Viz Think

Tom Crawford is putting together an awesome conference that will take place out here at the end of January on visual thinking. It’s called VizThink. Take a look. Wouldn’t it be cool to improve how you think?

Our conversation got me thinking about the impact graphics can have. I took a sample of images I’ve posted on my blog over the years and assembled them into a video slide show. I’m doing oddball projects like this to learn my away around my new Mac. I thought I’d assembled a slick six minute animated slide show with sound. Then I discovered YouTube won’t accept Flash. I output the show in QuickTime; the quality disappeared! MP4: murky. Finally I settled on a 15 MB mov file. I uploaded that to YouTube and the sound disappeared, and the pictures turned fuzzy. So I’m posting a .mov file on my own server.

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The background music is by Larisa Migachyov and Colin Mutchler, both under the protection of a Creative Commons License.

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Larisa Migachyov’s Ragtime Recordings
The rags on this album are a motley collection – some are fairly well-known classics of the genre, like Scott Joplin’s "Weeping Willow", Joseph Lamb’s "Top Liner Rag", or James Scott’s "Frog Legs". Two are a little more obscure – Eubie Blake’s "Chevy Chase" and Scott Joplin’s "Heliotrope Bouquet". One is virtually unknown – Charlotte Blake’s "Gravel Rag" (a delightful piece that really ought to be played more). And then, the remaining four are original compositions by Larisa Migachyov – compositions that so duplicate the style and "feel" of the ragtime era that it is hard to believe that they were written in 2006 rather than 1906.

Larisa Migachyov


Larisa Migachyov


Larisa Migachyov


Larisa Migachyov (for the original compositions) or public domain (for the other recordings)


Larisa Migachyov

2006-08-15
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