Category: Artstor

  • New use for old slides, Part III

    If you have roughly 300 slides and a lot of time on your hands, here’s another nifty project. I bet the light would be beautiful coming through the slides.  Think how nice this will look with your slide curtain. Optional: pink slides.

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  • New use for old slides, Part II

    Who wouldn’t want a curtain of slides? This would be a lot of work, but maybe for the retirement years, or summer break, or a project for the kids?  The results sure are beautiful.

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  • Magnum Photos archive moves to Texas

    The Magnum Photos library of more than 180,000 press prints, recently purchased by Michael S. Dell (of Dell Inc.), has moved from New York City to its new home at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. The sale of the archive will help fund to scan the archive digitally and the move to the Ransom…

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  • Cultural analytics at the UCSD CalIT2 “Wall”

    Last week we got a demonstration of The Wall at the CalIT2 center at UC San Diego by Professor Lev Manovich and post-doctoral student Jeremy Douglass.   As stated on their website, they believe that “a systematic use of large-scale computational analysis and interactive visualization of cultural data sets and data streams will become a major…

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