The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has devised a way to turn your cell phone or MP3 player into a multimedia gallery guide. If your phone has the capability, you can download audio-only or image-enhanced “artcasts”; this feature is possible on a MP3 player if you search iTunes for “SFMOMA Artcasts.” Also available is…
Europeana.eu allows you to search through dozens of cultural collections of Europe, including national archives, libraries, museums and other research centers. Simple or advanced searches return digitized texts, images, videos and/or sounds. Each item contains information as well as a link to the “original context” — its page within the originating organization. One great feature…
Any thoughts on what Los Angeles could/will look like in 20 years? Newsweek put the question to three architectural firms who came up with 2030 concepts for both LA and New York in a feature called The Future of Work. The three firms that participated were Michael Maltzan Architecture, cityLAB UCLA and Gensler. In other…
They will be coming to a town near you, but in the meantime check out The Mourners Photography Project website, hosted by FRAME (French Regional & American Museum Exchange). The website offers new digital high-resolution, 360° multi-perspective, and stereo 3D (anaglyph glasses required) views of the alabaster sculptures of monks and clerics that surround the…
The ACRL IRIG (Association of College & Research Libraries Image Resources Interest Group) Visual Literacy Standards Task Force is working on Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. To foster discussion about visual literacy, the Task Force has started a blog as a communication tool to provide information about the standards development process and progress…
Photography Now is a website that offers high-quality portfolios of contemporary and “master” photographers. The photographs are displayed via Flash in a page-turning format. The image quality is very good, but there are unfortunately no captions or other information with the images, nor are the images downloadable. Still, it’s a very nice way to peruse…