GOLDEN DONUT FILM FESTIVAL, 2015

YOU'RE INVITED

MASON HALL, ROOM 2306

MONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2015

9AM

iMovie Resources

For those of you who have never used video editing software, I recommend iMovie by Apple (available for Mac and Windows machines.) It is very intuitive and will give you many excellent tools to assemble your video projects.

A very good book on the iMovie software features is David Pogue's iMovie:The Missing Manual. This book is available online (and in hardcopy) through our library system. (click on book title above to get to the Mirlyn listing)

For those of you who do not have iMovie (or other editing software packages) on your computers you can (1) use the software on the university computers or (2) access software on your own computers through the university's Virtual Sites. You will need to download a small piece of software that is a portal to the many programs available for UM affiliates.

WORKSHOP AND PUBLIC LECTURE: Francois Roche and Camille Lacadee

Francois Roche Workshop

"I'm gonna shake my hand" 

Topic/ 
Several days where you will question the “robotic handling, fondling, fiddling, caressing, slapping…” with a 3 fingers articulated Arduino servo puppet.

Output/ 
A movie of one minute and p.r.o.p.s (simple robotic artefact)


Schedule/ 
October 10 10a-12p / 2p-6p
October 11 10a-12p / 2p-6p
October 12 Work Day / Lecture 5p
October 13 Final Work Day
October 14 Final Critique 12p-2p
Workshop attendance is limited, email denizmc@umich.edu to request a spot.

PUBLIC LECTURE 10/09: Distinguished Alumna Lecture, Kristina Ford

Date: October 9, 2015 - 6:00pm

Building:  Art + Architecture Building

Room: Auditorium (room 2104)

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Kristina Ford’s thoughtful, well-informed and articulate assessments – heard on CNN, BBC and National Public Radio – became the first, public voice of reason to mediate the great storm’s human and civic consequences to America and beyond.  Starting in 1992 Ford was Director of City Planning in New Orleans; in 2000 she won the Award for Distinguished Leadership from Louisiana’s Chapter of the American Planning Association.  Ms. Ford is a frequent speaker on urban affairs, and has appeared on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and in Planning magazine.  Prior to publishing The Trouble with City Planning, she wrote Planning Small Town America.

VIDEO PRESHOW #5 - Videos featuring buildings from World Expos

There are very few buildings that remain from the World Fairs and Expos of the past. There are even fewer that are important to architects. This week's video preshows featured two such buildings.

On Monday we saw Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 in Leonard Cohen's video called "In My Secret Life."

You will recall that Moshe Safdie designed this building as a thesis project while he was still a student at McGill University in Montreal. To learn more about it check out these links:
Arch Daily Classics: Habitat '67
Great Buildings Online: Really good drawings, pix, and VIDEOS of the apartments
Dwell Magazine: A renovated flat

Another building remaining from the 1967 World Expo in Montreal is the United States Pavilion designed by Buckminster Fuller.

To learn more about "Bucky" Fuller and his career's work, start here.

We also saw two videos that contained the Eiffel Tower.  The Eiffel Tower was designed in 1889 for the the Paris World Fair by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two engineers who worked for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. It continues to be the tallest structure in France

 ...and one of the most mythologized objects in the world.

Here's the video by Kendrick Lamar featuring the tower. (Thank you Jason Levin)

...and here's another slightly less explicit one by the Bloodhound Gang.