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Blanton Takes Followers Behind the Scenes on Periscope Tours
From a desktop in Austin or a mobile phone across the country, you can now take an up-close tour of some breathtaking art at UT.
The Blanton Museum of Art’s new series Color Bars gives followers behind-the-scenes access to the museum’s exhibits through virtual tours with experts.
Today’s tour is lead by artist Natalie Frank, who will take viewers through her new exhibition about the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, for which she created drawings based on the original, explicit versions of the stories.
The 20-minute tours feature different Blanton curators, educators, staff and other members of the art community, giving followers an insider’s look at the museum’s exhibits. The tours are broadcast using Periscope, a mobile app that lets users stream live video to followers, who can watch on phones, tablets, desktops and computers.
[Want to experience the Blanton Museum of Art’s inspiring collections and beautiful galleries in person? Plan your visit.]
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"Blue Milk and Death Sticks" is my favorite Jim Jarmusch movie.
Perfect for blue milk
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The pencils of creative minds.
Clockwise from top: Celia Birtwell, Thomas Heatherwick, Anish Kapoor, Dave Eggers, and Tom Dixon.
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One of my favorite pieces of all time. Saw this in a glass show at the MFA way back when, long before I started working in museums.
@kivafordglass here from the IG takeover! One of my favorites from the museum “Cityscape” by Jay Musler. #jaymusler #corning #explorecorning #glassfest http://ift.tt/1Bj7DlB
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“If there is a real story here, it is that at the same time The Ban is sweeping across the museum world, many museums are actually liberalizing their photography policies.
But “museums liberalizing photography policies” isn’t a great story for the media, because that story doesn’t make conspicuous use of the popular search term ‘selfie.’“
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This is what happens when anyone can design their own Kindle book cover.
Just like nobody can hear you scream in space, nobody can see what book you’re reading on your Kindle. It’s one of the reasons 50 Shades of Grey blew up. Who knew that letting readers ingest their BDSM fiction nearly anywhere, sans public shaming, would catch on? E. L. James, that’s who. Yet, even with thousands and thousands of words (and a plot), authors still need a cover; not only so it will look nice on digital bookshelves, but also to help legitimize their work when you’re holding your mouse over that buy button. Thanks to the brave new(ish) world that is digital self-publishing, self-designed book covers exist without any committees or publishers to say no, or ask “why does that man have the head of a horse?" And so Kindle Cover Disasters was born.
The Tumblr, which was spotted by The Guardian, is a compendium of bad Photoshops, misguided ideas, and what might be viewed during other times in human history as fine art. “It is the hubris of it that people get a kick out of,” the blog’s anonymous curator told The Guardian. “The devil-may-care attitude of an author, who, with zero arts training, says to themselves: ‘How hard can it be?’”
From the looks of things — not hard enough.
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EPCOT Origins
Thanks to a loyal reader of this blog, I’ve fortunately come into some fantastic and rare pictures of EPCOT Center in its formative years. The above photos are from all years of EPCOT’s construction, dating back to 1979, and just up to a few months before the turnstiles were thrown open to the Vacation Kingdom’s second gate.
The first picture is perhaps the most alien and unrecognizable of all of them, despite being related to one Walt Disney World’s most iconic landmarks and structures. Those concrete pylons in the ground are the support system for Spaceship Earth, which will soon rise nearly 180 feet into the air. Spaceship Earth is supported by six legs, in three groups, though each are connected to one another so as to equally distribute the structure’s weight and allow the sphere to gracefully “float” above the ground. Two of the groups above are the familiar blue legs that stand at the entrance to Future World, while the third leg group sits behind the sphere and is hidden by the Earth Station structure, which houses the loading, unloading, and post show areas. That leg also houses the mechanics for the assent and descent ramps.
Picture 2 gives us a great look at this system in action. The legs, now with vertical supports, are beginning to support Spaceship Earth’s “core” structure, with provides the weighted center of the building. This core column is the heart of the building itself, with the rounded and spherical edges being “hung” and constructed off of that much simpler structure. Picture 3 illustrates that point in a much clearer way, as you can see the vertical and cylindrical support core, and Spaceship Earth’s spherical body being formed around that. Also note the fantastic view into the structure itself, the spiraling flooring being constructed up and down the sphere’s body will soon house the mechanics for the omnimover ride and its show scenes.
Picture 3 is also notable for being taken from The Land’s roof, leading me to believe that this picture is from mid 1981, when The Land would have been structurally complete, and awaiting its show elements. The Universe of Energy is also nearly complete visible in this shot.
The Land is also our subject for photos 4 and 5. 4 shows off EPCOT’s third geodesic structure under construction for Listen to the Land’s greenhouse. EPCOT’s other two geodesic structures can be found in Spaceship Earth: The interior and waterproof hull of the building (as seen in black in picture 8) follows a triangular pattern, and of course, Spaceship Earth’s silver alucobond skin, which in itself is a separate structure, attached to the sphere’s side. A gap of several feet exists between the silver tiles and Spaceship Earth’s interior building.
Picture 5 is a wonderful vista of the interior of The Land and Walter Peregoy’s original atrium murals. Walter Peregoy was one of Walt Disney’s early animators and had been with Disney since the first productions at the studio. Peregoy is also known for painting the whimsical murals in Journey into Imagination’s loading zone.
Picture 6 shows off Canada’s rocky facade under construction, at the ground level to the pavilion, just where the entrance is to the CircleVision 360 theater is, today.
And finally, pictures 6 and 7 boasting great views of France, in 1982 and almost to opening day and late in 1981, with still a bit of work to go. Note that Chefs de Paris does not have its expanded dining room yet, as that won’t be added on until the mid 1980s. Also interesting is the great view of the model of the Eiffel Tower, unceremoniously tacked on to the back of the Impressions de France theater. The earlier picture doesn’t have the Eiffel Tower constructed yet, though you can see its base, ready and waiting. Picture 7 also has a look at both England and Canada being pieced together, as Spaceship Earth is beginning to be clad in its triangular skin, as I mentioned earlier.
Thanks again to the reader that sent these along- these are delightful images of EPCOT Center in the making and proof of how intricate and daring the original park was. Enjoy!
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UPDATE: December 2nd, 2014-
I just found two shots of Spaceship Earth and it’s dynamically engineered structure that clearly illustrate the concepts I talked about above.
The first shows off Spaceship Earth’s alucobond skin being lifted into place with a special custom made winch. Each tile is unique for the gap that it fills on the structure. Given that there is an American flag attached to the tiles, this is most likely from Spaceship Earth’s “bottoming out” ceremony. Where most buildings just have a topping out ceremony, Spaceship Earth marked this occasion, too, if for how unique the structure was, in the first place. “Bottoming out” might have been just as a large a feat of raising the building in the first place, as the curved sides of the sphere were hung off of the sides of the support system.
The second shot is another fantastic glimpse of the very basis of the support structure and how Spaceship Earth is anchored into the ground. Enjoy!
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If I disagree, that's a conversation; if you disagree, that's a decision
I'm sitting in the "Change Agent" session at #MCN2014 and something that Douglas Hegley said registered with me. He said that to be true agents of change, we need to be able to remove our egos from the situation. So when your director suddenly has a brilliant idea to do something that you yourself had already proposed six years ago, you should just grit your teeth and go along.
I agree, to a point. But if we want to really be responsive organizations, organizations that can adapt and change as needed in a timely way, we have to make sure that our decision-making processes (particularly around so-called digital efforts) actually take into account the expertise that's in the room. Not to throw class trash, but a decision-making process that over-privileges certain voices over others, no matter what the subject matter, is not one that is fundamentally sustainable. If the situation becomes one of "when I disagree, that's the start of the conversation, but when you disagree, that's a decision," it has the cumulative effect of discouraging innovation.
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I love this era of classical music sleeve design. It makes the music seem so vital and necessary, rather than just "good for you."
S. Neil Fujita, cover artwork for Glenn Gould, 1959. Columbia Records
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GUYS COLORADO NEEDS SOME HELP
There is a bill about to be passed called Amendment 67 that is the ban on ALL abortions. THIS INCLUDES IF THE MOTHER WOULD DIE OR IF SHE WAS RAPED. THIS BILL ALSO CAN MAKE POLICE INSTIGATE ALL NON-LIVE BIRTHS (MISCARRIAGE/STILLBORN).
If you want more information, the article is [here] and they have an indigogo page [here] to help fund the stop of Amendment 67.
TUMBLR PLEASE BLOW THIS UP. PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU
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Just uploaded Episode #6 - And the difference is you to Mixcloud. Listen now!
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In the span of a little more than 12 hours, the Internet managed to raise over a million dollars to bring back Reading Rainbow. When we want to, we can actually be a positive force.
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