Month: June 2011

  • (via The Emerging Epicenters of High Tech Industry | Magazine | Wired.com)

  • petervidani: “The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. I(t) hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can…

  • laughingsquid: Lady Gaga Joins Tumblr

  • Rocker

    carlmhbarenbrug: London design studio Doshi Levien has created the Rocker for Richard Lampert – a minimalistic household object, which is essentially an improvised rocking horse, intentionally shying away from a figurative form in order to capture the imagination of children.

  • new series in Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate)

    Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate) Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at King’s College London. Lorna Hughes is University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales. Andrew Prescott is Chair of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London, UK. Harold Short is Professor of Humanities Computing,…

  • nattieangel: Hes special in his own way

  • The emergence of a new object of study or creation should always be seen as an opportunity to change the way that all academic disciplines — and the institution itself — work. When a new discipline emerges, universities should experiment with mechanisms that allow this new discipline to produce art, scholarship, archives, and teaching in…

  • karoreis: que paper toy mais cute *_*

  • prettysmall: Toy Art – Hindu

  • Could we engage ‘Digital Humanities’, with its separate IT staff who will deal with the technical details for clueless arts and humanities scholars? The concept of Digital Humanities might be useful for retiring linguists but is deadly for the media studies environment. The humanities itself should try to overcome its distance from computer science and…