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Ironically enough, such digitally-designed posters are easier to disseminate on paper than online. “Publicizing over Harvard email lists is tough, since there are pixel limits,” said Guo. To get around this, the CSA creates and sends posters through MailChimp, an account that allows users to send smaller posters—as well as headers, footers, fonts and other means of visually organizing information—over email lists...
...event, “Pixel Perfect? (Re)Drawing the Lines of Beauty,” was led by R.J. Jenkins, a tutor in Lowell House and Ph.D. candidate in English, with the intention of sparking a dialogue about the doctoring of images in the media...
...group brainstormed solutions for the prevalence of “pixel perfect” bodies in advertisements, the question arose as to what type of message the images actually conveyed...
...Rosenthal, founder of Power to the Pixel, an organization that devises new models of film distribution, says the reason many indie directors are turning to the web is that it allows them to better engage with their audiences. "The whole film business has no connection with their audience," she says. "And with any business you have to know your consumer. The Internet has become a free distribution machine, so what can you sell that makes money? Things you can't copy. They need to be things that are based around your audience. Directors cuts, merchandise, 35mm prints of your film...
...Hutchins' success, there are critics who downplay the significance of their "pioneering" work. When serving as vice president of the Science Fiction Writers of America two years ago, author Howard Hendrix, in a blog, dubbed these authors "webscabs" who are turning the role of writer into a "pixel-stained Technopeasant wretch." (Hendrix later admitted, in a "debate" with Sigler in Sept. 2007 in San Franciscio, that his comments were "incendiary," but also said, "In the long run, what you may end up with is a vast digital slush pile" and "a mass of novels written by 15-year-olds.") Even...