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Dan Williams: When Should I Visit?
“The data used to calculate when museums are quiet is gathered from foursquare. Foursquare is designed to show popular trending places or where your friends are. I instead used it for antisocial purposes. A small cron job checks the /herenow endpoint in the foursquare api a few times an hour. The number of people present is logged for each venue that is tracked. Once a week these checkins are aggregated and passed to the frontend web application hosted on Heroku. The graphs are generated in SVG using Raphael in the browser.”
museum  tourism  socialnetworking 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
MoMA.org: The Collection
This is fun to browse through. "From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The Museum's Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum's building and grounds."
moma  art  design  photography  history  refreence  images  drawing  museum  modern  nyc  collection  archive 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
The Gallerie Abominate
The worst 3D renderings ever rendered. "Why? What is the point? Images like this just scare me. Where's the motive, whats the purpose."
3d  museum  animals  design  humor  art 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Pharyngula: The Creation Museum
"Ken Ham and his organization, Answers in Genesis, have created a glossy simulacrum of a museum, a slick imitation of a scientific enterprise veneered over long disproved religious fables..."
creationism  religion  evolution  science  museum  atheism 
may 2007 by matthewmcvickar

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