I spent an hour this morning adding description fields to the CONTENTdm collection, “The Gallery Has A Posse.” I finished the first of 22 pages of images; 21 more to go. Fifty images per page. Good job!
Slim pickins’ in NYC today
Four hours this afternoon scavenging in the lower east side yielded few new stickers and next to nothing in terms of political stickers regarding the 2008 election. I got a great sticker about Sarah Palin, but really, during the entire day we saw only 1-2 stickers about McCain and 1-2 about Obama. There was an Obey-like wheatpasted poster of Palin that I’ll post a picture of later. Very tasty.
Where is the magic SLEEP FAIRY when you need him/her?!!!!
Hello, sticker ninjas of the world. I woke up at 3:00 a.m. to find the wood stove had died out, ERGH. if I do end up heading south for break, I’ll keep you posted on the stickerkttty front!
A post-election daze
Oh boy. I’m still reeling from last week’s election. God bless the United States of America for electing Barack Obama to be our 44th American President. I really wish my Dad could have been alive to see this happen. He’d be all proud and puffed up, but also humble==the American Civil Rights movement defined him as a young man, and I hope that he is able to see this happening from wherever he is. We have a new SLU CONTENTdm sticker ninja on board, however–Alex Collins!! Alex will be helping with metadata for now. W00t! For a good read, check…
A Brief Update
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Carole and I (and Arline) met with Library folks today to have a conference call with Rice from iii about the new Encore discovery tool that the Library is implementing. It has caused us Gallery folk to re-map certain CONTENTdm fields to Dublin Core, and I liked how Rice called it “dumbing down” a field. How true. Plus Dublin Core omits several fields that would be important in a museum/gallery context. There were several other issues to discuss, inc. which fields to include in the Encore record, etc. It’s really super-fascinating (i.e., NOT!). Kevin, I still need to resolve your…
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Amy showed me how to do widgets. You can now subscribe to Stickerkitty! Thanks, Amy and Penns!
Misc. update
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I have three new sticker ninjas working on metadata this fall, Kat Dwyer ’11, Bridget Montesanti ’11, and Amanda Raddtaz ’11. All very sharp gals. Hi, ninjas!! Kevin, I will email tomorrow with an update on $$ details. Correction from Nat: Punjabi taxi driver, not Pakistani. Susan Jane Williams, independent consultant/data specialist, came to campus for two days. Ouch! My head is spinning. We are going to start using a combination of FilemakerPro, Vcat, Excel, and XML for metadata (I think). The whole thing is a blur. Ha. Just kidding. It’s kind of fun.
Pictoplasma in NYC, September 4-6, 2008
After going to Pictoplasma in Berlin in 2006, I had to attend the 2008 conference so close in NYC. Most of the events were held at NYU’s handsome Skirball Center. My favorite lecture was by Akinori Oishi (who goes by “Aki”). I asked if he’d consider doing an exhibition at SLU, so I’ll follow up with him via email in the weeks ahead. Melissa and Carole helped out big-time collecting stickers on Thursday afternoon–115 in all! Not much political stuff yet, which surprised me. But a few gems, nonetheless. Check out my Flickr site for more images (coming soon!).
Kevin is off to Amsterdam!
Our dear Kevin Carvill ’10 is off to Amsterdam for the fall semester. Bugger! He was such a great trooper this summer, scanning over 1,300 stickers for The Gallery Has A Posse. We now have Tristan Wolfe ’08 on board, who seemed mildly interested yesterday when I showed him the project. He started to research TOWER from Berlin (tagger). I hope that Kevin will be able to pull together an exhibition next spring based on his sticker exploits abroad. Lots of details to figure out beforehand, tho. Maybe CM and I will need to do a site visit….
New additions to The Posse
CM and I loaded 253 digital sticker files into The Gallery Has A Posse, my CONTENTdm online collection of art stickers from around the world. I have lots to do ahead with metadata, much less research and writing. I can get a student or two to help with the metadata this fall. Here is a screen shot; take a look at the number 798 in red in the upper left hand corner! Our new total!!!!! All of the stickers with k01, k02, k03, etc. are the ones Kevin scanned, and those are the ones I’ll need help with. Yipes!