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ImageBase from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The ImageBase is an image and text database of over 110,000 objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
UTSOA VRC Delicious Account
NY Times Arts- Dwell
- ARTstor Blog
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Art Institute of Chicago Digital Collections
Texas Centennial Exposition, Livestock Building , Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Chicago Art Institute Digital Library’s Historic Landscape and Image Collection includes a vast array of resources documenting the built environment. Lantern slides, postcards and photographs record architecture both in America and abroad. Search and browse by architect, or locate sculptors, surveyors, masons, renders, and building owners. Even explore building types and styles. The collection also includes material relating to Expositions and World’s Fairs (including the Texas Centennial Exhibition), as well as urban planning in Chicago
Government Resources
American White Pelican Colony, Glass Plate Negative, Audubon Society of Portland, 1908, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library
Federal department websites may not be the first place one would turn for digital images. However, many include image, sound, and video files in the public domain. Some sites to check out include:
US Geological Survey Multimedia Gallery
US Department of Agriculture Image Gallery
US Department of Defense Multimedia Gallery
US Fish and Wildlife National Digital Library
Free Photo Union Membership for SOA students
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!
September 11 Resource List
Librarian and blogger Gary Price has compiled a 9/11 resource list that includes text, audio, and video resources from NPR, the Library of Congress, 9/11 Commission Hearings, and more. Additional resources include a media-timeline being collected through the September 11 Memorial & Museum and featuring photographs and videos taken by citizens during and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Help Build, Then Destroy Ancient Rome at Arthouse
The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, 2008, courtesy of Arthouse
Arthouse in collaboration with LA-based artist Liz Glynn are seeking volunteers for her latest installation and particpatory event, The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, or, Building Rome in a Day. Model builders are needed to help recreate the rise and fall of a miniature Rome on September 26. UTSOA faculty member Fran Gale will also give a talk on bricks, mortar, and concrete and co-lead a concrete pouring demo.
School-Wide Open House & iPod Raffle Welcomes New and Returning Students
The first week of school is exciting and sometimes confusing, even for returning students. This year School of Architecture students have a fun opportunity to ease into the fall semester by participating in a school-wide open house and raffle held from August 24th through August 28th.
The open houses will showcase the many nationally recognized resources that students, faculty and staff have at their fingertips–a combination of collections, programs, facilities and expertise that can only be found at The University of Texas at Austin.
During the open house, students will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for an iPod Shuffle. A “passport” card serves as the raffle entry. School of Architecture students can pick up a passport at the Architecture & Planning Library (Battle Hall 200) or the Visual Resources Collection (Sutton 3.128). Students must have their passports stamped at each open house location in order to be eligible for the drawing. Full passports may be dropped off at any location to be entered into the drawing. Entries will be collected through the end of Friday August 28th and the drawing will be held on September 1st. Winners will be notified by email. Two iPod Shuffles have been generously donated by the Campus Computer Store.
Participating locations include:
BATTLE HALL
+ Alexander Architectural Archive (BTL 6) – Open house hours: M-F 9-noon & 1-4p
+ Architecture and Planning Library (BTL 200) – Open house hours: M-Tue 10a-5p; W-Th 9a-10p; F 9a-7p
SUTTON HALL
+ Computer Lab/IO Central (SUT 1.102) – Open house hours: M-Tue 8a-5p; W-F 8a-10p
+ Career Services Center (SUT 2.126) – Open house hours: M-F 8:30a-3:30p
+ Visual Resources Collection (SUT 3.128) – Open house hours: M-F 8a-5p
GOLDSMITH HALL
+ Design Lab (Woodshop) (GOLD 1.100) – Open house hours: M-F 9-noon & 1-6p
WEST MALL OFFICE BUILDING
+ Center for Sustainable Development (WMB 4.122) – Open house hours: Tue 9a-1p; Thur 1:30-5p
+ University Co-op Materials Resource Center, Materials Lab (WMB 3.102) – Open house hours: M-Tue/Th-F 10a-3p
+ University Co-op Materials Resource Center, Conservation Lab (WMB 3.102) – Open house hours: M-Tue/Th-F 10a-3p
This event is sponsored by the School of Architecture, the University of Texas Libraries and the Campus Computer Store.
Images on Wikipedia
Noam Cohen considers the dearth of high quality images on Wikipedia in a New York Times article today.
While Wikipedia’s popularity has been fueled by constantly updated text, visual information, limited to Creative Commons licenses, is often of poor quality. However individuals and institutions have attempted to work around this issue. Wikipedia editors have gone on outings to capture high quality photographs of buildings and objects. Last winter the German Federal Archives provided 100,000 digital copies of images in its collection. Government photos are another source for public domain images. In fact, editors have taken to cropping out individuals, often resulting in awkward photographs.
Read more about digital image copyright issues on Wikipedia here.
UTSOA Professor Christopher Long’s Photography Now Available on ARTstor
ARTstor has partnered with UTSOA Professor Christopher Long to make available his collection of Central European Architecture. 215 slides photographed by Long and housed in the School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection have been digitized and are now available on ARTstor. Christopher Long, Associate Professor for Architectural History, specializes in modern architecture and design in Central and Eastern Europe from 1800 to the present.
Read more here.
NYC Grid, New York One Block at a Time
4th St between Layfatte and Mercer from NYC Grid
The blog NYC Grid documents the city of New York, block by block. Each post focuses on the everyday and ephemeral aspects of a single corner or small segment of a street. The author, Paul Sahner, initially began NYC Grid as a means to explore the city, but now primarily documents the present moment. Not an elegy for a vanishing urban past, the blog “is simply a snapshot: New York as we live in it now.”
Also check out a previous Deep Focus post highlighting a selection from the NYPL Digital Gallery. Conceptual artist Dylan Stone took 26,000 snapshots of Manhattan south of Canal Street for a project entitled Drugstore Photographs or a Trip Along the Yangtzee River from the New York Public Library.