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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.
Tags: crossword puzzle, Elizabeth Gorski, Frank Lloyd Wright, games, Guggenhei, Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum 50th Anniversary, New York Times, The New York Times, The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 25, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, blog, words | No Comments »
Unable to find the right word? the Visual Thesaurus, available through the VRC’s website, can help you explore concepts through their ever expanding word maps. Learn more by watching the video posted on YouTube.
Tags: concept maps, dictionary, UTSOA VRC, video, Visual Thesaurus
Posted by Joan Winter on October 7, 2009 in architecture, image presentation, images, maps, words | No Comments »
Photo by Steve Brosnahan from The Glass House website.
The Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project gathers together the memories of Johnson’s friends and colleagues and has created two video documentaries in order to broaden our understanding of modern design. The first two films produced by the project, include Architecture and Influence, and Frank Stella: Return to the Glass House and are viewable here.
Tags: documentary, Frank Stella, Glass House, modernism, Philip Johnson, video
Posted by Joan Winter on September 25, 2009 in architectural history, art, words | No Comments »
Founded by Kenneth Goldsmith in 1996, UbuWeb is the place on the internet to find avant-garde video, poetry, music and outsider art. UbuWeb is completely non-commercial and operates on a gift economy, relying on content and technical support from a wide variety of organizations and people. According to the editors “UbuWeb embodies an unstable community, neither vertical nor horizontal but a rather a Deleusian nomadic model: a 4-dimensional space simultaneously expanding and contracting in every direction, growing rhizomatically with ever-increasing unpredictability and uncanniness.”
Posted by Joan Winter on September 21, 2009 in art, images, photography, words | No Comments »
Rent textbooks from Chegg.com. The company gathers books at the end of a semester and rents or sells them at a fraction of the cost. Chegg also plants a tree for every book you rent, buy or sell.
Read more about the company in the New York Times article.
Tags: free, textbooks
Posted by Joan Winter on July 15, 2009 in words | No Comments »
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.
Tags: digital images, digital media, DocMorph, file conversion, freeware
Posted by Joan Winter on May 19, 2009 in blog, words | No Comments »
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have partnered to create Chronicling America, a newspaper database that allows you to view newspaper pages from 10 different states and dating from 1880-1910. Chronicling America also includes a search directory with access to information about newspapers collected from as early as 1690.
Tags: American newspapers, Chronicling America, historic newspapers, Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 29, 2009 in architectural history, art, photography, words | No Comments »
Newark Athlete from the Library of Congress’ collection of films from the Edison Company
The Library of Congress’ YouTube Channel includes a selection from their Early Film collection. The 1904 Westinghouse Works films illustrate turn of the century industry with panoramic views of factories, machines, and people working. The films from Edison Companies include athletes, contortionists, knife jugglers, Native American dancers as well as experiments in early sound recording.
Tags: film, Library of Congress, YouTube
Posted by Joan Winter on April 23, 2009 in art, images, words | No Comments »
Dome of the Rock in the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, Wellcome Images
The Wellcome Library has assembled an eclectic library of images that range from architectural photographs and representations to scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of cancer cells and bacteria. The Wellcome Library’s image collection is a useful resource for contextualizing architectural history, examining biological forms to create unique designs, and enhancing visual perspectives of the broader sphere of human biological, sociological, historical, and anthropological relations.
Tags: anthropology, architecture, art, biology, health, images, manuscripts, medicine, nature, orientalism, photography, religion, sociology, war, Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
The Visual Resource Collection has created a glossary to assist the amateur or even more experienced photographer. General terminology, camera components, and development methods are included along with illustrations and a chart that organizes lens types and focal lengths according to their uses. In addition, a second chart provides a quick reference to film development in the School of Architecture Photo Union dark room.
Tags: images, Photo Union, photography, words
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 8, 2009 in images, photography, words | No Comments »
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