Principles of Perception, Design, and Comics
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Filling in the gaps. Bobby McFerrin didn’t ask everyone to guess a sound - he started a pattern with one sound, then another, and another. The relationship between those sounds is design (the Pentatonic Scale), the audience participating to fill in the gaps demonstrates the Closure principle of perception.
I came across this video while preparing for a special series of the Lean Into Art Cast centered on the topic of Design. Andy Rutlege’s blog is a fantastic resource on Design. A great place to start exploring his writing is his 5 part Gestalt Principles of Perception series.
Worth noting: both Uniform Connectedness/Good Continuation and Closure have extra strong ties to the underlying mechanisms of comics as a highly participatory form of communication.
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Princess Mononoke, Studio Ghibli (1997)
Favorite movie.
Just realized I’ve misplaced my making-of Princess Mononoke book. The art and process were fascinating though the highlight of the book for me is the poetry Miyazaki wrote to capture the essence of the characters. I recall Yakul’s as being especially awesome.
Gohan sketch card. Both DBZ sketches due to my recent re-watching of the Garlic Jr. Saga.
Piccolo sketch card.
The Ice King Approaches #adventutretime #sketchcard
Polytechnicast - Service of a Game
In this episode of the Polytechnicast, I delve into some behind the scenes planning and development I do to support Guitar Fretter.
Recently I received an email from an Android user who is rather good at the game. On her Android device once she gets past level 12 or so the game has problems. I share details on how I’ll tackle that issue, ponder the complexities of the Android market, future updates for Guitar Fretter and behind the scenes thoughts on Guitar Fretter’s game design.
Links Mentioned and Links That Came to Mind While Writing These Show Notes
- Guitar Fretter
- Corona SDK - the tool I used to build Guitar Fretter
- Interview of Rob Stenzinger for the Ansca (maker of the Corona SDK) Blog
- Guitar Fretter - iTunes App Store
- Guitar Fretter - Android Market
- Guitar Fretter - Amazon Appstore
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com
Lean Into Art Cast - Skill Set Overlap
I call it an “emergent topic”. We started with the intent to mention my recent talk for the Comic Artist’s Forum at the Ann Arbor District Library and the topic took a life of its own. Jerzy and I went with it to explore how building an audience for your creative work is similar to both event planning and connecting with your local art scene.
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Great episode (http://5by5.tv/webahead/13) in a great podcast series. If you’re not already excited about learning and using current web site craft… “you will be… heh…heh… you will be”.
But over the past few months the conversations often distilled: His frustration with the social media space, gamification, the superficial Bay Area startup culture and all its behaviors. He was enduring the stress of becoming better-known for what he stood against than for what he stood for. And it quickly became clear to me that Cow Clicker was the receptacle for his aggression.
Polytechnicast - Jumping into Clojure with Special Guest Craig Andera
Clojure is a very different coding experience for someone like me who’s into Lua, Python, JavaScript, and ActionScript. Before this podcast I hadn’t written a single line of Clojure - now I feel I have a grasp on the basics.
This is an episode I hope will be interesting whether you’re curious about getting into coding, familiar with coding and are wondering about Clojure, or curious to see how I explore an unfamiliar coding language.
Links Mentioned
- Clojure - a Lisp-like programming language
- Craig Andera on Twitter
- Craig’s Blog
- Think Relevance Blog and Podcast
- Try Clojure - used this for the demo
- 4 Clojure - almost used this for the demo, requires signup
- Craig’s Clojure Tutorial (available for free from Pluralsight)
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com
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