Key Pages:
Archaeology in the 'Information Age'
Course Schedule
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Course Projects
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Other Pixel-Based Resources
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References
The Bristol Path
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Dead Buildings of Providence
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]
Email: ajbravo at brown dot edu AIM: mightyhal
Week 2, Feb. 2: McLuhan Part 2
Week 3, Feb. 9: Eisenstein Part 3
Week 5, Mar. 2: Manovich (the Mac lover)
Lantern Slides. Click here for the Final Project Proposal
Micro-Project 1: Blog Entry: Julian's Spin Doctor
Micro-Project 2: Zoomify: Dead Buildings of Providence
Originally, I'm from Rhode Island and Texas (grew up in RI and then moved to Texas just early enough to it confusing), and earned my B.A. in 2004 n Economics and Classics. I'm in my third year in the graduate program in Classics, completing my Master's this semester. Fourth and fifth century Roman (political and military) history interest me, as does archaeology.. I've always been fascinated by how things work (and why they sometimes don't), and as a result I like to focus on ancient technology, construction, and engineering (as well as modern)--I suspect I'm really an engineer at heart--or perhaps a librarian, since I love databases and information systems.
I'm writing my Master's Thesis in Classics on the historicity (or lack thereof?) in the speeches of Ammianus Marcellinus's Res Gestae. Ammianus was the last great Roman historian, writing in the A.D. 4th century, and his extant work covers from the late 350s to 378, including several incidents which he himself was a participant. It's a pretty good read (Ammianus, not my thesis!).
200 million abandoned blogs...
Clinton vs. Obama, 1984 style.. people have too much free time
Newest links (I think some of the Wired bloggers are reading our syllabus):
Adobe working on software to detect Photoshop forgeries
A collection of famous photo-forgeries, including Stalin
Last week and earlier:
Snacklash -- How we're not turning into a snack culture for entertainment
RFID and the new digital divide
If you want to see what Manovich (Chap. 2) means my the "sterility and boldness of the original 1984 version of the Mac GUI interface check out the Lisa video (it's pretty neat) and the GUI museum:
The Lisa computer -- 2 videos, one with Kevin Costner (seriously)
A transcribed version of the Lisa video
A near-complete (and well-designed) gallery/museum of GUI
Posted at Mar 28/2007 09:32AM:
chris witmore: Hi Adam. How is the final project progressing. Also where is the short description of your first Micro Project?
Posted at May 04/2007 06:47PM:
Chris Witmore: http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/resources/lanternslides