public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag history

03 December 2006

other people's stories

Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.

01 December 2006

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

by 2 others
"Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible." a whacky collection

Media Art Net | Sitemap

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty

"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

by 1 other
narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

Flickhead

online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

artists and art...the-artists.org

by 1 other
extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists

Gene Pool

by 2 others
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

30 November 2006

Boston Review

by 1 other
left political and literary review, good writing

28 November 2006

James Elkins - Syllabi

many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi

A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey

some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System

27 November 2006

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc

by 1 other
a very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes

eipcp.net

transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design

Pew Internet: Riding the Waves of "Web 2.0"

10/06 report from one of the major sources of information on Internet use in the United States

Imagining the Internet

by 1 other
popular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids

22 November 2006

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

21 November 2006

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

20 November 2006

Visual Culture and the Contemporary City

extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.