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NUIT A&RT Presenting @ CMSEXPO 2013

By Harlan Wallach on 15 May 2013 – 6:26 am
Location: (42° 2' 42"N x 88° 18' 44"W)

Traveling all the way to downtown Evanston this afternoon to present at the 2013 CMS EXPO at the Orrington Hotel. The name of my talk today is “Using Drupal in Higher Education: A Flexible Tool in a Mixed CMS Environment“, and you can read about it here.

Casting Call for Summer Production

By Harlan Wallach on 8 May 2013 – 10:45 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

Want to get paid to act this summer?   This seven-episode comic web series follows a group of three students trying to do something worthwhile with their summer.   Auditions will be on Monday, May 13th between 5:00-9:00pm Callbacks will be on Tuesday, May 28th between 5:00-9:00pm Sides will be provided.   The shoot will [...]

More video with Prof. Ely, this time with Prof. Baliga

By Harlan Wallach on 29 Jan 2013 – 2:41 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

We had the great opportunity to be back in the studio for a shoot last week with WCAS Professor Jeff Ely and Kellogg Professor Sandeep Baliga. A pretty exciting little project, where we are working with them to produce an announcement for NU Sports. You’ll have to wait to see the video when it goes [...]

Timbuktu manuscripts at risk …

By Harlan Wallach on 25 Jul 2012 – 10:32 am
Location: (16° 46' 30"N x 4° 59' 22"W)

Last night, Erin Burnett of CNN’s OUTFRONT reported from Timbuktu Mali, that the Islamic Fundamentalists that now control all of northern Mali have started burning the ancient manuscripts in the family held public libraries. She reports from unconfirmed eye witnesses that the manuscripts are being removed from the largest public library of ancient manuscripts and [...]

TriQuarterly Issue 142 is live

By Harlan Wallach on 16 Jul 2012 – 9:05 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

Read: Triquarterly Issue 142 contains: An Essay by: John Bresland – Hanoi Jane, Mon Amour Literary Video Essays by : Bill Roorbach – Starflower, Angela Mears – You Are Here,  Josh Marie Wilkinson -The Lightning and Joe Bonomo- Beatles Girl, Where Have You Gone? .  New Poetry by Sharon Olds: Hip Replacement Ode , Moonset, Sea-Level [...]

“Media Vision for Libya” goes live

By Harlan Wallach on 12 Apr 2012 – 6:23 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

  The Media Vision for Libya web site has gone live, a quick turn-around project we were asked to support for the Qatar Campus of Northwestern University. This is a technologically interesting project in that it is fully a bi-lingual site, with parallel arabic and english translations (right to left – left to right alphabets) [...]

Northwestern Documentary Premieres

By Harlan Wallach on 6 Mar 2012 – 10:20 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

March 7, 2012, 4PM, “Controlling the Fire: The value of the bead in Ghana” will have it’s premiere Northwestern screening. This was a project co-produced by NUIT with faculty from Anthropology and History. Willian Gblerkpor, one of the featured scholars in the film will add a commentary after the film, as will other academic experts. [...]

More from the “where are they are now” file…

By Harlan Wallach on 24 Feb 2012 – 5:43 pm
Location: (42° 3' 28"N x 88° 19' 25"W)

  Watching Josh Anon talk about his work at PIXAR at the ITW Ford Design center. Josh, MSE 2003,  was an early employee of the NUIT NUAMPS group. Before my tenure as media architect, but none the less, we’ll claim him as one of our own.

Great Chicago Fire Website Permalinks

By Gus Childs on 14 Dec 2011 – 9:27 am
Location: (41° 52' 41"N x 88° 22' 12"W)

As described in a previous post,  alongside the improvements to the Chicago Fire iPhone app were a number of additions to the website, The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory. The primary focus of these updates were to create permalinks for every object found on the site. This was done for two reasons: To [...]

5 years with the Oncofertility Consortium

By Harlan Wallach on 11 Nov 2011 – 11:37 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

We’ve had the pleasure to support an important research effort, and a great member of the NU Faculty for the last five years, Dr. Teresa Woodruff. The video above was produced as part of the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium annual conference, and was presented this fall. It was produced to function in a small way as [...]

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