The internet is a crazy thing. Once, before, an online travel guide company found a picture I had taken of the Seattle Public Library and asked to use it in their guide for the city. Now, somehow a production company in Tokyo found one of my papercuttings and asked to use it in a segment of the TV show Tokyo Eye about cool cafes. So, there will be glimpses of my art broadcast online and to Japan on July 24 and September 10! From what I’ve been told about the segment, I wish we had cafes this awesome in the US (that’s a teaser to make you curious). Here’s the info:
Tokyo Eye #299: Cool Cafés
■Overseas broadcast
NHK World TV
Wednesday, 7/24 9:30～9:58（Japan）
To determine where the show will be broadcast in various regions, enter the information on this page.
150 Mixed media painting [May Subd Geog] [sp 85086321]
* 550 BT Mixed media (Art)
Bouquet Anvers by Ger Van Elk
150 Nineteen ninety‑three, A.D. [Not Subd Geog] [sp2011001971]
450 UF 1993 A.D. 450 UF Nineteen hundred ninety‑three, A.D.
450 UF Year nineteen ninety‑fthree, A.D.
550 BT Nineteen nineties
Windows 3.11 screenshot, from Wikipedia
150 Islands—Macedonia [sp2011001898]
It seems there’s only one island in Macedonia, so it probably slipped through the cracks until now…but in that case perhaps there should be a new heading that reads “Island — Macedonia”?
click me!
150 Rainbow in art CANCEL
150 Rainbows in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp 85111207]
450 UF Rainbow in art [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
Online exhibit and dynamic digital map created by the Universidad Francisco Marroquín. According to the site, it was “voted “Best Virtual Map Presentation” at ESRI Conference in San Diego, California” — and with good reason. I was impressed by how fluid the dynamic map navigation is, and how vibrant the images are, even when zoomed in to the max. The presentation of the map’s history and the layout of the site in general are really nice, in my opinion. And the “digital restoration swipe tool” is just cool. I was excited to be able to find something like this for a patron who was just starting to do research on the Lienzo.
Eufloria
I started playing this game last night. Who knew empire-building could be so relaxing?! “Eufloria is an ambient game of space exploration and conquest that employs surprising themes of plant growth and bio mechanical evolution” — and it’s loosely based on Le Petit Prince. The colors and music are wonderful, and the navigation is quite novel (at least for a newbie like me). I am hooked.
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“Taylor . . . does possess one of the most purely beautiful among current countertenor voices, and uses it with skill and poise in predominantly slow music in which reliable intonation and breath control are so important. He also enjoys the best instrumental backing overall, with the mixed violins and viols of the Theatre of Early Music offering lush, consolatory warmth and lithe rhetorical springiness as required. . . . [P]erhaps ultimately his performances are the ones which make the strongest all-round appeal to the senses.” — Lindsay Kemp, Gramophone
(C) 150 Vivisection in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010012137]
or how ’bout in movies?
This story centers around a high-tech biotechnology lab. From its confines comes "Max," a genetically engineered killing machine in the guise of a household pet dog.
150 Bodies of water in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010010340] waterfall by Noemie Goudal
151 Turkey—Imprints [sp2010010950] this isn't actually what they meant.
150 Windows—Design and construction [sp2010010981] by Ayla87 on sxc.hu
Oddities
Amazing that “stuffed foods” is the broader heading. It makes sense, in a weird sort of way. 150 Burritos (Cooking) [May Subd Geog] [sp 91002636]
450 UF Burritos (Cookery) [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
550 BT Stuffed foods (Cooking)
(C) 150 Blondes in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010010078]
150 Cell phones in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010012003]
053 N8217.C269
On Libraries
Not sure I really think digital curation is synonymous with digital libraries. One is an action/process, the other is a thing, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 150 Digital libraries [May Subd Geog] [sp 95008857]
* 450 UF Digital curation
After a lovely weekend of fun with Rooms C, and professional meanderings at the ARLIS/NA conference in Boston, life is back to normal…watching hockey, making soups….whooo the Canadiens just beat Washington!!! Anyways, what I wanted to post is an image of the first papercutting I’ve made in a long time. It is/was for a friend’s birthday, which is good motivation to make any crafty item. I think part of what kept me from making new cuttings for awhile is a feeling that I’d exhausted the easily accessible patterns, and was daunted by the thought of making my own (though I’d done it a couple times, with minimal success). Well, this cutting is the result of me morphing together 3 traditional Polish patterns from the book Folk Art Designs From Polish Wycinanki and Swiss and German Scherenschnitte. (or they might be from this book, I can’t remember). I wonder if this counts as a derivative work?!
A recent post on the ARLIS email list summarized a collective brainstorm about library-related pranks or (sometimes) unsolicited art projects. Here are some of the best ones:
Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell stole books from the Islington Library, altered the book jackets or endpapers (usually with absurd photocollages), and returned the books surreptitiously.
For a graded project, several thousand receipts of library fines were suspended on strings from the ceiling in an aisle of the library stacks, dozens on each string. The visual effect was like a disorienting blizzard.
Tiny models of books, no more than a half inch tall, each with titles containing the word “big” or “little” were found in the stacks. Later a miniature book truck and miniature bookends were also found.
Several books (not from the library) were found in the stacks, each with a corkscrew driven through it.
A handmade book, shaped like a mountain, was found in the stacks.
Periodical runs bound in separate colors were mixed to create striped patterns.
Pictorial microfiche were misfiled in a manner so that, someone correcting one of the misfilings would discover another, and so on, in a long sequence that ended where it began.
Nickel and dime bags of marijuana were found in between the spine cover and text block of some art history books in the stacks. It was eventually determined that someone was dealing dope by issuing call numbers to paid customers.
John Latham, Art and Culture, 1966-9. (St. Martin’s School of Art, London) — Clement Greenberg’s most famous book was borrowed from the library, chewed by artists at a party, spat into a jar, processed with chemicals, and the pulp sealed in a glass vial. This was returned to the librarian in response to overdue notices and is now in the MOMA collection.
Temporary Services, Library Project, 2001. (Harold Washington Library, Chicago) — 100 books selected or made by 60 artists were given classification numbers and library markings and smuggled into the collections of the main public library.
Kathy Slade, 52 Transactions, 2006-7. (Vancouver Public Library) — The artist charged out one or more books once each week for a year, saved all of the transaction slips, including some service errors, and published them as a book. (Permission was obtained but the workers participating in the performance were unaware.)
150 Animal jumping [May Subd Geog] [sp 85005205]
* 450 UF Animal leaping
* 450 UF Jumping behavior in animals
* 450 UF Leaping behavior in animals
Humans jumping animals: “Gaito Loka becomes a man during his initiation ritual, sometimes called cattle jumping. Male friends and relatives hold the animals in place as the jumper runs along their backs. Afterward, the young Hamar man must adhere to a strict diet including blood, milk, and honey until he marries.” – National Geographic
150 Stop‑motion animation films [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010000786]
450 UF Object animation films
450 UF Stop‑action animation films
450 UF Stop‑motion animated films
450 UF Stop‑motion films
550 BT Animated films
vegetables and Star Wars to encourage us to buy organic!
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150 History painting [May Subd Geog] [sp2008007183]
680 Here are entered works on narrative painting that depicts several figures enacting a scene usually drawn from classical history or mythology, or from the Bible.
550 BT Painting
150 Art objects in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010001816]
150 Bananas in popular culture [May Subd Geog] CHANGE GEOG [sp2006007645]
* 680 Here are entered works on the representation of bananas in popular culture.
150 Gifted Hawaiian children [May Subd Geog] [sp2010001320]
450 UF Gifted children, Hawaiian
450 UF Hawaiian gifted children
550 BT Gifted children—United States
550 BT Hawaiian children
150 Educational films [May Subd Geog] [sp2001000481]
* 680 This heading is used as a topical heading for works about films that are intended to impart knowledge and information, including those for classroom viewing. Works about films designed to impart skills or techniques to general audiences, typically in a “how‑to” manner, are entered under Instructional films. When used as topical headings they are subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
151 NGC 300 (Galaxy) [sp2009009615]
667 This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision.
451 UF Dun 530 (Galaxy)
451 UF GC 169 (Galaxy)
451 UF H 2359 (Galaxy)
451 UF NGC300 (Galaxy)
550 BT Spiral galaxies
(image from nasa.gov)
150 Peddlers and peddling in art CANCEL 150 Peddlers in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp 85099130]
450 UF Peddlers and peddling in art [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
(“Marchand d’abat-jour, rue Lepic” – Eugène Atget. albumen print (c.1900) from the George Eastman House collection on Flickr.)
150 Precarious employment [May Subd Geog] [sp2009008937]
680 Here are entered works on labor that is poorly paid, unregulated, and lacks job
security.
450 UF Employment, Precarious
550 BT Labor Gus Powell – from “Voetganger Amsterdam” series
for now I went with a more literal interpretation of “precarious”.
150 Ceilings—Decoration [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010550]
550 BT Decoration and ornament
(a picture of a ceiling at the Library of Congress, from my Flickr)
150 Corn—Utilization [May Subd Geog] [sp 86004524]
* 681 Example under Plants, Useful CANCEL
* 681 Example under Plants, Useful; Wildlife utilization
(vintage postcard from Jasperdo’s Flickr photostream)
(USA Today article)
I have actually been to the Corn Palace!
150 Rock musicians in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009010571]
150 Crime in music [sp2009009410]
680 Here are entered works on the depiction of crime in musical compositions. General works on the relationship between crime and music are entered under Music and crime.
550 BT Music
681 Notes under Music and crime
150 Landscapes in music [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009009236]
680 Here are entered works on the depiction of natural landscapes in musical
compositions.
550 BT Music
Mood films [Not Subd Geog] [sp2008025676]
680 This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films that emphasize a mood or
atmosphere rather than a plot.
555 BT Fiction films
The record for the above heading indicates that there’s a genre of Japanese fiction film to which the term “mood film” has been applied. A friend suggested that something like Wavelength might be considered a “mood film”. However, it also seems to be a common term in the advertising field, where it refers to things like this. According to NTC’s Dictionary of Advertising, 2nd ed, a “mood commercial” is a “commercial message designed to establish a particular atmosphere.” Or perhaps a commercial that encourages you to match your fridge to your mood?
Odeon of Agrippa (Athens, Greece) [sp2009008379]
410 UF Agrippa, Odeon of (Athens, Greece)
410 UF Agrippeion (Athens, Greece)
410 UF Ōdeio tou Agrippa (Athens, Greece)
410 UF Odeion of Agrippa (Athens, Greece)
410 UF Odeum of Agrippa (Athens, Greece)
550 BT Theaters—Greece
I’m including this next one not because I’m a Potter fan, but because I find it bizarre and amusing that there was probably a discussion (or a lively debate?) about whether Hogwarts should be considered a place or an organization. I guess imaginary places are as worthy of accurate subject headings as real places, or, um, organizations…?
150 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place) CANCEL
(C) 150 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary organization) [Not Subd Geog] [sp 00002633]
450 UF Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place) [EARLIER FORM
OF HEADING]
150 Legislators’ pets [May Subd Geog] [sp2009009244]
550 BT Pets
In My senator and me : a dog’s eye view of Washington Senator Kennedy’s dog, Splash, follows the senator around for a day and introduces readers to the White House.
DjahalLand (Illustration, concept art and design for visual development)
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009007816]
At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the 21-year-old newly wedded Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, a Scottish heiress and celebrated beauty, enchanted the power brokers of the Ottoman Empire, using her charms to obtain their permission for her husband’s audacious plan to deconstruct the Parthenon and bring its magnificent sculptures to England. Two millennia earlier, Aspasia, a female philosopher and courtesan who presided with her lover, the visionary politician Pericles, over Athens’ Golden Age, plied her wits and allure with equal determination, standing with him at the center of vehement opposition to his ambitious plan to construct the most exquisite monuments the world had ever seen.
In parallel stories that resonate hauntingly, Aspasia witnesses the dramatic events that lead to the construction and dedication of the Parthenon, and Mary Nisbet witnesses that same magnificent building’s deconstruction and demise.
According to pugsinformation.org, a series of pug figurines created by German sculptor and porcelain modeller Johann Joachim Kändler served as a secret emblem for an underground German Freemason lodge, the “Mopsorden” – the “Lodge of the Order of the Pug”.
Jesse Higman – “Spiral”
“This Wave Painting was poured on a table specially constructed to curve the flow of water. You can still see the hole in the canvas at the apex of the spiral. For the texture, I mixed a special Golden medium called GAC which lists as a precaution that it may cause foam if stirred aggressively. I use an egg beater to mix. The “paint” I use contains tiny mica flakes which give the painting an iridescent sheen. As the foam bubbles make their way along to the hole, they collect particles of mica which make tiny islands.” -from the artist’s website
