As seen at Vancouver Art Gallery, Aug. 28, 2014 – ergo: lost in the memory palace was a series of rooms with odd situations occurring in or around them – storms, film loops, records in cacophony, and an online component too
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online repositories of knowledge, art, literatures, historical texts
Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything | VAG
Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything | VAG
Exhibit · Ended
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby StVancouver, BC,
V6Z 2H7
Salvador Dali – his home in Portlligat
The decoration of the house is surprising, extraordinary. Perhaps the most exact adjective would be: never-before-seen. I do not believe that there is anything like it, in this country or in any other…. Dalí’s house is completely unexpected…. It contains nothing more than memories, obsessions. The fixed ideas of its owners. There is nothing traditional, nor inherited, nor repeated, nor copied here. All is indecipherable personal mythology…. There are art works (by the painter), Russian things (of Mrs. Gala), stuffed animals, staircases of geological walls going up and down, books (strange for such people), the commonplace and the refined, etc.
New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online, Makes Them Free to Download and Use
Open Access Maps at NYPL
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.* To the extent that some jurisdictions grant NYPL an additional copyright in the digital reproductions of these maps, NYPL is distributing these images under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The maps can be viewed through the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections page, and downloaded (!), through the Map Warper.
When I was a kid, my father brought home from I know not where an enormous collection of National Geographic magazines spanning the years 1917 to 1985. I found, tucked in almost every issue, one of the magazine’s gorgeous maps—of the Moon, St. Petersburg, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe’s ever-shifting boundaries. I became a cartography enthusiast and geographical sponge, poring over them for years just for the sheer enjoyment of it, a pleasure that remains with me today. Whether you’re like me and simply love the imaginative exercise of tracing a map’s lines and contours and absorbing information, or you love to do that and you get paid for it, you’ll find innumerable ways to spend your time on the new Open Access Maps project at the New York Public Library.
1150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.
675 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. (via OpenCulture)
Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.
Metsker Maps of Seattle: Maps of All Kinds, Globes, USGS Maps, Travel Guides, Charts
Metsker Maps of Seattle: Maps of All Kinds, Globes, USGS Maps, Travel Guides, Charts
Metsker Maps is located on 1st Avenue, between Pike and Pine, in downtown Seattle. We are one of the largest (or perhaps thelargest) map store in the U.S. Although we carry many local maps we have maps of all types, from all over the world.
We sell folded maps, hiking maps, wall maps, maps for kids, flags, nautical charts, globes, antique map reprints, books, maps gifts and many map things. If it’s related to maps/geography/travel/hiking//recreation, we’ve got it!
Carpaethia Postcards
Open Culture and UC Berkley sharing information for public goodness
via Open Culture “Enlightened Ideas and Media – Served up Fresh”
25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley’s iTunes initiative which, to sum it up, allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing. Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast. You can find the complete list of courses here, but below we have listed below 25 courses that figure into a “core” undergraduate curriculum. In short, this list includes many good nuts and bolts courses, which will teach you a lot and, even better, cost you nothing. Each of these courses, coming straight from the classroom, can be accessed with Real Player, and some can also be accessed as MP3s.UC Berkeley Courses:
- Buddhist Psychology
- Cell Biology
- Descriptive Introduction to Physics
- Economic Analysis – Micro
- European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
- General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- General Biology
- General Human Anatomy
- General Psychology
- Introduction to Computers
- Introduction to Chemistry
- Introduction to General Astronomy
- Introduction to Human Nutrition
- Introduction to Nonviolence
- Introduction to Statistics
- Issues in Foreign Policy After 911
- Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information
- Macroeconomic Analysis
- Physics for Future Presidents
- Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business
- The American Languages
- The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- US History: from Civil War to Present
- US Foreign Policy After 9/11
- XML Foundations
Open Culture’s Podcast Library
100s of cultural and educational podcasts.
- Arts & Culture Podcasts
- Audio Book Podcasts
- Foreign Language Lesson Podcasts
- News/Information Podcasts
- Science Podcasts
- Technology Podcasts
- University Podcasts – All
- University Podcasts – Business School
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