I thought this was nicely done.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Discovery!
Apparently, there's a Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law & Arbitration. I'm sorry if everyone knew this already. I was amused because I thought everything was made up. Oh well.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Ugh.
Alright, Blogger, I've had enough of you.
I'm sort of disappointed that I couldn't upload all the images that create that scene, but hopefully you can get the idea from the two that happened to make it up (I recommend zooming in). The images alternate from watercolour images to images crudely sketched in pen. The "story", if you can call it one, is basic: it's a city in the morning when it's dwellers are waking up. The watercolour images depict the richer part of town, the doctor sleeping in his bed, and getting ready in his bathroom. The sketched portions show an alleyway, and the poor waking up from off of benches. The watercolour/sketch medium comes back several times through the novel, but I think this is one of the few times it has no words. I found it to be very effective in conveying the surface action (i.e. the town waking up; it comes across kind of like an opening scene in a movie), as well as the underlying theme of the wealth gap and the situation of the poor that is prevalent through the book. (This comic is about Jack the Ripper. It's by the same guy that did Watchmen. I highly recommend it!)
There are six pages of this scene, but I could only upload two for some strange reason (and they're not even consecutive). Sorry if you don't get the full effect.
I'm sort of disappointed that I couldn't upload all the images that create that scene, but hopefully you can get the idea from the two that happened to make it up (I recommend zooming in). The images alternate from watercolour images to images crudely sketched in pen. The "story", if you can call it one, is basic: it's a city in the morning when it's dwellers are waking up. The watercolour images depict the richer part of town, the doctor sleeping in his bed, and getting ready in his bathroom. The sketched portions show an alleyway, and the poor waking up from off of benches. The watercolour/sketch medium comes back several times through the novel, but I think this is one of the few times it has no words. I found it to be very effective in conveying the surface action (i.e. the town waking up; it comes across kind of like an opening scene in a movie), as well as the underlying theme of the wealth gap and the situation of the poor that is prevalent through the book. (This comic is about Jack the Ripper. It's by the same guy that did Watchmen. I highly recommend it!)
There are six pages of this scene, but I could only upload two for some strange reason (and they're not even consecutive). Sorry if you don't get the full effect.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Sigh.
Anybody know how to upload scanned images? Blogger is flipping out a bit on me. I'm sure "Bad Request. Error 400." means something, but not to me.
And now the fun part.
When we were first given this assignment, my mind went straight to Calvin & Hobbes. I quickly realised that the images weren't perfect for figuring out a story narrative, but I'm going to show you two anyway.
and
While neither of them necessarily tell a story, they suggest a lot within their frames. The first one embodies happiness, with a stark juxtaposition against Calvin's parents obvious distress. The second combines my two favourite themes in Calvin and Hobbes comics: snow men and Calvin's imagination/dinosaurs. Like I said, not much of a story. But again, the juxtaposition (of innocent childhood snowman-building and evil T-rex-destroying-city) is what makes Bill Watterson so entertaining, if not as much of a story teller.
I ended up finding some images from the graphic novel "From Hell" that I thought were very effective. I'd like to discuss them as well, but Blogger won't let me upload them in this post, so... NEW POST.
and
While neither of them necessarily tell a story, they suggest a lot within their frames. The first one embodies happiness, with a stark juxtaposition against Calvin's parents obvious distress. The second combines my two favourite themes in Calvin and Hobbes comics: snow men and Calvin's imagination/dinosaurs. Like I said, not much of a story. But again, the juxtaposition (of innocent childhood snowman-building and evil T-rex-destroying-city) is what makes Bill Watterson so entertaining, if not as much of a story teller.
I ended up finding some images from the graphic novel "From Hell" that I thought were very effective. I'd like to discuss them as well, but Blogger won't let me upload them in this post, so... NEW POST.
Strong musings.
Here are my disjointed takeaways from Strong's article:
I found the Strong article rather useful in guiding the research we were asked to do for our team oral arguments. I agree that there is barely any instruction on research skills for international arbitration. I would even say that international research is generally not something commonly taught (or I missed out on it somewhere); finding sources for my international law journal work is a lot more difficult for me than finding cases etc. within the United States. I thought it interesting that Strong pointed out the sort of Catch-22 of experience in international arbitration: novices don't know where to look for information, but the places that could tell them where to look for it can't be found if they don't know where to look. While the lends to the secrecy (and mystique!) of this practice as a whole, I suspect it leads to much frustration for new lawyers trying to break into the field. Worse, it might mean that the less experienced will be less able to represent their client. While this is true in most situations, I feel that I was able to find good authority relatively quickly for my first brief, while finding minimal support for international cases seems much more tedious. Finally, I'd wondered what the hierarchy of controlling law was, and I'm glad that she laid it out. To keep in mind:
• International conventions and treaties;
• National laws;
• Arbitral rules;
• Law of the dispute (procedural orders and agreements between the parties);
• Arbitral awards;
• Case law; and
• Scholarly work (treatises, monographs and articles).
I found the Strong article rather useful in guiding the research we were asked to do for our team oral arguments. I agree that there is barely any instruction on research skills for international arbitration. I would even say that international research is generally not something commonly taught (or I missed out on it somewhere); finding sources for my international law journal work is a lot more difficult for me than finding cases etc. within the United States. I thought it interesting that Strong pointed out the sort of Catch-22 of experience in international arbitration: novices don't know where to look for information, but the places that could tell them where to look for it can't be found if they don't know where to look. While the lends to the secrecy (and mystique!) of this practice as a whole, I suspect it leads to much frustration for new lawyers trying to break into the field. Worse, it might mean that the less experienced will be less able to represent their client. While this is true in most situations, I feel that I was able to find good authority relatively quickly for my first brief, while finding minimal support for international cases seems much more tedious. Finally, I'd wondered what the hierarchy of controlling law was, and I'm glad that she laid it out. To keep in mind:
• International conventions and treaties;
• National laws;
• Arbitral rules;
• Law of the dispute (procedural orders and agreements between the parties);
• Arbitral awards;
• Case law; and
• Scholarly work (treatises, monographs and articles).
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