I was already deeply disappointed when I first heard that [[Devo]] was selling off song rights for two-bit commercials - something just seems lost when music you believed was critiquing mindless consumerism is being employd to hock a Twix! Below is a list excerpted from about.com regarding 80s music used in commercials (presented in [...]
Archive for January, 2006
Check this out, while searching Mary Washington on the internet archives I came up with a couple of gems, one from the 1940s and one from the 21st century:
A group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies [...]
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The Library of Virginia’s Digital Image Archives have some really interesting photos online, check this one out of the student group called the MWC Calvary - and this one as well (there are many, many more like it). These may prove extremely useful for the students in the Historic Preservation Museum Lab class [...]
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If you haven’t seen boingboing today, check out this post linking to the Encyclopedia Britannica’s short film titled Despotism. As a side note, this film is housed, and available for download at the Internet Archive - a veritable treasure chest of historical films, images and other public-domain digital documents. These folks have a vision for [...]
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Getting back to the roots of web logging, here are a few links (some of which have accumulated in my bookmarks for way too long) for your perusal:
Reveal is a cool extensionn for Firefox 1.5 (just another reason to upgrade)
Giant Octopus attacking submarine caught on video (video yet to be relesaed)
An article in [...]
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While discussing the limits and possibilites of the current external web hosting experiment at UMW with my colleagues this morning, the issues of narrative and instructional technology once again emerged as a useful way of framing the ongoing conversation about the role of technology within the classroom, as well as the university setting more [...]
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I have no idea why Chuck Norris has become a cult hero - but I recently read an article in the Washington Post that outlines the current twenty-something generations’ fascination with Chuck Norris (personally, I think he is the most pathetic excuse for an action hero since Fred Ward in Remo Williams). After finishing the [...]
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In [[Gus Van Sant]]’s [[Drugstore Cowboy]], [[Matt Dillon]] blames the “TV babies” for his demise, and while things have changed a bit from the drug-haze of Portland, OR during the 70s - certain media-inspired scapegoats have remained intact. As a forerunner of today’s oft maligned videogame babies, I would like to take a minute and [...]
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Wireless has come a long way at UMW, baby …
Published January 20th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 Comments… but it cerainly lacks some of the “innate coolness” that characterized the aesthetics of Mary Washington wireless from ages gone by - what can I say, like any good noir will testify to, they just dressed better back then!!!
But don’t let me sway you - take a look for yourself at the picture below [...]
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Historic Preservation in the Digital Age …
Published January 19th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 3 CommentsBefore I offer an anatomy of Mario Bava’s oeuvre (which will be available in weekly installments each and every Tuesday), let me digress a little and discuss some other, rather different, concerns that have occupied me as of late.
One project in particular that I have been working on in my new found home at the [...]
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