New! We’ve added a link on the left under VRC Info for Galleries. Right now there is a gallery of P. H. Elwood Lantern Slides and a (growing) gallery of contemporary Iowa architecture images from the AIA Iowa Awards program. The galleries are viewable with a free web browser plugin called Cooliris (formerly PicLens). Click on the AIA Iowa gallery and you will see this:
You can view the images on the Cooliris “Wall” on the VRC homepage, clicking on images to get a larger view, scrolling through the gallery, and searching for images with keywords.
Or, you can click on the Launch Cooliris button on the tool bar, far right, and see the same gallery on the big screen:
The New York Times online today has a feature and slide show on the art on loan to the Obama White House. The eclectic selection of art on loan from the National Gallery of Art includes works by George Catlin, Richard Diebenkorn, and Alma Thomas (below).
You can read all about the art and the selection process here and view the slide show here.
The largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found in the UK was discovered by a citizen who was metal detecting last July.
The Staffordshire hoard contains about 5kg of gold and 2.5kg of silver, making it far bigger than the Sutton Hoo discovery in 1939 when 1.5kg of Anglo-Saxon gold was found near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Leslie Webster, former keeper at the British Museum’s Department of Prehistory and Europe, said: “This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
“(It is) absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells.”
A gallery of these stunning newly found metal pieces can be found on Flickr and a BBC News account (with videos) can be seen here.
Here’s a YouTube review of the controversial Jeff Koons show at the Palace of Versailles.
This show opened in 2008, so this blog post is bit after the fact… Neverthleless, this is a fun diversion for a Friday. The New York Times published a slide show of the exhibit last year, and you may find that here.
The complete set of Mesa Verde National Park lantern slides is now scanned, edited and available for viewing on Flickr. This will be just one park we will do from the many that are residing in the VRC lantern slide collection. The next park, which is in process and some of which are already on Flickr, will be Mount Rainier National Park.
In addition, all of these lantern slides are cataloged and available on Plato’s Cave for research and download for presentations.
Our coolness factor increased by several notches when this inflated structure appeared in the COD atrium last week. It remained a mystery for a couple of days until I did some snooping and found out that it is actually a demonstration area for a rendering plugin that allows for 360 degree 3D display (with glasses). It appears that it will remain up for a few more days.
We knew it was coming, here it is, and even Paul Simon can’t bring it back. Kodak is retiring it’s oldest color film stock, Kodachrome, after almost three-quarters of a century. Here is the link to the story.
FYI – only Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas still processes Kodachrome, but only until through 2010.
Now available on Plato’s Cave – our collection of Egyptian material culture images – all 776 of them – have been rescanned and resized for your PowerPoint presentations. Or just for browsing.
To find these images on Plato’s Cave, go to the Advanced Search. Using the pull down menus, choose Collection, Equal to, Anc. Add a line with And. Then choose Country, Equal to, Egypt (Ancient). Add a line with And. Then choose Medium, Not Equal to, architecture.
Here’s a screen shot of what your search will look like:
This search gets you everything in our Ancient Egyptian collection, except the architecture (pyramids, temples, tombs).
