Archive for February, 2011

If I Think Cezanne, originally uploaded by SD STUDIOs*.


Leymarie, Jean. Watercolours, from Dürer to Balthus. 1984 Editions d’Art Albert Skira S.A., Geneva


Google banners

11Feb11

I love what Google does with their banners. They are a delight. I’m glad that they are archiving them <http://www.google.com/logos/&gt;. Of course, there is sometimes some accidental irony, like during the winter Olympics in 2010 when they posted the luge theme. It was the day after the tragic accident that resulted in the death of […]


The storyteller

10Feb11

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer. ~Walt Disney


For one of the courses I was helping develop in the field of heritage resources management, I did a survey of the many, many, sites created in partnership with the Virtual Museum of Canada <http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/&gt;. There were a lot of sites that did not interest me—and that were getting a little dated by current internet […]