Rdmond: Make your Museum API, part 1: Ruby -
From my other Tumblr:
(Photo by Marcin Wichary)
For a while now I’ve been working on an API for the Guggenheim Collection Online — don’t get too excited, it’ll be a long time before we start handing out API keys — and I thought it would be a good time to share a few of the things I’ve learned, especially…
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“, I think that the generation ahead of you always tends to set you puzzles—and the thing that always puzzled me about the post–World War II generation is: Why did they go from being optimistic about science and rationality, and things like planning, to a dark, almost apocalyptic pessimism in the 1970s? It’s an incredibly quick switch, and the example I just gave you about the correct liberal way of doing a film about torture is a good one. You go out and elegantly film people, sometimes in silhouette, recounting terrible, horrible experiences—combined with haunting, Arvo Pärt–style music over bleak landscapes. And that’s it. I’m not being cynical or flippant about the peoples’ experiences—but I just think that the editorial approach was to wrap those experiences in a rigid melancholy that traps everyone—audience, filmmakers, and the tortured—in a feeling of helplessness. And it’s called moving. So I decided to do a series that went back and looked at the rise and fall of that optimism about science and rationality and planning to try and understand more why it failed.” — In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part II | e-flux (via jomc)
(via jomc)
(via museumnerd)
Tomorrow is Jackson Pollock’s birthday. Y’all ready?
Happy Almost Birthday, Jackson Pollock.
Shoes with lots of history (Jackson Pollock’s)
“Projects that are open to participation—where the audience is invited to comment on and collaborate in the making of the work using a technological system set up by the curator, institution, or artist—do question authorship. But authorship, it turns out, is not the biggest problem in our age of user-generated content. Who made it becomes of secondary importance to who uploaded it, who tagged it, and who now owns it.” — Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook in Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (2010)
(Source: pcah.us, via jeffdtaylor)
Online, Can a Museum Be A Person? -
English version of En ligne, un musée peut-il être une personne?
En ligne, un musée peut-il être une personne? -
My essay on museums and social media for the French Ministry of Culture’s blog.
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Over on my other blog, a little more design wisdom from Steve Jobs…
(Source: blog.litot.es)
