October 2006
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
re-public: re.imagining democracy
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
WIRED 3.02: "Viruses Are Good for You" by Julian Dibbell
a theory of the benefits of computer viruses
September 2006
lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts
by 5 othersblog includes attractive reproductions of many illustrations
SPF 583 - Visual Ethnography
excellent course outline
WEB RESOURCES FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2001 updated
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
of interest to anyone interested in documentary
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
BLDGBLOG: Container Home Kit
Plan to turn shipping containers into modules for building a home. Interesting blog on space, architecture, and landscape.
World Wikia - World Wikia
by 1 othernew developments in wikis, an open source travel guide that users can edit. Will it rival the megasite, Lonely Planet?
Second Story Interactive Studios
a collection of exemplary multimedia projects, some for exhibitions, some hypertext fiction. Many available. Good models for students learning how to do such projects in terms of design and useability.
Lens On Lebanon
"documentary material, photo narratives, and video diaries of daily life conceived, produced, and contributed by residents of Lebanon"
August 2006
Physics Flash Animations
fascinating mixture of visual art and science
Flickr: Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)
by 1 othermakes image montage available to many, in a social way
July 2006
BBC Cumbria - Digital Lives
important video autobiography project for UK television
Local Projects
designers of the installations for many important storytelling projects, most notably the StoryCorps booth; "an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously."
Women researchers, designers & artists working in pervasive computing-related fields
list of women in new media technology
Home-Maker // Jeanie Finlay
The housebound talk about artefacts collected over a lifetime that represent memories. The panoramic format echoes their enclosed worlds.
www.kimstringfellow.com
artist, photographer, geographer, activist
anecdotal city
interviews with Cardiff residents about memories of life there
Jennifer Mapes
photographer and geographer studying small towns
MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
by 1 otherslide show of people living in 100 square feet, in Hong Kong's oldest housing estate; a good example of ethnographic media on the Internet and suggestive of what similar photographic essays might consist of
