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Why Dior is a more important designer than Chanel — Times Labs...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:38:37 +0000

Why Dior is a more important designer than Chanel — Times Labs Blog

Visualizing curatorial departments « Museum Pipes What...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:37:23 +0000

Visualizing curatorial departments « Museum Pipes

What media are represented in American Paintings and Sculpture?

(Lots of other visualisation of museum collection available at the link)

Artabase Editorial » Craft Victoria gift guide

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:36:38 +0000

Artabase Editorial » Craft Victoria gift guide

riotclitshave:

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:33:11 +0000

riotclitshave:

ShareSomeCandy: jeff lieberman

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:49:19 +0000

ShareSomeCandy: jeff lieberman

(via SophieFoundation)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:43:51 +0000

(via SophieFoundation)

Hunter Cross – 193%

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:58:36 +0000

Hunter Cross – 193%

A Message from the Ministry of Information (via BentleyCoon) ...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:57:36 +0000

A Message from the Ministry of Information (via BentleyCoon)

GLYPH – Intro

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:07 +0000

(Cross posted to newcurator.com)

I started writing this as part of NaNoWriMo. I missed a few days because of travel and illness and became so far behind the daily requirement that I basically gave up on hitting 50,000 by the end of November. What I have done is about 11k words and I’ve hit a bit of a wall in the plot.

Here’s is the opening paragraph. Like all good NaNoWriMo projects, it’s rough, full of spelling mistakes and could do with some serious editing. I think I put part of this up here to (a) amuse me and (b) to fill out the time where posts have been lacking. It may also start some thoughts about what on Earth I do with it.

Without further ado – GLYPH: Chapter One

Ben Talisman’s 120th birthday was about a month away and the feeling coming from deep within his bones told him that retirement was rapidly approaching. He had been working at the museum for ninety years, serving as Head Curator for the past forty. Today would be the 50th budget meeting at Civic Centre he was summoned to. Every year, he walked alone with his craggy face set in a graven stare. He used this time to go over his strategy. It took an incredible amount of planning and research to make sure the museum wasn’t shut down or ransacked for financial reasons. The first few meeting, Talisman had relied upon presenting all the good work and all the beneficial effects the museum had. After one close call where the museum was saved from closure within the last forty-eight hours, Talisman took to gaining advantages from researching whoever was the current Portfolio Direktor.

The strategy had worked so far. The problem was no reason or excuse could be used twice. The trick was to stun the bureaucratic system whilst getting the desired result from whoever had the authority to sign off on the budget. This meant these meetings had become increasingly bizarre. One year, Talisman had planted false evidence in the Direktor’s house to suggest that his wife was a keen patron of the museum. He did this when he found out that the Direktor’s brave face hid a deep neurosis over his wife’s death six years previously. Another time, Talisman had found the Direktor was addicted to a rare hallucinogenic made from the sweat glands of poisoned West African Children, so he conducted the entire meeting dressed as a reptilian archangel sent by a Pulsar God from the other side of the Cosmos.