Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor Blog
TED’s A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
Learn how to share images with other faculty, staff and students via the UTSOA’s Flickr group by watching the video posted on YouTube.
Unable to find the right word? the Visual Thesaurus, available through the VRC’s website, can help you explore concepts through their ever expanding word maps. Learn more by watching the video posted on YouTube.
Photo by Steve Brosnahan from The Glass House website.
The Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project gathers together the memories of Johnson’s friends and colleagues and has created two video documentaries in order to broaden our understanding of modern design. The first two films produced by the project, include Architecture and Influence, and Frank Stella: Return to the Glass House and are viewable here.
ScreenToaster is a great, free online tool. A web-based recorder, it captures screen activity in real-time so you can quickly and easily create tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.
Clip from “Strike a Pose: Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Space”
The design and publishing firm, Gestalten, creates a wide range of video pod-casts (documentaries, interviews, features) which cover architecture, art, design, typography and visual culture. View cutting edge content on Gestalten.tv
The Cr103 library contains more than 6GB of free still and moving images of abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas that you can download and use in your own work. The downloads can be inserted directly in your designs as layer textures or simply used as ideas for further development. In addition, you can share and promote your own work by uploading it for use by others.
Cr103 materials are free to download and use, but must be credited if used in any commercial application or product.
PBS Video, now in beta, provides streaming video from such award-winning programs as Frontline, American Masters, Antique Roadshow and Nova. The video collection Be Green explores the environmental crisis and how we can work to reverse this course through policy, technology and ingenuity.
In 140 bytes or less, Twitter has moved into the social networking limelight. For those of us who are luddites, who just don’t get it, Lee LeFever has produced a brief instructional video that explains this micro-blogging quandary in Plain English. LeFever’s philosophy–if paper cutouts can do it, so can you.
LeFever’s video is also available on YouTube.
Still image from “American Look,” a “populuxe” film on 50s design
The Prelinger Archives is a collection of ephemeral films. Over 60,000 reels were donated to the Library of Congress. The remainder of the collection is maintained by Rick Prelinger and 2,000 titles are available on the Internet Archive. Highlights include A Communications Primer by Ray and Charles Eames. A wide selection of films made in the 1950s and 1960s deal with industrial design and technological advances in the home.
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