The austere grey exterior of York Minster, in the City of York, is a famous medieval landmark. Patrice Warrener and Tim Blake have created a new vision of the building; a colourful play on gothic architecture, projected onto the building itself. Photographer Daniel M. German captured the event on his website. Given Britain’s rich architectural heritage, it’s good to see people interacting with and having fun with it.
My visits to France and Belgium have shown that they are not afraid of interacting with historic buildings in new and interesting ways, often using lighting techniques, but we remain quite reserved in the UK. In France, it’s quite common to see “son et lumiéres” advertised, with illuminated chateaux and woodland walks. Heritage shouldn’t always be a museum…
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David J. Knight has begun to publish some of his fantastic prose on his website. “Site” was written in 1997 and begins thus:
There were four of us on the unsheltered top of a hill. The high winds took the sounds of our shovelling away. The damp sand was robbed from each shovel-load and scattered onto the cleaned earth. The flints toppled into the wheelbarrows but the little bangs and scraping noises were also muffled by the wind.
Dark clouds rolled heavily from behind us and over the valleys to our side. Rain had come earlier with hailstones driven into the earth. Puddles and mud made wheeling the barrows onto the squelchy spoil-tip a chore. It was not raining now, but wind-swept sprinklings from where it was flew horizontally in the constant gusts.
The story might will be familiar to many field archaeologists and will give others a taste of what it can be like. Archaeology is not all treasure and glory, as you will see from this short story.
Read the rest of “Site“.
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Apple have just announced iWeb, their personal website tool, as a new member of the iLife family of applications. According to the live text commentary from MacRumors, it is just like RapidWeaver and Sandvox: template-driven, drag and drop software that makes it easy to build a simple website.
Is this bad for Realmac Software and Karelia? Perhaps. This new iLife ‘06 tool could, on the other hand, be the stimulus for new innovation through competition. You never know…
Good luck to Karelia and Realmac!
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Karelia have just released their first public beta of the long-awaited Sandvox website creation software, ahead of recent rumours that Apple releasing similar software entitled “iWeb” tomorrow, which could (well, will) threaten their new venture. For their sake, I hope the rumours are untrue. Karelia have been shot down once before when Apple, who developed a clone of their popular “Watson” internet search software, by developing their own, entitled “Sherlock“, and gave it away for free. The full story is available on their blog.
To return to the release of Sandvox, I have had a brief play with it, and if you’re a Mac user and run a small website you must give it a go. This is the closest piece of web design software to WYSIWYG nirvana that I have seen. It uses Apple’s editable WebKit, and CoreImage, to great effect - no ‘blind’ preview pages with cumbersome preview stages, but pure in-place editing. The supplied templates contain some elegant designs as well as some awful ones - but that’s just down to personal taste.
Bear in mind that this is a beta, and there are no instructions bar a basic introduction, but do go ahead and download it. Give them your support!
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Tehmina (my gorgeous wife!) has started blogging. Tehm is an historian, museums specialist, and regular commenter on Past Thinking (normally correcting my slip-ups). She’s written books too! Expect her blog to be wonderfully written, and to cover topics such as “Life, history, beauty, oranges”.
According to her it’s “one small leap for one small woman” - so go forth and read!
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Acoustic archaeology specialist and musician David J. Knight has begun blogging on his “Archaeology Soapbox“. David’s first post deals with “Archaeology and Music: Two Recording Industries“, which explores potential connections between the two.
This part relates to the Music Industry. Since about 1992 I’ve been playing with the idea of an alternative industry that would more easily facilitate links between Archaeological practice and theory with Sound and Hearing.
Keep an eye on his blog - he’s got some interesting ideas up his sleeve. Participation and debate from any interested parties is positively encouraged on David’s blog!
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I have just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0. If you notice any hiccoughs with the site - please let me know!
[Update] After some plugin weirdness (Spam Karma 2) all seems to be working again.
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