February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchTrailer #3.
Clearly a lot of work went into developing the iMovie trailer templates, from the title animations to the shot suggestions to the original scores recored with the London Symphony Orchestra. And I’ll grant that I don’t have a better idea about how to motivate people to edit and share their home movies.
But if you’re going to use standard home movie footage, these trailers are kind of...
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Watch…and here’s Trailer #2. We snuck a few Action Movie Effects into this one.
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WatchFor the boy’s birthday party we made some movies with his pals and a green screen made with a bed sheet and dowel rods. Here’s Trailer #1.
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“High-functioning”
John Elder Robison has turned advocacy for people with autism into one of his Aspergian special interests. He kicks ass in this interview with Steve Silberman from last May:
One of the things that troubles people about the use of labels like “low-functioning” and “high-functioning” is that people will call a five-year-old kid who can’t talk “low-functioning,” yet a kid who has language skills,...
December 2011
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Top 10 shots of 2011
It is truth enough to be a cliché: the more I learn about photography, and the better I get at it, the less about it I understand.
Here are ten shots from this year I feel the luckiest to have captured when I did. In no particular order. Four from my phone.
They’re not of neon signs, or clouds, or designs drawn in foam in a mug.
They’re of moments.
Moments that in many cases did...
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Ice Cube and The Eames
The exhibition poster showed up on MLKSHK a couple of months ago, and the new video is terrific.
I watched this right after that Rick Perry commercial, so I embrace this as a competing vision of what makes America great.
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Watch(excerpted from my #mulenog11 application, because why should you have to listen to me shouting to enjoy this)
#lightsplease #luke2:8-14
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WatchTHEY SAID THEY WANTED SINCERE.
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November 2011
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Flummox and Friends: Social skills programming for... →
“The comedy isn’t an add-on. It’s the focus of the show. I would be perfectly happy if kids didn’t realize they were watching a show about social skills.”
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I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Whole...
Both books (At School, At Home) are very nice. And they’ve been co-authored by one of the directors at a terrific speech/language/social learning organization here in Oakland.
The books break down some basics of social communication into discrete details about what each part of the body should be doing when listening to someone else. (Eyes? On the other person. Mouth? Quiet, not humming,...
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism: Interview:... →
Unfortunately, many of the products designed to teach social skills seem to ignore how sophisticated and smart our kids are. So for example, you’ve got a kid who enjoys the rapid fire dialogue of, say Phineas and Ferb, or can point out the differences between the original Star Wars and the 2011 reissue, and you give that kid a worksheet that says, “When I see my friend I say...
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