Link Love: 12/7/2012
- For music fans, the Library of Congress announced a new digital collection of interviews conducted by Joe Smith of a variety of music icons such as Ray Charles, Barbara Streisand, and Paul McCartney. [via InfoDocket]
- Triumph and tragedy, the brave spidernaut that spent 99 days in space and who landed in the National Museum of Natural History's Insect Zoo sadly died this past Monday of natural causes. [via The Torch, SI]
- The Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age exhibition at the Harold F. Johnson Library at Hampshire College examined some of the new approaches to artists books that meld the analog and digital. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- How do you make a 6-foot photographic negative? Why you build the world's largest film camera of course. The camera was created and being used by photographer Dennis Manarchy's Vanishing Cultures project. [via PetaPixel]
- The State Archives of North Carolina has launched a beta version of its new Social Media Archive, that provides access to more than 55,000 public records of Facebook and Twitter communications from state agencies across North Carolina. [via InfoDocket]
- Still images can have a life of their own as can be seen in this video done using still photographs from the World Wildlife Fund archives. [via PetaPixel]
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The WWF video was made entirely from still photos--and it is absolutely wonderful! As a filmmaker myself, I’m impressed by the craft, the pace/timing and the overall esthetic taste that went into making this low-budget--but surprisingly stunning--video. They obviously relied heavily on Photoshop to make it, but then also used After Effects, working with multiple layers to create the illusion of movement captured on film. Great stuff!
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