just what is a car?

I am in Amsterdam for eDay – one of the regular business conferences organized by the Dutch magazine Emerce. Ji Lee, Facebook Creative Director, opened with a pep talk about social media: “Ideas are nothing. Doing is everything.” Then there were talks about advertising, platforms (not products), marketing and branding, selling cheaply to poor people…

Paul Noble – artist | archaeologist

Sjarel Ex (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen) has introduced me to the extraordinary, the wonderful work of Paul Noble [Link] [Link] [Link] A paradigm of the archaeological imagination. Paul has been drawing his Nobson Newtown for a number of years. I could just about tick every one of the categories in my blog. I will have…

Flodden Field

Today is the 500th anniversary of Flodden Field – the battle near the village of Branxton in Northumberland, just south of the Scottish border. Here is what I wrote about the site on a visit back in 2007 [Link] In the tracks of northern antiquaries, summer 2007 September 9 1513: in the low rolling hills…

car culture – a week in Monterey

At the Monterey Motorsports Reunion Legends of the Autobahn Concorso Italiano Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance (where the Revs Program awarded, for the first time, the Revs Prize for most historically significant car in show – [Link] Some selections from a gallery of photographs at archaeographer.com – [Link] Legends of the Autobahn Concorso Italiano – posing…