March 2011
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Major Polaroid Collection to Be Kept Intact →
“A nonprofit photo gallery in Vienna and a group of analog photography entrepreneurs announced Monday that they had acquired a collection of several thousand Polaroid prints by well-known artists that were in danger of being auctioned off piecemeal as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of the Polaroid company.”
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Smithsonian Releases Report on Visitor Reaction To... →
From Tyler Green’s MAN: “A visitor study of the National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” conducted by the Smithsonian’s own Office of Policy and Analysis and published yesterday found strong visitor approval for and appreciation of the show. The report indicates that visitors formed strong intellectual and emotional ...
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A Digital Library Better Than Google →
Why should a common cultural heritage be managed by a corporation; Google’s settlement with authors and publishers tossed out by a U.S. judge. Not that a digital library is a bad idea, how about continuing Andrew Carnegie’s dream of free access to ideas, free digital copies of all books from a virtual library. Robert Darnton, professor and the director of the Harvard University Library...
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Jeff Koons Must Die!!! (Video Game) →
Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is a self contained arcade game fabricated by Hunter Jonakin to resemble the famed devices of the 1980’s that presents a digital gaming environment. Enthusiasts drop twenty-five cents to play the first person ‘shooter style’ video game where they can virtually destroy the art work of the artist Jeff Koons. (vimeo video here).
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More on Overexposing Photos →
More on Overexposing Photos. Last week, New York Time Technology columnist David Pogue shared a few tips he learned from his private photography session with a pro. Overexposing your shots, and fixing them later in Photoshop if necessary, was one of the bigger tips which drew a vocal response from photographer and readers alike, here he brings back the professional in question who elaborates on...
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The 10 Best Places To See ‘Sexy’ Data Online →
Data visualisation and analysis porn.
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Watch Old British Pathé Shorts Online →
British Pathé is one of the oldest media companies in the world. Their roots lie in 1890s Paris where their founder, Charles Pathé, pioneered the development of the moving image. They were established in London in 1902, and by 1910 were producing their famous bi-weekly newsreel the Pathé Gazette. By the time Pathé finally stopped producing the cinema newsreel in 1970 they had accumulated 3500...
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Copyrights and Copy Wrongs: Learning from the... →
“Patrick Cariou’s victory last Friday in his copyright suit against artist Richard Prince — which determined that Prince’s work did not sufficiently transform or comment on Cariou’s original — signaled another startling development in the troubled and troubling history of fair-use rulings concerning the arts…”
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