Internet Silent on New Media Art
27 Apr 2011
Would Anyone Care To Listen For Just ‘One Week’?
Late the other night, there was an interesting discussion among friends about rare and old films. Everyone has their favorites — many are long out of print, or just plain hard to find. Among my personal favorites is Buster Keaton’s One Week, embedded above. It paints a hilarious picture of Buster and his newlywed Sybil putting together their portable house. Now, that’s Media Art definitely worth preserving!
[Found at the Internet Archive, part of the collection: Silent Films]
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Those of us unfamiliar with the term ‘petabyte’ will be surprised to learn that a petabyte is a measurement of data equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. A million gigabytes, a billion megabytes — or simply Tons o’ Data. . . The Internet Archive has a few of them stored within its digital library of websites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
May is International Museum Day
4 May 2011
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The ICOM theme for this year is ‘Museum and Memory.’
Doors Open Winnipeg is a free public event, organized by Heritage Winnipeg during the month of May. This year is the 8th annual happening, and takes place on the weekend of May 28 and 29, 2011.
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