📝 Penn Week 7a – Digital Images, Visual Research Workshop

👀 CSS Animation Show and Tell

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Break! Come back at 3:05

🧿 Digital Images Intro (In Defense of the Poor Image continuation)

Vertical Video Syndrome – Glove and Boots (2012)


"At the time of writing, none of the hundred-plus comments had seriously questioned why films should not be shot in vertical, nor asked what types of new composition and framing could arise from using a different alignment." – Miriam Ross and Maddy Glen in Vertical Cinema: New Digital Possibilities (2014)



"Vertical Cinema Manifesto" – Miriam Ross and Maddy Glen (2013)


  • What is the tone of voice of this video? Is it tongue in cheek; playful? Where do you get that impression?
  • What is this video critiquing?
  • What kind of storytelling techniques are used in this video to communicate their opinion?

George Floyd – Darnella Frazier (2020)

  • 17 year old Darnella is shown third from the right, recording George Floyd’s murder. A key piece of evidence in the trial against Derek Chauvin.
  • This video was named a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citations and Awards


9 Eyes – Jon Rafman (2008 – )

  • An ongoing collection of mysterious and alluring screenshots taken using Google Street View. Nine Eyes of Google Street View is both an archival project and a conceptual meditation on the state of photography in a time of automated image making on a massive scale.


Modern Life Space – Laurel Schwulst (2011)

  • During the rise of AirBnB, an international style formed that was ubiquitously accepted. AirBnB was intended to show real people’s homes, but instead ended up creating a generic aesthetic.