The Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) PhD program in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California will be holding their annual showcase event, iMappening 2012, on May 9th and 10th. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, May 9th from 6-9pm.
Numerical descriptions of film style are valuable but it is often simpler and more informative to use graphical representations of shot length data to aid us in analysing film style. Following on from earlier posts on using kernel densities (here) and cumulative distribution functions (here) this post rounds out this short series by looking at [...]
The series of infographics titled “The Iranian Internet” [this-is-maral.com] by master student Maral Pourkazemi combines an aesthetic sense of (greyscale) infographics with the serious topic of international politics.
Maral designed six different co…
The series of infographics titled “The Iranian Internet” [this-is-maral.com] by master student Maral Pourkazemi combines an aesthetic sense of (greyscale) infographics with the serious topic of international politics.
Maral designed six different co…
Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a gigabyte compressed, is available to download as …
Stylised 17th century floriated letterforms &grotesque mask sprinkles
Baroque absurdities or genius ornamental typeforms? Take your pick.
The prints above and below were designed in the mid-1600s by the Po…
Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. As always, the conference was a party mix of inspiring and dull, familiar and new. It’s one of the rare settings in which you can see glimpses of the past and the…
Archival Sound Recordings was one of the first projects to be funded under the JISC Digitisation Programme. The British Library released its initial batch of recordings online in 2007, and has continued to add new (and old !) recordings to this fascinating resource. There are now some 50,000 recordings available, including oral histories, classical music, [...]
This aquatint of Windsor Castle, in the English county of Berkshire, was created by Charles Wild and engraved by Thomas Sutherland in 1819 for an illustrated history of royal residences by W.H. Pyne. It shows the nineteenth-century upper wards of of the palace, flanking the older, medieval round tower of the original Normal castle. After its renovations [...]
I think if I could name one of the most frustrating aspects about being a ‘digital humanists’ it is confronting the popular notion that a computer is a thing. Many people, (including some of the nations most talented researchers), believe that a computer is just a thing. And by extension, the thing just ‘does its [...]
Yes, I have a suit. On 8 May at the National Library of Australia I gave my suit an outing as I delivered my Harold White Fellowship presentation. Thanks to everyone who came along. If you missed it or want to relive the fun, the NLA has made a podcast available. My slides are also [...]
Gay rights vary across states and by region. The Guardian US interactive team does their research and shows this variance, …
The newly formed Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) held its inaugural conference ‘Digital Humanities Australasia: Building, Mapping, Connecting’ in Canberra, 26-30 March, 2012. The event was the first major conference of its type in Australia; bringing together some of the leading figures in the digital humanities internationally as well as showcasing some of the [...]
