| Demand is growing for web designers
In a dimly lit classroom at a funky building in downtown Miami, instructor Birago Jones rattles off the day's lesson in a language that might seem foreign to visitors. ''What Flash is telling you is that there are four paradigms,'' Jones tells his students at Miami International University of Art and Design. Flash, paradigms, animation, ActionScript -- this is the lingo in the world of web design. The jargon for these Internet-savvy students is as familiar as the +, - and x symbols in a math class. ''There is a digital revolution that is on right now,'' says Suzanne Morrison Williams, chair of web design and interactive media at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, which offers one of the oldest web design educational programs in the nation. ``The web is no longer an additional tool, it is part of what we do.'' AREAS OF STUDY Those learning the tools are hoping to make a living in an industry that is continuously evolving and has three main categories: • Design focuses on the aesthetics of an Internet site.
The way we were: Walters Art Museum unfolds the greatest maps of the world
BALTIMORE - Maps today are a bit impersonal, usually accessed via a quick click of the mouse or the touch of a GPS screen.
Maps are still invaluable, though they used to be brilliant works of art. Some - and this is no overstatement - changed the world. Historical maps made tangible our reverence for home, city, nation and world. They conveyed religious conviction, made cultures come alive and shaped scientific theory.They were also breathtakingly beautiful.The Walters Art Museum's "Maps: Finding our Place in the World" unfurls a treasure trove of more than 100 of the world's greatest maps. Opening Sunday, the exhibit features fragments of a marble street map from ancient Rome and original maps by such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin. There is a map carved out of wood to show coastlines, one painstakingly printed on a tiny white glove and others showing mythical sea creatures and monsters.In "Maps," X marks many a different kind of spot."I like to call it the greatest show on earth," said William Noel, the Walters' curator of manuscripts and rare books, of the exhibit.
On view: Mark Hooper, John Calvelli
Mark Hooper's new show at Quality Pictures is a continuation of a kind of performance art photography: staged tableaux set in the ruins of buildings or in slightly ravaged patches of nature. The mood is always quiet and desolate, with usually a sole individual peering intently at something, somewhere. Mysterious and creepy in the way that Gregory Crewdson's terribly affected images are, Hooper's photographs evoke the lovely surreal, bending reality into a dream world signifying the vague. Is he trying to express something profound or just an ironist speaking through the language of ennui? Quality Pictures, 916 N.W. Hoyt St. Continues until April 26. John Calvelli is the prototype of the kind of Portland transplant that has enriched and deepened the local cultural scene in the past decade.
Researchers to examine health benefits of olives
The center has been established with a combined $75,000 in seed funding from the campus's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Office of Research, while olive growers and pressers Corto Olive, the Musco Family Olive Co., Bell-Carter Foods, the California Olive Oil Council and the California Olive Ranch have contributed $25,000."The university had the privilege of helping move California wines into the world's highest rankings [through its research into the health benefits of moderate wine consumption]," said Dan Flynn, executive director of the new center. "Now we look forward to harnessing UC Davis' research expertise to help vault California olives and olive oil into that same league."Neal Van Alfen, dean of UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences added that the new initiative would "lead to advances in olive growing and processing" and to "a better understanding of the link between olive products and consumer health".California is the only state in the US that produces a commercially significant crop of olives: approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the ripe olives consumed in the United States come from California.
M&R: Olympic torch's S.F. route up in air
The Olympic torch debate just keeps getting hotter - but then, its route through San Francisco may be getting shorter. The April 9 traversing of the torch through the city is proving to be a magnet for all sorts of anti-China protesters, backing the causes of Tibet, the Sudanese region of Darfur and even Burmese monks. We're told the Chinese government is so spooked by what might happen that there's talk of shortening the torch's San Francisco course. That course is still a bit of a mystery, as city officials claim it hasn't been set in stone. We do know the route is supposed to be a smidge over 8 miles in length, but now the Chinese have asked that it be cut to more like 6 miles. There was even talk of scratching the run altogether and replacing it with a ceremony at Civic Center.
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