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Archive for February, 2009
Charles Lindsay, “The River”
A photo-essay by Charles Lindsay, The River. Part of the superbly-designed Big Sky Journal (journal of arts and culture in the American west) website.
The curse of the special ‘arts issue’
20 Feb 2009 at 10:58
David Haden
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Daniel Seidell on the curse of the special ‘arts issue’.
Flatpack unpacked
Flatpack Festival 09 — the details/programme now seems to be fully online.
My short guide to academic search
Latest version is here.
Photoresearcher
Photoresearcher, a free full-text ejournal in the history of photography. Oddly, the web page is in German, but the PDFs issues are in English. Free archives from 1990 – 2007.
ArtNodes: locative media and artistic practice
17 Feb 2009 at 08:29
David Haden
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The latest issue of ArtNodes, a free ejournal, is themed as “locative media and artistic practice”. Having erased geography with the web, it seems that with the mobile we’re bringing it back into focus.
Ship-Shop
Back in April 08 I outlined an idea for a ‘container shop’ system, for adding spice to moribund retail in cities. Now Australia’s Nest Architects have just had a go at developing a basic prototype, which they’ve titled the Gorman Ship-Shop. Puma also has an entire shippable store, called the CoutureSteez.
Inspiration Bank
Inspiration Bank — a newly expanded website, making art collections from around the West Midlands searchable and ‘zoomable’.
The Map Reader
More proof that it’s still possible to make an award-winning feature-length movie for micro amounts of funding — in this case at the cost of $150,000 NZ (about £55,000 UK). The trailer…
Thomas E. Gardiner
Thomas E. Gardiner — a photographer who seems to be continuing the approach to human landscapes pioneered by Raymond Moore, but in colour, and used to express a Nabakovian vision of small-town North America… [ Hat-tip: Rumblings… ]
Extreme knitting
Birmingham’s extreme-knitting meet-up has just announced a string of meeting dates in 2009. Mama feel good blog has the info and link to the list of dates.
Information visualisation through paper-shaping
13 Feb 2009 at 12:07
David Haden
Artist(s), Cool sites, Mapping
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Information visualisation through paper-shaping… the winners… [ Hat-tip: dp ]
Photocartographies
Are you an artist or photographer combining mapping/maps and photographs? The forthcoming exhibition Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map now has an open call for entries. Deadline: 31st March 09, and the exhibition opens in California on 16th May 09.
Tea snorts
“Brummie Mis-Hearings” T-Shirts (or should that be “tea snorts”?), now on sale at iBostin.
Into Oblivion
Good news. It seems Stoke-on-Trent are advertising for a new Chief Executive who plays role-playing fantasy videogames. Oblivion, specifically… “The good news is… we’re 20 minutes from Oblivion”. I guess an ability to immerse oneself in gory fantasy-worlds will provide a certain advantage when dealing with the public-sector in this city. Although on second-thoughts, I […]
NUJ demo
The NUJ are organising a “mass demonstration” of photographers outside Scotland Yard, on 16th Feb 09, to remind the police that photographers still have the legal right to take pictures in public places. There’s also a Facebook group for more info.
Mofuse RSS for D’log
D’log now has a mobile devices RSS feed, and automatic redirect for mobile visitors, courtesy of the Mofuse WordPress plugin. Preview in iPhone interface…
Heavy Metal Band Names
10 Feb 2009 at 07:34
David Haden
Birmingham, Cool sites, Entertainment, Mapping, Teaching
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Very suitable for Birmingham & The Black Country, the birthplace of metal. An elegant Heavy Metal Band Name Flow-Chart made by Doogie Horner… Talking of which, a new promo for the Capsule “Home of Metal” cultural history project…
Catfood semiotics
10 Feb 2009 at 07:21
David Haden
Cool sites, Photographers, Zeitgeist
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BINS gives me a “wish I’d thought of that” moment. He made a visual survey of cats on cat-food packaging.