The Curator's Journey.

Sensory Experience of Objects.

'Happy Friday' and Media Mentions.

Bedtime Reading: Just finishing 'The Hardboiled Detective: Stories from Black Mask Magazine 1920-1951'.
Museology: Google Art Project's 'Collections page' features links to online image collections made available by museums from all over the world: http://www.googleartproject.com/en-gb/collections/

 Films: Pegg's latest looks wonderfully silly: 'The World's End', impending release 1 July 2013:

Recently watched 'Witness for the Prosecution' (1957) again--brilliant film.

 Music: Public Service Broadcasting's new album, 'Inform-Educate-Entertain' has been released! (PSB is also sellling lovely-looking tea towels.) http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

Here is another one of PSB's videos--'Spitfire'. (I have always had a bit of a crush on Leslie Howard.)

Museum Studies Reading of the Week: Unpacking the Collection (2011)

Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum; Byrne-Clarke-Harrison-Torrence, eds.

 

Animator Ray Harryhausen, Age 92, Passed Away 7 May 2013.

Obituary for Ray Harryhausen, brilliant stop-motion animator and artist:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/07/ray-harryhausen-dies

http://youtu.be/U9kmjW73-v4
Someone's YouTube video compilation of Harryhausen's creatures/creations:

More Denizens of the Backyard.

While I know they are meant to be viewed as slime-trailing pests only rivaled by sheep in their ability to voraciously consume ambient greenery but we never had them where I grew up so . . . the common garden snail is quite novel and interesting to me. Or perhaps I am simply finding any excuse to take a momentary break from my research and enjoy the lovely weather. Nah. Couldn't be that . . .

Getting Back to Work . . .

Easing my way back into 'research mode' after a long and pleasant bank holiday weekend by maintaining my 'May Day' resolution and trying to provide a journal post for every day. Not perhaps my most inspired journal entry . . . Here, have a link to somewhere more interesting:

http://youtu.be/FgH9OxjXPdg
Mark Steel's lecture about De Vinci: