Beauty simplified
This past Sunday I was walking home after logging some hours in the Hinds Hall computer lab. It was dark, quiet and cold. There was a little bit of wind, but otherwise a pretty standard cold winter night and a relatively empty campus.
As I traveled between Hinds Hall and Bird Library, I had one of those ‘stop and smell the roses’ moments. To my left was the snow-covered rolling hill that serves simultaneously as Hinds Hall’s backyard, the Hall of Languages’ front yard, and the buffer between those buildings and the road that Bird Library and the Schine Student Center reside on.
There was a lot going on. Continued…
Posted in Design, Information, Nature, Syracuse University.
Tagged with Art, Coursework, Information, Outdoors.
By Josh Kitlas
– February 15, 2011
Google does it again! Combination of Google Maps street view and the inside of various museums around the world.
Posted in Art, Technology.
Tagged with Amazing, Art, Interesting, Technology, Travel.
By Josh Kitlas
– February 10, 2011
Aufbruch - Breakup By dolorix
It’s been a rocky relationship, and now it’s over. You really thought doubling the monthly rate would keep customers around? Later.
I’m gonna give BackBlaze a shot ….
Posted in Business, Design.
Tagged with Amazing, Annoying, Business, Customer Service, Knowledge, Technology.
By Josh Kitlas
– February 4, 2011
48:365 World Autism Awareness Day by Matt Beckwith
I, like many others, have been profoundly impacted by Autism. For me, it was the son of a co-worker who opened my eyes to the disorder. He is a very awesome kid who I fortunately was able to spend some quality time with. I watched him mature from a boy who would ask for food or water by taking you by the hand and putting it on the refrigerator or cupboard, to a pretty regular teenager who complained about mowing the lawn (I supervised) and loved to dance to reggae music (his lead). We’ve since moved out of visiting range (different continents) but I think about him every single day.
I put together this comprehensive list of autism resources as part of coursework for IST605 – Information Resources – Users & Services with my young friend in mind. It’s divided into a number of sections:
Authoritative Internet Resources
Audio Visual Resources
Print Resources
Database Resources
Sources for Ready Reference Continued…
Posted in Health, Library, Nature, Syracuse University.
Tagged with Coursework, Health, Interesting, Knowledge, Library.
By Josh Kitlas
– February 3, 2011
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Sara Naim - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
As if my mind hasn’t expanded enough through all the readings, exercises, lectures and related course material. I was flat-out bowled over when I came across the work of Sara Naim.
She photographs sounds.
Crazy, right? Sara is an internationally-acclaimed photographer who, as you could imagine, is doing some pretty interesting work. Her photography of sounds was part of a study she did of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
From her site:
This body of work looks at translating sound into a photographic image. Ludwig Van Beethoven’s symphony vibrates through milk. He composed this piece in the early 1800’s for his blind pupil and lover, Giuletta Gucciardi. Gucciardi said to Beethoven that she wished she could see the moonlight. Beethoven then composed a piece about the moonlight’s reflection off Austria’s Lake Lucerne, called Moonlight Sonata.
What she does really changes the perceptions Continued…
Posted in Art, Information, Nature, Style, Syracuse University, Technology.
Tagged with Amazing, Art, Coursework, Information, Interesting, Knowledge.
By Josh Kitlas
– January 31, 2011
