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Jericos, by Anderson Schneider, is an exhibit from Projecto Lambe-Lambe.
I chose this for my multimedia critique for three reasons:
There are a many incredible images contained in this piece.
The excellent editing; both of sound and imagery.
The presentation.

All told, the images speak for themselves. There are a great many of them as well, from what looks like one event. I think that the editing of this multimedia presentation is both its greatest asset and its greatest hindrance to being more.
Clearly not meant to be a “photojournalistic” piece, Jericos opens with incredible audio of the garage seen in the photographs. The presentation of images in sync with the music, the way group shots are often shown in pieces and then as a whole, and the sequencing are all “pros.” However, It would have been nicer if the number of images shown were cut down, as each images barely has enough time to register before fading to black.
I’m a fan of Cake’s music, and I think that the song goes incredibly well with what you see on-screen, but information and audio letting me know who these people are and what they’re doing would have been a better choice. Again, I know it’s to keep the viewer engaged, but I just wanted to know more.

+ a fun song!

Photos at the Farm Fresh Stables. Subject: Shannon Bishop.

http://www.torgovnik.com/

Jonathan Torgovnik is a photographer is currently a Newsweek photographer. His best known work is "Bollywood," a look into the Indian motion picture industry and culture.

His website is very slick, with an entirely Flash based interface. Navigation is easy with the two navigation tool bars. His work is also well represented; playing at the index page as a slideshow, rotating in the background of text based pages such as the biography section, and of course in his portfolio page.

One of the things I like most about Mr. Torgonivik's site is the visual themes and elements that are found throughout his website. Besides the color/style scheme, the most prominent of these elements is the recurring use of a vertical yellow line. It is part of every Flash navigation and loading graphic. It's visual and striking, exactly the image a photographer should convey.

I found the interface to be quite intuitive. I also like how he divided up his site. It's not just the standard about/portfolio/contact, but has different sections for different types of work, expanded menus, and he lists his most ambitious work, Bollywood, in its own page.

I very much like Torgovnik's work, and the same can be said for his website.

Dr. Lorenzen lectures on the proper way to feed a pig to produce the proper body composition for butchering. A full skeleton of a sow is kept in the room for demonstration purposes.




Students watch meat being ground by the mixer. Several of those watching the process reported feeling nauseous.




Ground pork for use in chorizo, a spicy Mexican sausage.




Eric Allphin, a senior Animal Science major, prepares the mixer for filling sausage casings. Most sausages are placed in an edible cellulose casing.




Plant Manager Rick Disslhorst, Eric Allphin and Patrick Mallory fill ground sausage packages for sale at the Mizzou Meet Market. Students in Dr. Lorenzen's class won't be able to participate until the latter half of the semester.

http://www.fwaphoto.com
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com

I'm a fan of both of these site, though the latter is the only one that can really be considered a multimedia site.

Let’s start with visible flaws with NYTLens. The layout is clunky. It isn’t organized well. It almost feels like a middle page in the Times itself – lots of text for a photo-oriented site. This leads to navigation issues. Where do I go next? Where are the archives? They are there, the just blend into the text of the page.

That being said, the content is routinely fantastic and often current. It’s remarkably interactive for a non-user focused webpage. Links aren’t too easy to find, as stated earlier, due to the fact that they look like the 12-point Arial text of everything else on the page. There’s also not much flash, but plenty of video and slideshow content that correspond with current newspaper headlines in the NYTimes itself. The text color is too close to the background color, too.

It looks as though it implements tables, but I’m not certain. Actually, it looks like a converted Blogger or WordPress site, which wouldn’t be a stretch considering it IS their blog. I think many of the style problems and layout crunch could be solved by a renovation with a much more coherent stylesheet.