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VRC Video Highlight: ARTstor Help
Find information on how to use ARTstor by viewing the video posted on YouTube.
Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
UTSOA VRC Delicious Account
NY Times Arts- Dwell
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VRC Video Highlihgt: Flickr Group
Learn how to share images with other faculty, staff and students via the UTSOA’s Flickr group by watching the video posted on YouTube.
What are you doing?
In 140 bytes or less, Twitter has moved into the social networking limelight. For those of us who are luddites, who just don’t get it, Lee LeFever has produced a brief instructional video that explains this micro-blogging quandary in Plain English. LeFever’s philosophy–if paper cutouts can do it, so can you.
LeFever’s video is also available on YouTube.
Library of Congress Joins YouTube
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.
Cooliris
Luis Barragán on Cooliris
Cooliris is a full screen image browsing plug-in now available on Firefox. Creating a cinematic viewing experience, Cooliris assembles a large number of images in an easy to navigate format. Cooliris can be used to browse images and videos on Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and more.
To read more visit the Arts Media Lab blog.
Universal Newsreels at the Internet Archive
Universal Newsreels, released biweekly from 1929 to 1967 for movie audiences, contain six or seven short stories, usually one to two minutes in length. There are over 600 films available on the Internet Archive. Universal Studios placed the newsreels in the public domain and the entire collection is available at the National Archives in Maryland.
UT::SOA Visual Resources Collection wins TLA’s Public Relations Branding Iron Award
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) at UT Austin’s School of Architecture has won this year’s 2009 Texas Library Association’s Public Relations Branding Iron Awards competition in the Non-Traditional Category. The awards committee was impressed by the series of instructional videos the VRC created. Topics include exhibits, ARTstor help, the VRC’s Flickr group, Visual Thesaurus, the VRC’s Blog and RSS feed, image size in PowerPoint, slide scanning, the VRC’s list of curated web resources and an introduction to online digital image collections.
View the videos on the UT::SOA VRC’s YouTube channel
Glass House Conversations
The inaugural Philip Johnson Glass House Conversations brought together great minds to participate in series of six dialogues and in-depth explorations of contemporary issues. “Solution or Sacrifice” explored the viability of modernism (its teaching, practice and preservation) in the 21st century. Other topics included attention and attention spans in an era of prevalent distraction, simplicity and complexity in everyday life, the relationship between civic engagement and design, and the issues of maintaining relevance while preserving architectural memory. Moderators included Jean Gardner, Susan Szenasy, Charles Granquist, Paul Holdengraber, Roger Mandle, John Maeda, and Claudine Brown. Videos are available on YouTube as well as on the Glass House website.
VRC Video Highlight: Slide Scanning
Follow the steps outlined in the VRC’s slide scanning video posted on YouTube to create digital images from your 35mm slides.
Faculty and students may use the VRC’s slide scanner located in the Slide Library during regular business hours.
VRC Video Highlight: Web Resources
Learn about the VRC’s Web Resources page by watching the video posted on YouTube.
