Archive for the 'representation' Category
"The...collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states....2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history."
Only slightly more frivolous. Favorites include: Tastycrats, Party of Girls, Anal Compulsive Party, National Bocialist Party.
Just got back from the excellent Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. This is an .svg file of a Fuller projection.
If this thing does birth a small black hole and swallow up the earth, it might just have been worth it just for these pictures.
Full-resolution photo taken by the Hubble of a teeny-tiny segment of the sky, which is also of course huge beyond imagining. 11.3 days of exposure, et voila. Just over 100mb of space.
Wow. I might have to go see this to get a real take on it, because after reading this short review, I'm very conflicted about it.
This is *unreal.* I did a whois, but the registration was private. Site is hosted on dreamhost, though. Also, please note that the email address on the page isn't a direct link, which is an effort to keep spam away. Unreal.
Davis destroyed 10 banned records and then recorded them playing back. If the photographs correspond to the music playing, its hard to see how some of them still play as recognizably as they do, and for so long. The magic of technology!
"Eight versions of the Mona Lisa make a puzzle for the art lover." Also includes anecdotes about Roman reproductions of Greek originals, Renaissance repaintings and many trenchant captions. I wonder what the next century's forgery market will look like?
Thank GOD. FINALLY. UbuWeb now hosts three of Baldessari's video pieces, including this hilarious exercise in context and imagination. PLEASE, PLEASE, keep these coming.
Complete, browsable, searchable, online version of Birds of America.
Detailed breakdown of what each frequency is being used for.
Short essay with accompanying photographs by Edward Curtis of Native Americans made up and costumed to look like Native Americans.
"The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered."
Ok, a) eye diseases, with color plates, cool. But maybe more importantly, b) this is the first Google book I've found where there are scans of fingers holding the pages down. And frequently. Very charming.
Critique of various ULTIMATE Tuesday infographics. Interestingly doesn't discuss much of the content of the data being presented by different news outlets. eg, NYTimes is very conservative with their delegate count, but CNN is, well, profligate.
This is sort of hilarious. I can't tell if it's because everyone is in the middle of saying something, or the fact that Robert Bork got such a huge amount of space.
Nice interactive timeline of the history of the major browsers.
Our President's interpretation of the subject of this painting is somewhat at odds with it's historically verifiable context, in a humorously apt way. But this account begs the question (again): what is the place of the viewer in interpretation?
