ARCHIVE April, 2010

Man on Wire

September 28, 2009

The Sundance channel is running a marvelous documentary about the Frenchman, Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, walked across a wire between the World Trade Towers, in NYC. What an engaging meditation on so many things, beauty, dreams, risk, mystery…the Towers… Petit was immediately arrested after making 8 crossings on his walk, and people demanded to [...]

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

September 16, 2009

I asked my Advanced Typography students to visually “animate” this poem by Billy Collins, expecting to see 2D typographical layouts, but Nick Garcia produced this great start for a video animation of the poem.