Out running – jet lag gets me up rather early – here at about 5.30 am local time. Lindisfarne, Northumberland – sixteenth century military architecture and a nineteenth century industrial facility turned into a wealthy man’s holiday home (Edward Hudson, proprietor of magazine “Country Life” commissioned Edwin Lutyens to oversee the conversion – very tasteful)….
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Fenwick Lawson – St Aidan's Lindisfarne
The remarkable work of sculptor Fenwick Lawson. Monks carry the coffin of Cuthbert (The Journey – 1999).
35 hands and one paw
The excavation season is starting up again. We’ll soon be off to the Roman borders to Binchester – Vinovium. Chris Witmore (Texas Tech), one of our PIs, sends this as a reminder of last year … thirty-five hands & one paw on Prezi
Innovation Journalism: performance and curation
Conference at Stanford – Innovation Journalism 2011 A panel discussion with Marisa Gallagher of CNN. The topic was the future of journalism and the place of narrative. Mobile Media Design – Is the Medium Still the Message?. The contemporary crisis in journalism is simple. With everyone able to witness and publish their experiences of newsworthy…
Rotterdam – Andor von Barsy
Came across the wonderful documentary photography of Andor von Barsy on a recent trip to Rotterdam. So reminiscent of my childhood in a shipbuilding port in the north east of England. My history and childhood seems to be black and white and written now in silver crystals.
archaeography – developments
A session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (United States) conference 2011- Dialogs in Archaeological Photography. Flickr galleries – [Link] [Link] Here are some notes accompanying the fascinating and sometimes wonderful pictures. Nostalgic, Personal, Neglected, Treasured, Rejected: The Other Photography in Archaeology Colleen Morgan, University of California, Berkeley, clmorgan@berkeley.edu Our record of archaeological uncertainty is…
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