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…
posts – matters of design
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…
the Classical and the Romantic
Belsay, Northumberland. Early nineteenth century. Visiting with Bianca (Carpeneti). As pure a contrast between the Classical and Gothic Romantic as can be imagined. Here is something I have written to appear in my forthcoming book “The Archaeological Imagination” – to my embarrassment and frustration still in (final) revision. Sir Charles Monck decided not to restore…
landscape aesthetics – tactics (continued)
From a conversation in the Dun Cow, Durham (with Bianca Carpeneti and Chris Witmore). Topic – archaeology, ruins and the picturesque landscape. The allure, the ideology, the challenge to avoid cliché. How do we deal with archaeological landscapes today? Should I just give up photography? As a tainted medium? This is too simple a response…
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