MN winter magic on the window ❄️
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Julia Strand
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Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton College. Enthusiastic about Open Science, measurement, spoken word recognition, audiovisual integration, and undergraduate education. Book carver. She/her
In the movie Alien, designer Ron Cobb made a set of icons for the spaceship Nostromo called “Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft.”
They’re information dense, intuitive, and lovely. I cross-stitched “coffee” and “computer terminal”!
Trailer for my team-taught course on 🎨 color 🎨 at Carleton College!
A knight’s tour is a sequence of moves on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. I did two variations of it in cross-stitch! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour
❄️ Oh boy oh boy oh boy!! Careful of your backs when shoveling, Minnesotans! ❄️
My latest cross-stitch, inspired by the cover art of “Kind of Bloop”— @andybaio ‘s 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” If you’re not familiar, it’s a fascinating story of digital music, fair use, and copyright law! Full story here: https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org
TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing […]
Materials for my class on #SensationAndPerception are available here: https://tinyurl.com/SandP-Strand
Sensation & Perception
INTRODUCTION This page contains links to teaching materials associated with Sensation & Perception at Carleton College. Materials are free for reuse, attribution appreciated. Feel free to reach out if you have questions, comments, or suggestions! If you find the materials useful, I’d love to hear...