Earlier this year the great historian Stanley B. Winters died after a long and distinguished career, that included service in the American Third Army as it swept into Czechoslovakia in the last weeks of World War II, then a long career teaching history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and along the way the [...]
People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and rates don’t give the picture count justice. For the Future of Photography Museum in Amsterdam, Erik Kessels printed 24 hours of Flickr photos: As you might imagine, this results in a lot of images, that fill the gallery space in an avalanche [...]
Makers and Coders McGill (MC²) is one of the new Digital Humanities initiatives that we’ve started this year. It’s a complement to the the Digital Humanities Reading Group, which is best thought of as a book club (or more accurately articl…
On November 14, the Digital Studies Symposium presents Andy Merkin of the Venice-based transmedia studio Mirada. Mirada was founded a year ago by Guillermo del Toro and members of the design firm Motion Theory as a “storytelling engine” and “imaginarium” dedicated to new forms of transmedia storytelling.
It is official now. Today I’m leaving the Powerhouse after a long stint to take up a new role as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. I’ll be starting at the Cooper-Hewitt on November 28 (2011). I’m looking forward to the new challenges and also the [...]
Legend has it that hardly anyone turned up for the opening night of Jean Anouilh’s play La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu. Taking the billboards for the play too literally, Parisian theatregoers thought it had been cancelled. True or not…
In late 2008 I was asked to give a couple of plenaries/big guest lectures the next summer: one for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and one for the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) 40th Anniversary Conference. I was getting a bit bored of standing…
When you choose to go on leave from a University for a year, you make the choice to miss certain things. Meetings about your research. Team meetings about your centre. Grant writing sessions for projects you were previously on. Guest lectures. Proje…
MITH and the Women’s Studies Multimedia Studio is pleased to announce: the first MITH/Digital Humanities “Gender Mixer” on Monday, December 5, 12-1pm in 0135 Taliaferro. A collaboration between MITH and the Women’s Studies Multimedia Studio, this is an opportunity for women and others interested in integrating digital humanities with such . . .
Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviation pioneer, and adventurer. Along with his brother, Albert, he edited the French scientific journal La Nature, which aimed at the popularization of science. Gaston was particularly interested in ballooning, and during the Franco-Prussian War in September 1870, he made a spectacular escape from besieged Paris [...]
Title: Der Tod von Basel : acht Holzschnitte von Rudolf Schiestl zu dem alten Volksliede [LINK]Author: Rudolf Schiestl, 1924Title: Ein moderner Totentanz : dreiundzwanzig Blätter aus dem Bilderbuch des Todes [LINK]Author: Tobias Weiss, 1913Title: La …
As more and more fascinating and creative and surprising applications to our DML Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition flood in (we’re at almost 100 and the competition does not close until the end of today), I am wondering if, a hundred years from …
4Humanities special project: “Humanities, Plain & Simple” (directed by Christine Henseler) » Sample post 4Humanities@UCSB could: Contribute our own Humanities, Plain & Simple statements Recruit statements from strategically p…
Beautiful time-lapse video using photographs from crew onboard the International Space Station. I think this one’s a hair ahead the Very Large Telescope. Watch in HD on Vimeo for extra flavor.
[Video Link via kottke]
For the map nerds. xkcd says what your favorite map projection says about you. Mercator? “You’re not really into maps.”
