February 2012
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Book Release Causes Frenzy →
A link to Blake Andrews’ most recent post where he again makes fun of the current mania of photo book collecting where out-of-print books are bid up to exceptional price levels. The post is about so called “Steidlheads” who are “panicking to get to the front of the line” to buy the upcoming release of Broken Manual by acclaimed photographer Alec Soth in order to sell...
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NWO awards 600,000 euros to develop research and... →
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Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’ and Geography →
Matt Johnston plotted all locations from Uncommmon Places into a google map:
I was keen to look at the locations of the original images in the 1982 publication as I had been noticing so many Texas, Florida and California locations that I wondered how the spread of images fell across a map.
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Integrating the dojo.gantt widget with Alfresco...
Last week I received an e-mail from an Alfresco developer with a question about integrating dojox.gantt with Alfresco. The dojox.gantt widget is part of the popular Dojo Toolkit and provides an integrated widget for project and resource management.
I never used the Dojo Toolkit before, but I decided to give it a try and I must say that it is a poweful framework for web application development. In...
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A Review/Conversation about Broken Manual with... →
Interesting discussion about the Broken Manual exhibition by photographer Alec Soth at Sean Kelly Gallery. Great way to report on a show.
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FT Magazine: Paul Graham: ‘The Present’ →
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Slow Art: Daan van Golden at De Hallen Haarlem
At De Hallen Haarlem there is a restrospective exhibition about the Dutch artist Daan van Golden (1936). The exhibition is not large and focuses on painting. There is one series of five photographs of pen drawings, but other than that there are no photographs. Besides painting, photography is an import medium in the work of Van Golden.
Among the works on display are paintings from his...
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Alfresco will end support for the AVM →
Today Jeff Potts, Alfresco’s Chief Community Officer, writes on Social Content that the Alfresco AVM (Alternative Versioning Model) will no longer be supported from Alfresco 5. The AVM was an alternative repository implementation in Alfresco to support Web Content Management use cases. It was designed as some sort of version control system with support for repository virtualization. It was...