The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier was an exhibit recently showcased at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA from March 24, 2012 – August 19, 2012. I’ve taken these photos to try and summarize the exhbit which featured innovative projection and lighting technology. Jean Paul Gaultier’s seductive stylings and successes as a haute couture fashion designer were beautifully displayed and narrated throughout the exhibit. 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter designs were presented as an engaging retrospective of Gaultier’s work and highlighted the controversial, whimsical, and innovate designs that have made Jean Paul Gaultier world famous.
Gaultier on Display
The Science of Hipster Music
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
Reserve a Spot for the DC Drive-In at Union Market
DCist has a writeup on the newly announced DC summer drive-in movies at Union Market. Looks like there are plans to use the large white wall of the market to show movies! I’ll be walking over to catch these films. If you intend to drive there are extra spots available even though car spot reservations are all booked up.
The Anatomy of a Spider-Man Visual Effects Shot
Sony Imageworks has posted excellent breakdowns on YouTube of movie vfx shots they have created. Particularly cool is this three minute deconstruction of the high school fight scene between the…
Why Katharine Haché is Playing Games With Stories
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
PSY – GANGNAM STYLE, Korean: Exporter of Asian Culture
It seems like only a few years ago when Japan had the monopoly on the export of weird Asian culture. But now Korea will be a contender in that game,…
Pixar’s Enrico Casarosa’s short film “La Luna”
I’m an animation geek and have been a fan of Pixar Animation Studio since the Listerine ads from the early 90s– before I knew that there was such a thing…
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