July 20, 2012
Paul Gooding of University College London talks about The Art of Google Books at DH2012 as part of his lecture The Myth of the New: Mass Digitization, Distant Reading and the Future of the Book. This I quite like. It’s a Tumblr called The Art of Google Books, which is great. It just basically invites people to troll Google Books, finding random pages that just went wrong. And this is an example: you can see the fingers down at the bottom of the page of the person who is doing it and it looks like they’re looking after the book, because they’ve got thimbles on, which is nice, but the page is basically useless. You can’t go back. This is a basket case. You can’t OCR that, ever. 

Paul Gooding of University College London talks about The Art of Google Books at DH2012 as part of his lecture The Myth of the New: Mass Digitization, Distant Reading and the Future of the Book.

This I quite like. It’s a Tumblr called The Art of Google Books, which is great. It just basically invites people to troll Google Books, finding random pages that just went wrong.

And this is an example: you can see the fingers down at the bottom of the page of the person who is doing it and it looks like they’re looking after the book, because they’ve got thimbles on, which is nice, but the page is basically useless. You can’t go back. This is a basket case. You can’t OCR that, ever. 

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Filed under: Google Books digitization DH2012 Paul Gooding UCL University College London Digital Humanities 2012 digital humanities 
June 22, 2012
kcarenwilson: Detritus: Poems from the Thames Foreshore Krissy Wilson is searching for textual artifacts in London’s river midden and assembling them into public, mosaic poems. This is the process blog for my forthcoming Fulbright application, and it features a pique assiette mix of found objects, Victorian perspective on the Thames mudlarkers, folk art, tales of beachcombers worldwide, memoryware, and textual mosaic.  Mosaic artists, poets, Londoners, beachcombers, anthropologists, and scholars of all kinds: I’d like for you to check out my latest project and I’d like even better to collaborate with you. 

kcarenwilson:

Detritus: Poems from the Thames Foreshore Krissy Wilson is searching for textual artifacts in London’s river midden and assembling them into public, mosaic poems.

This is the process blog for my forthcoming Fulbright application, and it features a pique assiette mix of found objects, Victorian perspective on the Thames mudlarkers, folk art, tales of beachcombers worldwide, memoryware, and textual mosaic. 

Mosaic artists, poets, Londoners, beachcombers, anthropologists, and scholars of all kinds: I’d like for you to check out my latest project and I’d like even better to collaborate with you. 

(via krissywilson)

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Filed under: London Thames foreshore mudlarking Fulbright mosaic poetry SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago Victorian folk art beachcombing memoryware text poem art lit books anthropology University College London