Minted Expands Beyond Stationery With New Art Print Business
Minted, the company that is best known for its online marketplace for stationery with prints by individual graphic designers, has
Read More →How Instagram Imagery Is Transforming
In the world of social media, “celebrity” is a combination of social status and social media presence. The more likes you receive, the more “popular” you appear
Read More →How Social Media Saved the Starfish Circus
Few things in life meet their expectations. Trust me, that is the concept Dave Anthony and I have based our entire Walking the Room podcuddle around. So last month, when, two days before our first WTR-flavored live show, I realized that the 100 Paul Ar…
Read More →Hemingway, Fifty Years Later [Video]
As OpenCulture reminds us, the American novelist Ernest Hemingway died fifty years ago Saturday. He died of a self-administered gunshot wound to the head in Ketchum, Idaho, at the age of 61. Whether you think his fiction is breathtaking or banal, styli…
Read More →Ai Weiwei Released from Chinese Custody: 1 Down, 129 to Go
China’s best known artist, Ai Weiwei, has been stuck away in a Chinese jail since his arrest in early April. He was released today.
“I’m out. I’m fine,” the Los Angeles Times quotes the artist as texting on his release.
We’re delighted when anyone …
Read More →Bloomsday Online: James Joyce, Ulysses and Dublin
Tomorrow, June 16, is “Bloomsday.” Celebrated since 1954, it honors James Joyce and his groundbreaking novel Ulysses, set in the Irish capital and modeled on the ancient Greek epic, the Odyssey. The events of the novel are set on a single day, June 16,…
Read More →OpenCulture Curates Original Audio & Video of Our Cultural Icons
OpenCulture has put together an astonishing collection of audio and video of 230 cultural icons. The media allows us to see and hear mythic contributors to culture as the men and women they were and are.
This collection extends from audio of the Fren…
Read More →For Your iOS Enjoyment: Portland Art Museum’s Place-Based App
How many times have you found yourself in possession of a whole lot of digital content that should be tied to a very specific physical place, maybe even a particular spot in a room, but with no easy way to tie together the two dimensions of online ephe…
Read More →Museum Offers Real (Human) Guides Online
Museum aan de stroom – a brand-new city museum covering the art, shipping and folklore of Antwerp, Belgium – is offering web visitors real, real-time guides. Through June 7, visitors to the museum’s website can interact with, and direct, flesh-and-bloo…
Read More →Making Music and Dance Out of Stars
The night sky has inspired people to create from the moment we as a species could see it above us. Shamans, poets, story-tellers and painters have been impelled to translate what they saw, or how they felt, as the vast bowl of the starry sky turned ove…
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