A fascinating week for the Revs Program at Laguna Seca Racetrack. Coordinated effort to document the driving experience – historic cars – and the community who cherish automotive heritage. Raising the profile of automotive studies, taking seriously this vital iconic part of the contemporary past. As Mark Gessler – HVA (Historic Vehicle Association) and FIVA…
Author: Michael Shanks
racing experiences (1) – Laguna Seca
Pre-reunion weekend at Laguna Seca Racetrack – racing old cars. We, the Revs Program at Stanford, are exploring how to capture the experience – in every sense. Instrumenting car and driver.
Revs at Monterey Motorsports Reunion
We are gearing up for taking the Revs Program [Link] [Link] along to the week-long run up to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance [Link]. During the pre-Reunion weekend and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we will have a booth in the paddock area to enable people to learn more about us. Miles Collier will have…
the power of storytelling
A nice development from one of our classes in the d.school – a company set up to help people tell stories about their lives. Here is a write-up in Fast Company – Storytree Wants Families To Spin, Share, And Save Good Yarns. Storytree: Remember the Time from StoryTree on Vimeo.
site and artifact – media materialities
Sam (Schillace) has put me onto a very interesting photo project – where site becomes the surface of artifact. PhotoGraphy from ShiKai Tseng on Vimeo. (An artifact is placed inside a pinhole camera that records a 360 degree panorama onto its surface.) Further focus on medium as mode of engagement, as much as signal and…
cultural values – media and heritage
Today – lunch in the House of Commons with Alan Campbell MP, a member of the last Labour UK Government, a leading political representative in the north east of England, a historian. Our discussion: local and regional identity, culture and economic development in the region – how these topics inform our excavation at Binchester, our…
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