Ah, podcasts. There are so many good ones out there, but they are often so poorly organized that I give up before I find anything useful. Which is frustrating, since I am certain – certain! – that just the right podcast exists for today’s workout!
But there are a few shining lights, sites that organize their [...]
This week, I thought I’d highlight a few online projects/resources that explore this great nation of ours, state by state.
The 50 States Project is an online photographic tour of the country, courtesy of 50 photographers, one in each state. From their website:
Each photographer lives in one of the 50 states and during the year long [...]
Also filed in News, Surveys, Web Resources
|
Tagged 50 Bands, 50 States, Adam Jahiel, exhibit, Google Insights for Search, humanities, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, music, National, photographs, statistics, The 50 States Project
|
So after I blogged about Capitol Words, I got curious. Surely Congress’s words aren’t the only ones being tracked!
Sure enough, twistori and Visible Tweets are keeping up-to the moment tabs on what people are twittering about. At Visible Tweets, you can plug in a word — or a phrase, your name, whatever — and any [...]
The Wyoming Humanities Council is pleased to announce the Humanities Matter! conference, which will take place October 23-24 at Central Wyoming College in Riverton.
The Wyoming Humanities Council’s Humanities Matter! conference will bring together representatives of community organizations, museum and library personnel, interested community members, and humanities faculty from across Wyoming to explore how to work [...]
Today’s entry comes to us courtesy of Dr. Mary Keller, a historian of religions who teaches for the Religious Studies program at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Keller also writes a weekly column for the Cody Enterprise on the importance of knowing our history as we address contemporary issues. The following is an excerpt from [...]
There seems to be an online community for every conceivable interest these days. Some of the most amusing, in my book, are online havens for grammar nerds. Oh, the squabbling over minutiae! Oh, the factions: prescriptivists battling descriptivists! It’s an anthropology graduate student’s dream come true!
At the same time, it is comforting to know that [...]
Ever since Jenny Venn, the graphic design professor at the University of Wyoming, mentioned that most of her students’ initial interest in graphic design comes from their experience with graphic novels and Japanese anime and manga, I’ve been thinking about the way comics reflect culture. Here are a few nifty sites I encountered as I [...]
We’ve been focusing so much on the visual lately that it seemed a sensory switch was in order. And since R&D has yet to find a way to get Pat the Bunny up onto your monitors, for today’s globally-themed post, I’ll ask you to lend me your ears instead.
Forvo bills itself as the largest pronunciation [...]
So far, we’ve talked quite a lot about high art. But what about the history of design, say? Or folk art? Or out-and-out kitsch?
Enter The Museum of Online Museums, a clearinghouse of collections big and small. Sure, they’ve got links to heavy hitters like the Rijksmuseum and The Art Institute of Chicago, but they also [...]
Last week’s post dealt with how new technology facilitates direct encounters with masterpieces of art. But the whole reason the discipline of Art History exists is that there’s always much more to a work of art than meets the eye.
Enter smARThistory, a “free multi-media web-book” created by two art historians: Dr. Beth Harris, Director of [...]