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Arp’s Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance)

Beth — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:14:19 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Jean (Hans) Arp’s Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance), 1916-17 (MoMA)

Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m, 1932.

Beth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:56:58 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Giacometti’s The Palace at 4am, 1932 (MoMA).

Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1932-40

Beth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:53:27 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Brancusi’s Bird in Space, 1932-40 (MoMA).

De Kooning, Woman I (1950-52)

Beth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:47:31 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Willem De Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52 (MoMA).

Jasper Johns, Flag (1954-55)

Beth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:36:30 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55 (MoMA).

Matisse, The Red Studio (1911)

Beth — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:41:32 +0000

Whew! Did this one by editing the audio in Garageband, then saving it in iTunes, converting it to an mp3, bringing that into Camtasia, and then using the zoom and pan feature which is a lot of fun.

Click below to watch the video of this painting at MoMA.

Barnett Newman’s Onement I

Beth — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:53:04 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Barnett Newman’s Onement, I, 1948 (MoMA).

An enhanced podcast: Rothko’s No. 3/No. 13

Beth — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:04:52 +0000

Click below for a video of Mark Rothko’s No. 3/No. 13, 1949 (MoMA)

Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe

Beth — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:31:57 +0000

An enhanced podcast about Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Museum of Modern Art.

Mondrian — a podcast

Beth — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:07:47 +0000

Piet Mondrian’s Composition No. II, with Red and Blue, 1929 (original date partly obliterated; mistakenly repainted 1925 by Mondrian) (MoMA)

Jackson Pollock, One. Number 31, 1950 (1950; MoMA)

Beth — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:20:43 +0000

Here’s a podcast about this beautiful Jackson Pollock that can still be difficult to grapple with.

Giacometti, City Square, 1948 (MoMA)

Beth — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:52:12 +0000

Here is our enhanced podcast about Giacometti’s strange “sculpture,” City Square (1948).

Seurat, Evening Honfleur (Museum of Modern Art, 1886)

Beth — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:58:10 +0000

An enhanced podcast about this beautiful painting at MoMA.

Van Gogh’s Starry Night at MoMA

Beth — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:17:00 +0000

Here are our observations about this famous painting, and the crowds that continually surround it at the Museum of Modern Art.

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake, 1962 (MoMA)

Beth — Mon, 22 May 2006 01:18:04 +0000

A podcast about this fun sculpture of a giant piece of cake.

Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1895-98 (MoMA)

Beth — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:55:00 +0000

Here’s another podcast from yesterday’s trip to MoMA — about Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples (1895-8). And like with the Malevich White on White, we ask what it is about Cezanne’s paintings that make them great — and that make his work such a critical linchpin between the nineteenth and the twentieth century.

Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1895-98 (MoMA) — an enhanced podcast

Beth — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:44:00 +0000

I spent most of yesterday afternoon creating an enhanced podcast from one of our existing audiofiles — the one on Cezanne’s Still Life at MoMA. I had been looking at Pachyderm — and trying to create an example learning object to show the folks at the Museum at FIT what’s possible without a big technology budget. I realized that most of the Pachyderm templates allow for small movie files (2-3MB), but all of our screencasts are much larger. So, I thought that if I made an enhanced podcast with Camtasia, using only a few still images, perhaps the file size would be small enough to be plugged into Pachyderm.

So, I set out to make an enhanced podcast — it took a long time. As usual, a lot of time was spent gathering the right images and bringing them into Camtasia. Then I seemed to have problems with matching the still images with where I wanted them to go with the audio. When I would shift over the image, it seemed like other parts of the movie would shift in other places, and so I had to go back several times to fix things. When I first produced it as a quicktime movie, the transitions, which looked so lovely in Camtasia looked bad, and in addition, a couple of times the images changed sizes — when I hadn’t done that. And I think that later when I opened the Camtasia files, the alignment of the audio and visual tracks had shifted again.

Anyway, I got rid of the transitions and re-produced it. It is still too large (13MB) to put into Pachyderm I think, since the instructions there say 3-4 MB because of download time. Still, it might be useful to try it. We’ll see what it looks like on the video ipod…

Here it is.

Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918 (MoMA)

Beth — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:14:28 +0000

Again, re-posted from our old blog:
we continued creating podcasts / audioguides — this time for works of art in the Museum of Modern Art. We tried hard to stay away from lecturing, which isn’t always easy. MoMA encourages visitors to create their own audioguides and they post their audioguides on their website. It is interesting to compare our podcast (in the form of a conversation) with MoMA’s approach.

Branching out to MoMA – Malevich Podcast

Beth — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:06:00 +0000

Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918)

Today, we continued creating podcasts / audioguides — this time for works of art in the Museum of Modern Art. We tried hard to stay away from lecturing, which isn’t always easy. MoMA encourages visitors to create their own audioguides and they post their audioguides on their website. It is interesting to compare our podcast (in the form of a conversation) with MoMA’s approach.

Right click here to download the mp3 or use the player below to listen.