Yet another museum book

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.

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."

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!

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.

Found objects from Central Park

From Phizzychick

Beach detritus

Wow. That's all I can say--Wow. From hellejorgensen.typepad.com. See her more detailed pictures by type of detritus.

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.

Generations

Picture from a school trip in Brazil.



Something about this picture is lovely.

Mosaic on the side of a building in New York

How did this ever come about?

Family photos

From Norven and Cheryl Storrs

Cherub

Some beautiful pictures to music

From Solo immagini solitarie

Decisions!

I happened to chance on this, it seems to be an inventory or someone's house, maybe someone who died, called Decisions!

Found

I don't know what this little fellow has been through, I found it walking and I thought it was such a funny little thing.

Computer guts

Aaaaaagh, so gory! From ah-yi

A Photo A Day

I love this blog I stumbled across, A Photo A Day--a great concept, beautiful photos, and funny too.

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.

Springtown garage sale

Garage sale blog, here

Historic Albany Foundation's Architectural Parts Warehouse

I thought this was very cool, at Historic Albany Foundation

The fashionable Melbourne Dog Cafe

From Dogs of Melbourne