The Dallas Museum of Art has begun its digital database redesign for online access to the Museum’s entire collection of more than 22,000 objects. The DMA asserts this ongoing project will create “one of the world’s most sophisticated online art collections” that will offer not only high-resolution images, but “whenever permitted by existing agreements, the…
The Red Dot folk like “Then and Now” photographs, and the Guardian has a regular series we enjoy. They are primarily photos from World Wars I and II, such as these 0f WWI Western Front sites (this is the Vareddes Town Hall in France), but they have also done some pre- and post-hurricane photos,…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHPKf_Hj1GA] This artist, “Vamos”, and his YouTube channel, are a recent discovery. Vamos specializes in drawing and painting illusions, and he films the process in time-lapse. The one linked above showing the creation of anamorphosis using a Rubik’s Cube is especially clever. If you are intrigued and want to see more, visit his YouTube…
We have talked about reverse image searching with TinEye here in the past – here is some recent research that takes the concept further. John Resig collaborated with the Frick Art Reference Library to analyze images lacking identification from their collection. Using software developed off the TinEye model he was able to establish trends, and…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the report on changing research practices in art history, this article in the Wall Street Journal is timely. The president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, James Cuno, is making a strong push for advancing the use of tools such as face recognition, digital mapping, and…
In a post from the Library of Congress’s blog The Signal, Mitch Fraas (Scholar in Residence at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania and Acting Director, Penn Digital Humanities Forum) discusses the use of Viewshare for mapping library book markings. In particular, Frass highlights a project at UPenn that seeks…