It’s an overcast, but vaguely warm Friday morning here in North Dakotaland. We managed to miss the storms this week and had only a few inches on a blustery and snowy weekend. As spring sits poised on the horizon, we are starting to hope just a tiny bit that we have survived the most mild winter in living memory.
As hope springs eternal, I offer a few varia and quick hits:
- The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is streaming its annual meeting this afternoon at 11 CST. Clemente Marconi (James R. McCredie Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) offers the annual lecture, “New Investigations on the Akropolis of Selinunte, Sicily: The Archaeology of a Greek Colony in the West”. And Jack Davis (Director, ASCSA) will review the work of the School in 2011.
- As well all knew all along: map is not territory. Check out how Google Maps almost caused a war.
- I’ve always considered 8 hours of sleep a night is for the weak, but now, perhaps studies confirm this.
- Is there a movie about the past that historians actually like?
- Meanwhile, Theodor Mommsen says “Hey girl”.
- And Grammar Girl asks “Where are you at?”.
- The remarkable decline and fall of TechCrunch.
- A documentary on Jean Reatard: Better Than Something: Jay Reatard. It’ll be screening at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio with an introduction by Eric Davidson. Davidson is a member of the New Bomb Turks – an Columbus, Ohio institution – who has written We Never Learn, 1988-2001 about cats like Reatard, the White Stripes, the Oblivians, et c. I listened to a ton of Reatard this summer while assisting Scott Moore in the Polis Archives. Don’t tell anyone.
- Very efficient use of urban space.
- Nick Feltron has published a Biennial Report for 2010/2011. It’s an event.
- There is a good bit of buzz about two new television shows that appear to glamorize looting activities at historic sites in the U.S. One is on Spike TV who have often used fake shows to generate viral marketing for their otherwise unremarkable programing. In fact, I think this is a new technique that many niche cable channels use. So I won’t like to the shows, but I will link to the response from the Archaeological Institute of America’s response.
- My wife FINALLY let me get an iPhone. I am still getting it set up. Richard Rothaus has had a couple of good posts last week on his digital workflow in the archives. It’s pretty impressive, I need to up my game.
- Via the same Rothaus: The Lively Morgue (photos from the NYTimes).
- A new article on Twitter in the classroom.
- I definitely think that R. Scott Moore needs to get PKAP a light field photography camera.
- Page views this week: New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World = 636 views; Corinthian Matters = 882. (Total Page Views: New Archaeology = 30,111; Corinthian Matters = 28,736). It’s only a matter of time.
- Sexy private libraries.
- What I’m reading: P. R. Mullins, The Archaeology of Consumer Culture. (2011).
- What I’m listening to: Lambchop, Mr. M.; Field Music, Plumb.
