Posted in Online Resources, Video/DVD, tagged Academic Film Archive of North America, animation, butterflies, Couperin, dragonflies, film, Internet Archive, Philip Starr on April 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
AFANA is an organization dedicated to acquiring, promoting and preserving academic film and other historically important films in the fields of art, history, social science, literature and science. With the help of the Internet Archive, they are preserving some truly hidden gems of non-feature film making in the U.S. Check out their website.
One of my favorite films is this lovely little animation of butterflies and dragonflies set to the music of the French Baroque composer Francois Couperin.
Posted in Online Resources, tagged American Civil War, ballet, Bowery, cold war, Image Magazine, Internet Archive, medieval, New York, Richard Prince, V&A, Yeats on April 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There are so many hundreds of art and humanities-related sites out there, that we thought it would be good to have a monthly listing of the ones we like best. We will bookmark them in del.icio.us, and you’ll be able to see them all, not just the more recent. Here is our choice for the month of April:
Fine Art
Life of a City: Early Films of New York
Open Source Movies on the Internet Archive
Design
Victoria and Albert Museum Object Database
Costume Ornamentation at New York City Ballet
Cold War Modern Design, 1945-1970
Liberal Arts
The Chinese in California [Library of Congress]
Tate Shots ARTstor Blog
RISD VR Blog 