3d printers for architecture. A project.

Sinead O'Connor and Roger Waters in Mother... Powerful.

The 4th annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards recognize and reward public libraries for being the unsung heroes of New York—nominate your local library today and it could win $20,000! This year, six NYC public library branches will be awarded $20,000 each. Celebrate your amazing neighborhood libraries and share your stories by nominating an NYPL branch! http://on.nypl.org/nyclibawards

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Photo by @mahogany716

The Rolling Stones "At the Max", 1990...

Afghanistan - Museum's role in fostering georeferenced cultural heritage information surveys. A presentation by Alessandro Califano (OSACA, Kabul) at the Muzeum@Digit Conference 2016 (Budapest, National Museum, 22-23 November 2016).

"...Alors, aux soirs de lassitude Tout en peuplant sa solitude Des fantômes du souvenir On pleure les lêvres absentes De toutes ces belles passantes Que l'on n'a pas su retenir." Les Passantes, a poem by Antoine Pol, sung by Georges Brassens (31 May 1979).

The Rolling Stones, Desert Trip 2016 - full concert video...

Le prix Nobel de littérature 2016 est décerné à Bob Dylan Le Monde

What do archivists do? What do you think is the coolest item in your collection? Why are archives important?

Want to know more about the Museum and what our archives hold? Tomorrow is Ask An Archivist Day and we will be answering your questions from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Follow along on Twitter and send us your questions.

Image: Reading Room in Memorial Hall

Berlin 2007. Mark Knopfler playing “Brothers in arms”. Thanks to my friend Adriano de Zolt for providing the link to this.

“Kabul - man, woman, and child”, shot by Alessandro Califano (16 september 2010), CC Attribution 4.0 International License.

A very nice song, originally composed for Demis Roussos, here sung by Kids United in a UNICEF action...

“The Man Who Cut His Own Life Line (Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese)" - installation and picture by Alessandro Califano, 2016 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International), for L’Archive aux Arts, Vienne (Isère, France).

"Palm trees and water". Villa Torlonia, Rome. Shot on 29 July 2016. Some rights reserved - CC BY Alessandro Califano 2016

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This strongly remjnds me of the virtual reality setting in “Guerreros” (William Gibson, 2007)…

A glimpse of one of the next exhibitions at L'Archive aux Arts in Vienne (Isère, France): "pictures from Central Asia" (2006-2013), by Alessandro Califano...