Lebron Hubbard
from the accüsed to zoetrope
In Public Collectors, a rad new project by Chicago-based artist Marc Fischer, we now have a space for cataloging everything else:
Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries,
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cop some pics, copyright cops
Sorting through the gigantic pile of pre-blog material on the SD desk, we just came across this bit of online archival-related activism. It seems that an organization known as public.resource.org, inc, which was founded by ‘nets granddaddy
katrina katrina
Well, it’s been two years since the preventable disaster that was Hurricane Katrina. Here’s an image tailored for Suggested Donation’s audience that is suggestive of the damage:
A new website, happybirthdaykatrina.com, was designed…
Tut v. Franklin
It’s the dog days of summer and things have clearly slowed down around here, with SD’ers in various foreign places enjoying themselves. Nothing jolts us up out of our slumber faster, though, than learning about the protest of the…
lapsed exhibition review: a review
We never claimed that we were timely. Via the excellent Old is the New New, we caught Stefan Schmitt’s thoughtful review of the “Game On” exhibition on the history of video games, which closed last February at the…
getty images licenses 100 workers for unemployment stints
Not exactly Suggested Donation’s turf, but it’s still interesting what’s happening over in the dollar-signs-for-eyeballs, market-driven world of privatized, for-profit, collections. These guys are getting paid AND getting fired.
Earnest Goes to Museum
While diligently researching the pleasingly small world of other museum-related blogs, I just stumbled across Young Museum Professionals. “Dedicated to new museum professionals to connect, share stories, and seek advice“, the site is like an earnest, Midwestern version of…
Imagineering an Interactive Experience
Old news, but I just got back from Chicago, where I finally learned about CSI: The Experience (via its ubiquitous billboards and bus stop ads). This barf-tastic-looking exhibition, on view right now at Chicago’s venerable Museum of…
an up-and-coming occupation
Williamsburg is known for cool bistros and trendy hangouts, but few realize that the neighborhood and its environs are a magnet
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pub-priv pub crawl
Of possible interest to SD grad student-types and other assorted head-nodders is the upcoming conference, “Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public”, the 2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, to be held at…
Virtuaqueesium
Well…on the non-sexy, non-neo-cyber-goth side of Second Life, they are apparently building virtual museums. Neal Stephenson could have warned us about this.
From a paper given at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference:
Exploratorium staff
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MoDo on Cheney v. Natty Archives
In between making fun of Barack Obama for crimes against masculinity, Maureen Dowd takes a sec to expand her ever-irrelevant definition of a manly man (while weighing in on the outrageous Dick Cheney/National Archives scandal):
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