More reports of the damage done to cultural heritage in the Middle East in The Daily Star (Lebanon) NASIRIYA, Iraq: In the southern Iraq desert, the standing structures of ancient archaeological cities dot the horizon – majestic monuments to times long gone.? Untouched for thousands of years, historic temples, palaces, tombs and entire dead cities…
ruins and remains
I found some of your life …
from Steve (Newman) Sam thought you would be interested in this: Slashdot — this was their summary: What would you do if you found someone’s digital media card from their camera in your taxi? One such individual has decided to provide the world with 227 days of entertainment. I Found Some Of Your Life will…
“I Found Some Of Your Life”
Philip has found this very interesting archaeological blog – [Link] – at least an “archaeological” blog in my sense of the term! Monday, July 26, 2004 Introduction In my possession is one (1) memory card from a digital camera. This memory card was found in a taxi in New York City. I have no idea…
augmenting past realities – and a connection with artificial intelligence
How should we reconstruct the past? Is the ideal Virtual Reality and photorealistic simulation? A CGI (pre)history? Under the supposition that this would be like it was back then? My line is that this would be the death of the past. It forgets the material ruin, the archaeological condition that is our cultural and historical…
early photography and archaeology – a matter of hygiene
Chris (Witmore) has sent me some comments about his fascinating research into early photography and archaeology –
Patrick Roddie at Burning Man 2004 – corporealities categorized
Photographer Patrick Roddie has just posted his images of Burning Man 2004 – [Link]. The categories of this epic exploration of corporeality: blue – chests – children – couples – dust & dance – etc – feet – hands – hips – masks – me – men – meta – music – night – paint…