The Red Dot is an informational and ongoing list about visual and material news and resources, aimed at the University of California, Santa Barbara community, but open to all.
In case you don’t get the reference, it’s the little red dot in the corners of our legacy 35mm slides that helps you with orientation. And that’s what we’re here for – orientation, information, hot tips, and more. We’ll be posting regularly on Digital Humanities – and specifically Digital Art and Architectural History, new image and data resources, copyright, and events of interest.
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Additions to the VRC image database, part 2
Material that we have added to the image database recently includes: Victorian painting (90 images) Nineteenth and twentieth-century photography (250 images) Moche, Inca and Tiahuanaco (Andean Peru) ceramics, textiles, maps and archaeological material (200 images) Twentieth-century contextual material (news photographs, political documents, etc.) (300 images) If you would like a database account and/or orientation please… Read more
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Pure fun – Panoramas from Paris
This is breathtaking – a 360 degree nighttime view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower in Quicktime. It’s just one of the beautiful panoramas by Eric Rougier – you can see all of them at his website “Panoramas from Paris”, which includes instructions to maximize viewing of these QTVR gems. Rougier is one of the… Read more
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Multi-media teaching site: SmartHistory
Smarthistory is “a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.” It was started in 2005 by Drs. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who found themselves dissatisfied with traditional survey texts. They created a series of audio guides to accompany works at the Metropolitan Museum of… Read more
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Prison Photography blog
Just came across this blog with an unusual focus: Prison Photography (The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration). It contains some striking historic and current photographs, of and about prisons, and interesting commentary and posts. Read more
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SFMOMA’s “Artscope” – new visual browsing tool
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has introduced Artscope, a new way to browse 3,500-plus works from their collection. It employs a magnifying- glass feature that allows you to zoom in on a work from a large mosaic, or grid, of images. Or you can type in or select terms to focus your search. … Read more
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Image collections still available through Luna Insight
Just a reminder that the California Digital Library still supports Luna Insight, the image hosting and search tool that was tested by the UC campuses a few years ago. There are several terrific collections which are not available through ARTstor or other means at this time, for example: The National Palace Museum of Taipei (over… Read more