Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor Blog
Rhizome is an online community and publication “dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.” The site includes contemporary examples of works investigating the intersection of art, technology and culture, with an archive dating back to the early 1990s.
Last Sunday, The New York Times featured a rather architectural crossword to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Puzzle designer, Elizabeth Gorski developed the puzzle entitled “Ahead of the Curve” around Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for the building, incorporating themes relating to the museum, its purpose and its Golden Jubilee within an irregular spiral situated onto the grid (organized according to the parameters established to define Wright’s building).
Visit the Guggenheim website for more information about the 50th Anniversary and exhibits and events associated with its celebration. For more information about solving the puzzle read the Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle blog.
Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
Death by Architecture assembles current information about a broad spectrum of architectural competitions in addition to hosting an extensive resource list linking to blogs and other sites featuring information about design, materials, and construction.
Nonprofit media organization Worldchanging asks “What does it mean to build bright green structures for the 21st Century?” This online writer/journalist collective focuses on chronicling and questioning architectural, community planning, political, and corporate methods of affecting environmental and social change across the globe.
The SOA Photo Union will be open to students for free during the fall 2009 semester (there are a few spots still open). In order to use the facilities students (undergraduate and graduate) have to sign up at the Visual Resources Collection (SUT 3.128) or send an e-mail to the address below.
We are officially reopening the (Black and White Print) Photo Lab (SUT 1.104) in October. In the following weeks, more information will be sent out concerning workshops, group printings, and competitions we are planning. Please contact the new Photography TA at tahinee@gmail.com for more information or to sign up. We have also published a new Facebook Page, please become a fan by searching: “University of Texas School of Architecture Photo Union”
We hope you can join us!
Columbia University Libraries and Information Services has created the Copyright Advisory Office to address the relationship between copyright law and the research, teaching, and service activities of post-secondary education. The Office provides and will continue to provide access to copyright information as it evolves in response to increasingly complex methods of distributing information in order to help faculty members, librarians, administrators, students, and others learn and apply copyright principles of importance to their work. Currently, the Copyright Advisory Office hosts a number of pages that include a Copyright Quick Guide and examine issues such as fair use, appropriate use, licensing and more. Additional resources include a blog by Director Kenneth Crew exploring the appropriate application of copyright in real world scenarios.
AlternativeTo is a user-rated database of free substitutes for expensive software. Search for a program, like Adobe Photoshop, and choose between dozens of different options.
Image Spark is a free web service that creates customized image libraries. Not solely for collecting and describing the visual and digital, Image Spark allows you to personalize your display and share it with other users.
FFFFOUND! is a web service that allows you to bookmark images, and showcase and create a compelling visual archive. The home page also dynamically recommends new and interesting sites, posted by other users.
DocMorph is a free conversion tools that can convert more than 50 different types of files into different formats. With the online version, a user can convert individual files into PDF, TIFF, or text. MyMorph software, which you can download to your desktop, also allows one to migrate many files simultaneously.
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