Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, by Sharon Waxman. About the wonders of antiquity, from Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy, that are sitting in the Met, the Louvre and the British Museum.
Not as much about the ins and outs of the museums themselves, but interesting.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Yet another museum book
Friday, December 19, 2008
Another museum book
I'm not a reader exclusively of museum books or anything, but as it happens, one book on a topic is followed by another book on the topic.
This one about the Met in New York, by Danny Danziger, who appears to be a Guggenheim. The book is called "Museum" and it's quite interesting, it's about the people who work there.
A snippet: "It is the Metropolitan's boast that every culture from every part of the world is represented here, from Florence to Thebes to Papua, New Guinea, from the earliest times to the present, and in every medium."
Monday, December 8, 2008
Personal informatics
For the truly compulsive, from an article in The Wall Street Journal, there's a new trend involving keeping tabs of every little thing we do. "Everyone creates data--every smile, conversation and car ride is a potential datapoint. These quotidian aggragators believe that the compilation of our daily activities can reveal the secret patterns that govern the way we live."
I am kind of compulsive, but this is not for me. Sounds very stressful frankly!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Collections
"All our lives are collections curated through memory."
From Dry Storeroom No. 1, The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, by Richard Fortey. The museum is sort of the ultimate found museum.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Beach detritus
Wow. That's all I can say--Wow. From hellejorgensen.typepad.com. See her more detailed pictures by type of detritus.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Statue of Liberty
The picture was made with soldiers posing to create the shape of the statue, from the Iowa National Guard and then reprised in other sites.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Decisions!
I happened to chance on this, it seems to be an inventory or someone's house, maybe someone who died, called Decisions!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Found
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A Photo A Day
I love this blog I stumbled across, A Photo A Day--a great concept, beautiful photos, and funny too.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Orange paper wrappers
This is an amazing site with a collection of orange paper, the paper that some oranges are wrapped in. From orangepaper
One of the reasons this is amazing to me is that I used to have such a collection myself, on a much much more modest scale. I need to see if I still have it somewhere.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Historic Albany Foundation's Architectural Parts Warehouse
I thought this was very cool, at Historic Albany Foundation