Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor Blog
SpringerImages, a collection of scientific images, covers disciplines as diverse as computer science, medicine and geology. Over 1.5 million photos, graphs, histograms, and figures are available to libraries and their patrons and can be used for non-commercial purposes. 29,000 of the images are currently accessible to those without a subscription to the databases.
ScreenToaster is a great, free online tool. A web-based recorder, it captures screen activity in real-time so you can quickly and easily create tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.
Robin Hood Gardens, Courtesy of Steve Cadam
Is Robin Hood Gardens, the public housing complex in East London designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, an architectural masterpiece worthy of preservation in the face of redevelopment?
Since 2008 Building Design magazine and the Twentieth Century Society have campaigned to list Robin Hood Gardens as a national landmark. However English Heritage recently denied the request, claiming that the complex was not influential, had failed to create housing “on human terms”, and that the the vast majority of residents support its demolition. However preservation advocates argue that the housing complex is a pivotal example of the “streets in the sky” movement.
View a video produced by the Guardian UK to learn more about why the building is both loved and hated by residents and critics.
View an audio slide show from the Twentieth Century Society, documenting its campaign to refurbish and prevent demolition of Robin Hood Gardens.
By checking a box or two in the “Usage Rights” section of Google’s advanced image search page, you can now filter images to find only files tagged with a license that allows re-use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Read more in the Creative Pro article “Safely Find and Use Images Via Google”
The Austin-based Clean Tech Training Center offers workshops in solar installation, as well as educational opportunities to learn more about renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, and smart grid ). Clean Tech Training Center even offers a course, Photovoltaic Essentials, through UT Austin’s Informal Classes.
ARTstor and ART on FILE have collaborated on a campaign to create new content and to document images of the contemporary built environment, landscape architecture and urban design in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. The photographic campaign concluded in June and many images are already available online.
Read more here.
From the Google SketchUp blog
The Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp have teamed up to launch the Design It: Shelter Competition.
As entrants submit their shelter designs, they are available to view on the competition web site.
The competition closes on August 23, at which point students from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture will select ten finalists for the People’s Prize. The public will be invited to vote online for their favorite finalist September 7-October 10. A panel of distinguished architecture and design professionals will also select a winner for the Juried Prize. The winners of the two prizes will be announced on October 21, the anniversary of opening day at the Guggenheim Museum.
Artist Liz Glynn, far left. Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
Beginning at midnight on September 26, 2009, Arthouse at the Jones Center will present Liz Glynn’s 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project. Glynn will organize collaborators and volunteers for this live performance where a model of Rome is built by recreating the city in historical order, and subsequently destroyed.
Read more about this project on the blog Seeing Things.
View a slide show about the project on The New York Times site.
Digital image files not only store information that translates binary code into colors and shapes, they also contain metadata - data about data. Image metadata often includes technical information like ISO speed or file type, description of the photo’s contents, and licensing information. Metadata protects copyright, streamlines your work flow and helps you find the images you need – and then find them again.
The Photo Metadata Project, created by SAA (Stock Artists Alliances) and the Library of Congress, seeks to address “challenges we face in protecting identifying, and managing or digital photos” and provides resource lists, tutorials on how to embed metadata directly into your image files
This May Avery Library held its fifth annual Recent Acquisitions Event, which highlighted important and rare additions (books, drawings, photographs and ephemera) to the library and university art collection. The podcast includes images of recent acquisitions and descriptions from library staff.
You can view the podcast here. Or subscribe to Columbia University Library’s Podcast through iTunes
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