On the Road at the Autry
The Autry’s Route 66 exhibition was quite a little surprise. Even though I was accompanied by 4 little ones, I managed to get some tidbits of knowledge and my curiosity […]
Serious Play Conference 2014 at USC – roundup
The Serious Play conference, held last week (July 22-24) at the University of Southern California’s School for Cinematic Arts, is a small conference, focused on educational and otherwise ‘serious’ games. […]
Joss Whedon on What Makes a Story–It’s All in the Characters
The museum world has been obsessed with the idea of story and narrative, and I have to admit that I am not exactly sure why. The theme of this year’s […]
Collaboration & Engagement: Museums & the Web 2013 Takeaways
Games, curation, design thinking, more games, crowdsourcding, theater, humor, and 3D printing. These were some of the topics of great salons, discussions, workshops, and sessions, at this year’s Museums & […]
Artists as Archivists/Curators
I recently went to see the exhibition Under the Big Black Sun at MOCA, one of the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions on view around Los Angeles, and was struck by […]
Twitter archive Nov 16-24
sorry for long list – Insane amounts of MCN2011 Tweets included below 24 Nov Shitty @hertz rental car, insulation coming out from windshield. yfrog.com/nz3iqvuj 22 Nov @sluggernova @josephgruber @exposyourmuseum @5easypieces […]
Convergences
Yesterday, I saw Lawrence Weschler speak at the Getty about “convergences” a phenomenon he explores in his new book Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences. In his lecture, Weschler […]
Portrait of Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin is all over the news today for some reason. And somehow I came across this magnificent portrait of her in the L.A. Times, originally taken by Brian Adams […]
5 types of user experience, by John Falk
This week the OCLC held a Digital Forum West mini conference/symposium at the Getty. I noticed that John Falk was the keynote speaker and weaseled my way in to see […]
Visual Literacy for College Freshmen
At U Penn this year, incoming Freshmen are taking a twist on the old classic summer reading project. Instead of reading a novel together, they are looking at a painting, […]
