Category: blogs & websites

  • PowerPoint presentations: PC to Mac and Back

    If you work between Macs and PCs when creating or viewing PowerPoint presentations, here is a useful link that explains the difference between PowerPoint versions and what you need to keep in mind when you move from one platform to another. This page contains other useful links that help you troubleshoot PowerPoint problems.

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  • How well do you see color?

    Curious to know just how well you’re able to distinguish colors? Test your color acuity with this online color challenge, an abridged version of the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test. Offered by X-Rite, a company that specializes in color science and technology, the test “is used to separate persons with normal color vision into classes…

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  • Berlin’s Free University launches “Degenerate Art” database

    The “Degenerate Art” Research Center, Art History Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin now hosts a database that documents the fate of over 21,000 works of art deemed “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) and confiscated by the Nazis in 1937. The database is searchable by artist, title, object type, current repository and specific Nazi-era exhibitions. Many…

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  • Art History and the movies

    Several websites have compiled lists of films on art, or that feature art historical figures or themes.  Here are just a few: The Ultimate Art History Guide to Cinema Art Historians’ Guide to the Movies Art History in the Movies Dr. Cheney’s Art History Films (includes links to video clips) A libris’ list of art…

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  • Bill Viola + USC Game Innovation Lab = The Night Journey

    Video artist Bill Viola has teamed up with the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media Division‘s Game Innovation Lab) to create an experimental video “game,” but not one with high-speed chases nor increasingly effective weaponry. The Night Journey “[is] a game that rewards you for slowing down and for introspection,” said Viola, who has…

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  • New Sistine Chapel QTVR, courtesy of Villanova

    For the last two years, students and faculty from Villanova University have had rare clearance to photograph a new state-of-the-art Virtual Reality Tour of the Sistine Chapel. The “tour”, a beautiful QTVR panorama with a classical music accompaniment, is on the Vatican website.

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