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Gregg Dunn: Neuroscience Painting

Aug 11

1. Cerebellar Lobe

Gregg Dunn, neuroscientist, is a lover of Japanese Edo scroll and screen painting. He discovered that the elegant forms of neurons in our brains can be painted expressively in the ‘sumi-e’ style. Neurons may be tiny in scale, but they clearly posess the same beauty seen in traditional forms of far eastern minimalist painting traditions. Dunn offers a unique persepective to our ‘skull tissues’ of neurons, glial flares, hippocampus, the cortex, synapses, and ganglion. Take a look.

Carl Gustav Jung: An Extraordinary Journey. 1957

Aug 10

In this candid 1957 interview, conducted just four years prior to his death, influential thinker and founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung discusses his remarkable life and career – from early work with Sigmund Freud and Jung’s break with psychoanalysis to his groundbreaking explorations of the dream world. Guided by insightful interviewer Richard I. Evans, this conversation is at once an intimate self-portrait and a unique commentary on the scope and meaning of his life’s work.

PhD Scholarships – Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. 2013

Aug 10

International applications are welcome. The ICS is interested in projects in the following areas: Cities and Urban Cultures | Intercultural Dialogue and Transnational Culture | Institutions, Governance and Citizenship | Cultural Economy and Globalisation | Heritage, Environment and Society | Digital Research and Cultural Transformation | Australian Cultural Fields | Culture and Education. Candidates with backgrounds in media and communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, cultural history, Asian studies and other disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Offer: Tax-free stipend of AUD33,728 per annum (with an increase for 2013) and a funded place in the doctoral degree.

Rare mugshots of petty thieves from Newcastle, UK. 1872-1873

Aug 05

Alice Mullholland, 18, was a street trader who was sentenced to three months in Newcastle Goal for stealing boots.

The list of thefts committed was ominous enough, ranging from stealing of rabbits, beef, pigeons to clothes, tobacco and bed linen. In a fascinating record of early police portraiture, these men and women look into the new technology enabled apparatus sans hope, regret or amusement. Still proud, one can clearly see how they might have been asked by the cameraman to meet the ‘posing protocol’ of Victorian representation, hands/fingers locked. Not all of them care for protocol though. Take a sepia tinted look, courtesy the Tyne & Wear Archives.

Jan Švankmajer: Animation Shorts II

Aug 05

I am a great admirer of Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. I wish not to put a label to his work, but very often the tag ‘surrealism’ comes into play in describing his ‘super-real’ and very often, irreverent and thematically dark animation. Living and practicing his film craft throughout in his native Prague in the Czech Republic, Švankmajer’s vision of the world is uncoloured by chewing gum commercial imperatives. Which is, a good thing. Take a look.

Tribal Tech: Elvis At The Hop. 1991

Aug 05

Tribal Tech - Elvis At The Hop

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1991. Scott Henderson: Guitars, Guitar synthesizer | Gary Willis: Bass, Bass synthesizer | David Goldblatt: Keyboards | Joey Heredia: Drums | Brad Dutz: Percussion

Smithsonian’s 9th Annual Photo Competition: Finalists

Aug 01

1. Kyaw Kyaw Winn in Myanmar.

14,000 plus photographers, 109 countries, 50 finalists. The entries for the Smithsonian’s 9th Annual Photo Competition were spread across five categories: Altered Images, Americana, the Natural World, People, and Travel. Here is a sampling of some of the final shortlisted entries.

Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School. 1978

Jul 30

In this rare televised broadcast from February 2, 1978, the philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse explains how the Frankfurt School re-evaluated Marxism when world economic crisis failed to destroy capitalism as predicted by Marx. He also analyses the philosophical roots of the student rebellions of the sixties. Its intruiging to see Marcuse explain his philosophical and political positioning. (Split into five parts. Language is English.)

International Post Graduate Research Scholarships, University of Adelaide. 2013

Jul 30

The University of Adelaide (Estd. 1874), Australia, offers a scholarships scheme for international students undertaking postgraduate research study. Its purpose is to attract high quality overseas postgraduate students to areas of research strength in the University of Adelaide to support its research effort.

The scholarship provides:

Course tuition fees for two years for a Masters degree by Research and three years for a Doctoral research degree (an extension is possible for doctoral programs only);
An annual living allowance of approximately $23,728 (2012 value) for the normal duration of the program.

A million years of human ingenuity: Objects of the world

Jul 24

BBC Radio 4 took a hundred man made objects (from across the ages), that were a part of the British Museum collection and translated these into one hundred radio programmes, each tackling one object and lasting fifteen minutes each. These were broadcast in a chronological order in three tranches across 2010. Take a look at some of these objects and (probably) feel good that you are human.