story about a large group of people you should know that it is not the complete story. 

The media often speaks about a whole community of people and tells the same story over and over again. That is a single story. If all you hear about a certain group of people is that they are negative, then everyone will begin to believe it, including the people that the story is about.

2. Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?

A single story I've heard about my community is that kids at EACP are not well behaved. What is missing from that story is that most of the kids are in fact well behaved. I would say about five percent are not well behaved. If people wanted to learn more about EACP community they could spend the day in one of our classrooms to see what it is like. They will see lots of smart kids who are very eager to learn and do well in life.

3. Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?

A story I heard about another community is I heard that people in Paris are unfriendly and rude. I learned that story from the media. I could find out more about Paris by visiting Paris.

4. How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?

A game could have multiple levels with different stories on each level. Or perhaps there are characters in the game which each tell their point of view when they are clicked on or interacted with.

Design Class: Redesign This Poster

Your assignment is to take all of the information on this poster and come up with your own re-design. Use all of the band names and pay attention to how they are being grouped by color. Those are the colors of the different stages. The color serves to direct folks to the right place. If you want to change that system what would you come up with?

You Can Vote For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees 2014

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going to announce the inductees in the next couple of weeks! Who would you vote for? Take the poll and vote. This is your chance to have your voice heard! Just kidding. They decide on who they want without you. But still, it'd be fun to vote and see instant results.

http://rockhall.com/inductees/

Where To Get Help

How might your classmates or friends help you with your projects?

How will you help your classmates with their projects?

How can you help? You can share concepts, drawings, and code for your games. You can discuss social issues with other students. Students can communicate on the wiki message board, their blogs, on email, or in person in the classroom about their games, social issues, and give each other advice about where to find answers on the wiki. Students can offer constructive criticism to help each other make their games better. Students could test play each others' games.

Create Your Blog

Who are you? 
I am Mr. Streckfus, the teacher of Globaloria and I am from San Antonio, TX. I studied graphic design at School of Visual Arts in New York from 2000 - 2005. I worked in the graphic design field professionally since 2000 and have done lots of work for Dell and JCPenny. I love to play music, draw, swim and ride bikes. What else can I tell you about myself? I come from a large family with three brothers and three sisters. My father was a teacher and so is my oldest brother. I'm married and I have two cats, Pinky and Roxy!

How will you use your blog to help others understand you work with Globaloria?
On my blog I will post my work and discuss it with students so they can understand why I made the decisions I made. Design is all about making wise choices and thinking through all of your options.

Smarter animation bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds.

http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/inventor/hao-li/

Hao Li remembers watching Jurassic Park as a kid: “That moment of seeing something that didn’t exist in reality, but it looked so real—that was definitely the one that made me think about doing this,” he says. Li tells me the story one afternoon while we dine at the cafeteria of Industrial Light & Magic, the famed San Francisco visual-effects studio where he has been working on a way to digitally capture actors’ facial expressions for the upcoming Star Warsmovies. 

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE

Minecraft Reviewed on MIT Tech

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/516051/the-secret-to-a-video-game-phenomenon/

This is a long article that will take 2 days to read in class.

Minecraft places its players in the game’s world with few directives. There are almost no goals or commandments to guide or moderate behavior, apart from those of the players’ own making. So what accounts for the game’s success? Its intelligent design reveals a watchmaker’s precision, while the elemental freedom it offers its inhabitants taps into some primal, irresistible human urges

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE

Health: HOW THE BRAIN REACTS TO THE TASTE OF FAT

http://www.futurity.org/how-the-brain-reacts-to-the-taste-of-fat/

The research, reported in the journal Chemosensory Perception, could offer the food industry clues for how to make less fatty food products without negatively affecting their overall taste and enjoyment.

The three-year study carried out by the University of Nottingham and the multinational food company Unilever investigated how the brains of a group of participants in their 20s would respond to changes in the fat content of four different fruit emulsions they tasted while under an MRI scanner.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE

TECH: TINY FLYING MACHINES TAKE A LESSON FROM HONEYBEES

http://www.futurity.org/flying-lessons-may-lead-robotbee-swarm/

To develop insect-sized robot aircraft, researchers are harnessing secrets of how honeybees fly.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

Glass Two Atoms Thick Shatters World Record

http://www.futurity.org/glass-just-two-atoms-thick-shatters-world-record/

Scientists at Cornell and Germany’s University of Ulm had been making graphene, a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms in a chicken wire crystal formation, on copper foils in a quartz furnace. They noticed some “muck” on the graphene, and upon further inspection, found it to be composed of the elements of everyday glass, silicon and oxygen.

They concluded that an air leak had caused the copper to react with the quartz, also made of silicon and oxygen. This produced the glass layer on the would-be pure graphene.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

Nature: Insect leg cogs a first in animal kingdom

http://www.nature.com/news/insect-leg-cogs-a-first-in-animal-kingdom-1.13723

Toothed gears enable young plant hoppers to synchronize limbs for jumping.

• Philip Ball

12 September 2013

If you are a young plant hopper, leaping one metre in a single bound, you need to push off with both hind legs in perfect unison or you might end up in a spin. Researchers have discovered that this synchrony is made possible by toothed gears that connect the two legs when the insects jump.

Zoologists Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton at the University of Cambridge, UK, say that this seems to be the first example in nature of rotary motion with toothed gears. They describe their findings today in Science¹.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

History of Computers

Interactive History of Computers.
This goes up until 2003.

http://www.scsite.com/dc2003/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&module=time&multimedia=1

Key Commands

Do you know your key commands?

Popular Important Helpful Keystrokes & Shortcuts:

1.                Save= ctrl & S

2.                Print= ctrl & P

3.                Open= Ctrl & O

4.                Copy = ctrl & C

5.                Paste = ctrl & V

6.                Spellchecker= F7

7.                Thesaurus= Shift & F7

8.                Select All = Ctrl & A

9.                Cut = ctrl & X

10.          Undo Typing = Ctrl l & Z

11.          Bold = Ctrl & B

12.          Underline = Ctrl & U

13.          Italics = Ctrl&I

14.          Insert Hyperlink Ctrl & K

15.          Double space = Ctrl & 2

16.          Single space = Ctrl & 1

17.          Line Break (Force Single Space instead of double)= [Shift & Enter]

18.          Refresh Program or Internet Browser = F5

19.          New Page= Ctrl & N

20.          Redo Typing = Ctrl & Y

21.          Exit Program = Alt & F4    

22.          Help = F1

23.          double click selects a word

24.          triple click selects a paragraph

25.          Browser View = Shift & Ctrl & B

26.          View Slide Show F5

27.          Find = Ctrl & F

28.          Duplicate Slide = Ctrl & D

29.          New Slide = Ctrl & M

30.           Internet Back a Page Alt & Arrow Key to move back

CNN Student News Link

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

(CNN Student News) -- What is CNN Student News?

CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program designed for middle and high school classes. It is produced by the journalists and educators at CNN. This award-winning show and its companion website are available free of charge throughout the school year.

StopCyberBullying.org

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/tweens/index.html

Here's a good informational site about cyberbullying.

Comment Sections Are Wastelands Ruled by Trolls. Here Are Alternatives

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/gl_honan-conversation/

Have you ever been reading the comments under an online article and realized that MOST of the comments are from trolls or spambots? CEOs are coming up with new ways to deal with the comments sections of their online articles to elevate the conversations into real meaningful conversations instead of dumping grounds for trolls.

Read the article at wired.com and answer the questions in the handout.

Project Loon. Google's Answer to 21st Century Internet Problems

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/googlex-project-loon/

Project Loon, a breathtakingly ambitious plan to bring the Internet to a huge swath of as-yet-unconnected humanity—via thousands of solar-powered, high-pressure balloons floating some 60,000 feet above Earth.

Read the Article.
Answer Questions on handout.

Everyone Dies! Game

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/everyone-dies

Everyone Dies! is an awesome game that you will not be able to stop playing.
It was created in FLASH and does a really good job of setting up the game with a weird short story.

Write in your blogs about WHY you think it is either a good game or bad game. Be constructive. Tell the author of the game HOW you would make it better and WHY.

Spot the Designer Flash Game

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/designer

This FLASH game is kind of addictive.

Constructive criticism is an evaluation of performance, good and bad, with an eye to improvement rather than simple critique. It is designed to be helpful to the person being evaluated.

After playing the game a bit, write in your blogs about WHY you think their game is good or bad, and HOW you would improve it or change it to make it better. Help them, don't just compliment them.

Flash Pulp Flash Movie

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pulp

Pretty cool Flash movie. The music is electronic.

Main Entry:	constructive criticism
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	criticism or advice that is useful and intended to help or improve something, often withan offer of possible solutions After watching the video, in your blogs write a short paragraph(3 to six sentences) explaining how you think their game could be better. What would you change? What would you leave because it is successful?

The Wizard of Odds (3:33)

The Wizard of Odds
2009 Thesis Film - SVA Computer Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhJBafT1yQA
By cbdevil

The Joke - 2007 SVA Thesis Film (5:15)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpKD7qwLPEg

The Joke by asiabrew81

Alien Abduction- SVA Computer Art (2:08)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5-hdejtSQ

Created by School of Visual Arts student David Han through the SVA Computer Art Department, 2008.

Art Is... SVA Computer Art (1:57)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Db5Q0OBro

Emilie Liu Reel 2013 (1:16)

[Turn the sound off.]

By Emilie Liu

http://vimeo.com/63876430

Designer Illustrator Animator
Work for Hire

Emilie.hpliu@gmail.com

Marcel (2:56)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qZwsbdEpg

"Marcel" - Thesis Film By "Eric Cunha & Seung Sung" {School of Visual Arts

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Hap-Pea - A Pea-ceful Aniboom Animation (1:57)

Hap-Pea - A Pea-ceful Aniboom Animation by Shota Imai and Nana Hatori

'Hap-pea' is a short 3D animated film about magical peas that are grown in the sky by Cloud People. These Cloud People include farmers, assembly line workers, chefs, graffiti artists, a DJ, a train conductor, musicians, and even pirates who shoot colorful peas out of canons into the sky! These peas transform a colorless and boring city into a colorful and happy place. It just goes to show us - a little color goes a long way!

Notes from the Animator:

This is my thesis at SVA (School of Visual Arts). Created by Shota Imai and Nana Hatori.

Made with Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Logic Pro on Mac OSX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMVpr-1nFYU

Foot Fetiche (2:14)

http://vimeo.com/12851746

Foot Fetiche
By Nuno Nobre

"Short animated movie that I started at the School of Visual Arts, NY, and Finished back in Portugal. It´s the story of two neighbours and the tension between their feelings. It´s up to their "feet" to turn things around and make them fall in Love.

Photoshop, Flash and After effects were the tools I used for this project."

Destiny Is For The Birds (5:41)

http://vimeo.com/48888474

By Michael J Ruocco

2011 thesis film from the School of Visual Arts. Won the "Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Animation" award at the 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival, tied with Zach Bellissimo's Blenderstein! (vimeo.com/26253095)

Oscillate (4:26)

http://vimeo.com/65475425

Music and Animation By Daniel Sierra

thesis animation done at School of Visual Arts, class of 2013, Computer Art MFA.

Software used: Houdini (animation), Reason (music), Nuke (comp), After Effects (final render), Processing (pre-viz)

Girl Vs. Monster Flash Animation (:56)

http://youtu.be/NOvwvb0UmGg

No Sound

From Photoshop To Flash (8:42)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIcMOHiFhw

Watch the creation of King Klunk. From Photoshop concept, to being Flashed, to being animated! 

Flash Animation (1:56)

http://vimeo.com/8523789

Road Rage (1:35)

http://vimeo.com/34460118

Animated in After Effects.

Psychic Land (1:54)

http://vimeo.com/39659731

Directed by: 
Pablo Gostanian
Art Direction & Design:
Pablo Gostanian
Animation Directors: Martin Salfity & Pablo Gostanian
3d Animation: Martin Salfity, Sebastian Garcia & Juan Pablo Siaccaluga
Monster Modeling & Animation: Sebastian Garcia
Postproduction: Pablo Gostanian
Additional Animation: Jorge Herrero
Music and sound fx: Hula-Music.com

Center For Native American Youth Fast Facts For Everyone

http://cnay.org/uploads/FastFacts.pdf

Center For Native American Youth Fast Facts For Everyone

Internet Safety Video

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/internet-safety-rules-road-kids

The video at the top of this page is a great video about cyberbullying and using the internet.
It's 3:21 long.

Cyberbullying: Stand By or Stand Up (15 mins activity)

http://www.nsteens.org/Comics/StandByOrStandUp

This is an interactive comic about Cyberbullying. It takes about 15 minutes to go through it.

Inspiration: AZUL - 8 min. short animated film

This is super great!

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70764352

Animation from Still Photography... In Space (4:00)

Check out this video made from actual photos that the Cassini Spacecraft too while it was orbiting Saturn. This is one of the coolest movies ever. Seriously. These are actual photos from space. The music and editing take it over the top.

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70532693

If you want to know more about the mission please visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Inspiration: The Light by Ihsu Yoon (3:35)

This next video was created with 3DSmax with Vray Render, Afterburn, Realflow and Aftereffects.

It's kind of mind blowing. It's a thesis project for a MFA in computer art at School of Visual Arts.

http://vimeo.com/11513211

Exoids Video (5:30)

Slugs and robots battle it out in a post nuclear apocalyptic world. I thought this might inspire you guys.
The music is very intense and loud.

http://vimeo.com/45478189

Vector Art: The Bug Video (4:47)

The Bug
http://vimeo.com/11513988

Here is a thesis project a student made at School of Visual Arts in New York. This project is how they earned their Masters Degree in Computer Art. The animation is awesome! They really have created their own world eh?

Multimedia Arts Festival 2013 Reel (2:38)

Here is some pretty cool vector art animation. They used AfterEffects to make this promo video for the Multimedia Arts Festival.

http://vimeo.com/63585755

Fishing With Spinoza Video (7:10)

This animated short film is really funny and well made. The art is so minimal it shows that you really don't need that many colors, or objects in your movie to tell a good story. Check it out.

http://vimeo.com/15798255

Between Bears Video (5:22)

This is some really amazing animation that I thought all my students should see. Winner of Best Animation Award at Vimeo's First Film Festival.

Between Bears

http://vimeo.com/13776542