Doctored Photo of Women in the House

What's as interesting as the photo is the explanation that Pelosi provides: it's not accurate in terms of the people who were actually there, but rather accurate in terms of the conditions prevailing when the picture was taken ;)

See http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Pelosi-defends-doctored-House-women-photo-4168972.php

More Palimpsest Maps . . .

Palimpsest Maps of Visual Rhetoric

Kerfuffle over Logos at Univ of CA

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/10/u-californias-new-logo-sparks-outrage

The Danger in Changing Form

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/christmas-tree-controversy-fires-multicultural-belgium/?src=twrhp

Just a cool thing I thought I'd share

Hi all,
I just saw this video as I was sifting through short films to use for class next semester. I thought it was really interesting given our recent reading of Multimodality and discussions of visual rhetoric over the semester. I posted the text from the original site below, but check out the link to see the interactive experience.

http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/06/18/welcome-to-pine-point/

Welcome to Pine Point

A REMARKABLE INTERACTIVE MEDIA EXPERIENCE ABOUT A TOWN THAT’S NO LONGER ON THE MAP, BUT IS NOT FORGOTTEN.

Though it’s been out for a while, NFB’s interactive documentary, Welcome to Pine Point, certainly deserves more recognition.
It’s a story about an abandoned Canadian mining town that sprang up from nowhere, existed for a generation, and then was completely erased from the face of the earth. It tells of the profound impact the town had on a generation of children and neighbors who now feel as if their origins were somehow all a dream. Pine Point is a place that now exists only in memories—memories that tend to erase the bad. It’s become a utopia, a bittersweet home they can never return to.
Welcome to Pine Point is a part of NFB/Interactive—a great collection of interactive stories from Canadian perspectives. Interactive storytelling is still in its infancy and more often than not mishandled. But Welcome toPine Point represents itself beautifully as a scrapbook of yearbook photos, film footage, interviews, and a haunting soundtrack. Thanks to the care taken by its creators, The Goggles (Paul Shoebridge & Michael Simons), the end result is one of the more touching documentaries you’ll experience in a long time.

Kress addresses intent in a way we haven't seen it this class. The ways in which we've discussed intent has been governed by the term evaluation. However by use of design, intent seems to govern evaluation, especially through the example of small children. Modality here cares less about the aesthetic of design but the intention of design. What did you mean by such image and if it communicates in the way it’s intended, then there you have it.

Modality allows for different ways of seeing, and feeling. It’s quite intriguing as I think about how visually impaired students communicate in this conversation. It suggests that even one who is impaired can participate in the layering of meaning. Exciting!