Category Archives: POD

I don’t know what it is about images placed next to text that creates polarization among people, but that’s the experience I had in my second critique last night. Is it a good thing? I don’t know. My experience with images next to text has been in a completely editorial way, where the text is supposed to guide the viewer through the images. Tell the viewer how to think about them. The pieces I showed in critique were meant to … Continue reading →

Last weekend I took a ferry to Governor’s Island to see the progress being made to turning the former army post into a preservation/park. Being an urban island undergoing environmental change, I immediately began to compare it to Treasure Island in SF. Like Treasure Island, a large portion is man-made out of land fill. Also, both islands played host to military posts. However, the big difference I immediately discovered between the two islands is how each city plans to transform … Continue reading →