February 11, 2008
Free Range Video Contest
The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.
The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!
The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.
Posted by Michelle at 09:59 AM
December 18, 2007
Spring 2008 Short Courses
The Spring 2008 schedule for Studio Short Courses is now up and registration is open. Our hands-on courses cover basics when working with iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Pro Tools. If you have a project and need to learn any of this software, consider signing up for a short 1-hour, hands-on class in The Studio.
Visit our website for course listings now!
Posted by Michelle at 11:42 AM
December 12, 2007
Free Range Video Contest
The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.
The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!
The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.
Posted by Michelle at 11:09 AM
July 27, 2007
color schemes
Ever need help deciding a color scheme for a project? There are many sites and books that can help you. A new site still in beta testing that I've come across and like is dailycolorscheme.com.
Their color schemes come complete with hex, rgb, and hsb codes. You can download the schemes for photosop, illustrator, colorschemer studio, a css file, or an html file. Very simple to work with and convenient.
Posted by Michelle at 08:37 AM
July 19, 2007
The (Photoshop) Art of Beauty
I found an interesting blog post discussing the beauty "trickery" that is all around us in media today. It's an interesting read, some striking images, and links to a nifty little tutorial. From the folks at idigit design. check it out.
Posted by Michelle at 08:10 AM
March 22, 2007
The Studio is on Myspace
Hey everyone, The Studio is now on Myspace as a way to help promote and inform our community of digital artists and media users!
Check us out at:
http://www.myspace.com/hodgesstudio
We'd love to hear from you and add you to our friends!
Posted by tbrady2 at 09:40 PM
March 12, 2007
FreeRange Contest Registration and Submission Deadline Extended
The deadline to register for and submit videos for the 3rd Annual Free Range Video Contest has been extended to Monday, March 26. Check our website for details.
In other contest news, we now have 3 new sponsors, Apple Computer, the UC Computer Store, and SellMyTimeshareNow.com. It looks like we'll have another round of great prizes including iPod shuffles, software and even a cash prize this year.
If you haven't yet registered for the contest but you have something to say about the state of the environment we encourage you to register now. The contest is open to students, faculty and staff on the UT Knoxville campus.
Posted by Michelle at 03:48 PM
January 03, 2007
eCycle event Saturday, January 13th
Visit the Plug-In to Your Community website for information about their upcoming eCycle day. They are offering a drop off recycling program on Saturday, January 13th at the Staples on Town and Country Circle (Cedar Bluff area).
This one day free eCycle event collects old computers, laptops, parts, peripherals, TVs, and a few other electronic items. All of these items have hazardous materials and should not be disposed of with your regular garbage. This event provides the community with the opportunity to properly recycle these items.
Posted by Michelle at 08:44 AM
November 08, 2006
It's not too late!
The Studio is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our Third Annual Free Range Video Contest. Registration is open until March 9th. We will be working with the Make Orange Green campaign this year and the screening will be a part of the campus Earth Day festivities.
Posted by Michelle at 03:02 PM
October 04, 2006
Free Range Video Contest - Registration Open
Registration is now open for this year's Free Range Video Contest.
The theme this year is Make Orange Green
Do you have an environmental practice you want to share?
Are there environmental issues on campus that you want to explore?
Are there things you can recommend that we can all do to help the environment?
Do you like making video?
Would you like to make your voice heard?
If you answered yes to any of these, consider registering to participate in the Free Range Video Contest. The Studio can help create an entry by providing cameras and equipment you can checkout, video editing workstations and instruction and assistance along the way.
Posted by Michelle at 10:54 AM
September 06, 2006
Free Range Video Contest: Make Orange Green
The Studio is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our Third Annual Free Range Video Contest. We will be working with the Make Orange Green campaign this year and the screening will be a part of the campus Earth Day festivities. Check our website soon for contest registration and details.
Posted by Michelle at 04:53 PM
September 01, 2006
Online Web Tutorials
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials.
This is a good way to begin learning your HTML, CSS and etc.
Posted by at 02:50 PM
August 23, 2006
Studio Short Courses Fall 2006
The Studio offers a series of one-hour, hands-on classes to UT students, faculty and staff. Check out our schedule of courses for Fall 2006. We have updated our iLife classes using iLife 06 and have added an iWeb class. We continue to offer a Photoshop class and a Final Cut Pro class. Sign up for one today to jump-start your next digital project.
Posted by Michelle at 08:32 AM
August 02, 2006
Yet another free stock photo site
Stock.xchng is a free stock photo resource. You can sign up to submit your photos or download photos to use for your projects. Thanks Connie for the suggestion.
Posted by Michelle at 09:19 AM
June 15, 2006
Apple Pro-Apps Seminar
Apple will be giving a Pro-Apps Seminar on June 27.
They will be focusing on Final Cut Studio and Aperture.
The event will be held 1pm-4pm in the Hodges Library Auditoriu. Please bring any questions you have.
Posted by Michelle at 08:42 AM
April 05, 2006
Talk on Games in Higher Education This Friday (4/7/06)
OIT's series of talks on games in higher education concludes this Friday,
April 7, with Nora Barry from Druid Media, who will be speaking via
videoconferencing on "Descent to the Underworld." "Descent" is a
multi-national collaborative film project that brings together students
via Internet2 and its international partners from Asia, Europe, and South
America to create their own version of the Orpheus myth. The event will be
held from 12:30-1:30 pm in Hodges Auditorium, and is free and open to the
public.
Nora Barry is a creator, producer and curator of networked Internet video
events, web cinema and online digital media art. Barry curated an exhibit,
A History of Web Cinema, for the international show, Future Cinema, at the
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Germany, and wrote a
chapter for the book which accompanied the exhibit, "Telling Tales Online:
A History of Web Cinema." She also wrote "Digital Shanachies" for the Ars
Electronica text, "Takeover: Who's Doing the Art of Tomorrow."
Posted by Michelle at 04:52 PM
March 02, 2006
Games in Higher Education
ITC and SunSITE will present the third in its series of talks on games and
game design in higher education this Friday, March 3, at 12:30pm. Chris
Swain from the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern
California School of Cinema-Television will speak live via
videoconference on Play-centric Games Education. The event is free and
open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: THE TALK THIS WEEK WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE
UC AUDITORIUM.
The Electronic Arts Interactive Entertainment Program at the USC School of
Cinema-Television is a program that combines a broad liberal arts
background with specialization in the history, theory and practice of
creating games and interactive entertainment. The purpose of the program
is to develop critical thinkers and designers who can produce the next
generation of interactive entertainment. The program embodies the concept
of "play-centric design" which puts player experience at the heart of the
design process and teaches a system of prototyping, playtesting and
iterative design that has been proven in almost a decade of student work.
Chris Swain s a visiting professor and co-director of the EA Game
Innovation Lab at the USC School of Cinema. At USC he is interested in how
games - which are mathematical systems - work as dramatic systems.
Previously Chris was a founding member of game developer Spiderdance, Inc.
- a company focused on games for mass audiences. Prior to Spiderdance,
Chris was a founding member of R/GA Interactive, a premiere New York
design firm. At R/GA, he designed and produced over 150 interactive
products for clients that include: Disney, Activision, America Online,
Warner Brothers, the BBC, Children's Television Workshop, Discovery
Channel, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and PBS among many others. Chris has
served on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences (Emmys). He led the team that established the first Emmy for
"Excellence in Interactive Television" and he chairs the Academy's
Editorial Committee. In addition he serves on the Board of Advisors for
the American Film Institute's Enhanced Television Workshop. Chris is
co-author of the book "Game Design Workshop" which was published in 2004
by CMP Books
Posted by Michelle at 02:26 PM
January 17, 2006
Second Annual Free Range Video Contest
The Studio is pleased to announce our Second Annual Free Range Video Contest to be held during the Spring Semester 2006. The theme this year is Perspectives.
The contest is open to all UT Knoxville students, faculty and staff. Registration ends March 6. A festival night will complete the contest in April and prizes will be awarded. For event details and registration, please see our website.
Posted by Michelle at 02:18 PM
April 19, 2005
Transom.org - Power to the People, Again
Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more. Learn about how Transom works and how you can submit your work for consideration.
Transom: A Showcase & Workshop for New Public Radio
Posted by admin at 06:23 AM
April 15, 2005
Mercora - Private Radio Stations
Posted by admin at 11:36 PM
January 27, 2005
CCMixter: Community Music Sharing
Creative Commons has launched an experimental web site called
CC Mixter - The remix family tree. This site reinvigorates the idea of the "remix," encouraging people to use, reuse, recycle, and share remixed music.
Could be a source of sound for your Recycled Video project!
From the site:
"This is a community music sharing site featuring songs licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. To get this project started, we've dedicated the space to WIRED Magazine's November 2004 Issue, which featured 16 songs on THE WIRED CD -- Rip. Mix. Sample. Mash. Share., all licensed under the Sampling Licenses. If you're into music, browse this site to hear the original WIRED tracks, or, the new songs that people have built from sampling them. If you're into sampling and mash-ups we have the full tracks and loops in a ready to mix format, and you can upload your version back into CC Mixter, for others to enjoy. You can also upload and remix your own creations here, apart from the WIRED contest currently underway."
Posted by admin at 08:05 AM
July 13, 2004
iMovieFest.com
Another community/sharing site has launched around Apple's "digital lifestyle" apps. iMovieFest.com claims to be "an exclusive film community for Mac filmmakers... iMovieFest.com also gives you access to online movie galleries where you can rate/review movies you've seen, get exclusive tutorials, download free sound effects, participate in interactive forums, fun filmmaking contests and other goodies that will give you the tools and skills you need to make great movies!" Although you can know everything about iMovie (a mere software app) or Final Cut Pro for that matter, making great movies is another thing altogether. Having said that, Tarnation, made with iMovie and for 200 dollars, was a hit at Cannes.
Posted by admin at 07:44 PM
July 10, 2004
Into the Blogosphere
Who says blog culture is undertheorized?
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
Posted by admin at 07:06 AM
July 09, 2004
PalmOne & Macintosh
Have Palm? Have a Mac? This site is your friend.
Posted by admin at 07:28 AM
Mac Hints and Tips for July
The web site Mac Hints & Tips has released its July issue as PDF. This monthly newsletter of tips is a compilation of hints and tips from a wide variety of Macintosh user groups.
Posted by admin at 07:15 AM
April 01, 2004
Independent Media Centers and dadaIMC
The Creative Commons weblog reports on the use of dadaIMC, a content management tool that allows organizations to support an open publishing model with an infrastructure for ingesting and displaying new media content. It supports Creative Commons licenses and goes a step further by providing a license that explicitly signals the allowance of derivative uses. For an example, check out the Baltimore Independent Media Center.
Posted by admin at 07:41 AM
March 05, 2004
Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel - Manifesto
MUDDA - The Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists.
"We are determined that we should try and take advantage of this situation and help transform the music business in such a way that artists are on level terms with record companies, receive fair payments and have new opportunities to be their own retailer when they choose. "
http://www.mudda.org/index.lasso?page=home
Posted by admin at 07:38 AM