General Interest
http://library.albany.edu/imc/tutimages.htm
Confused by how to get better photos with your digital camera? Intrigued by the thought of learning more about Photoshop? The fine folks at the Interactive Media Center at the State University of New York, University of Albany cover these topics (and many more) on this site. The materials here were originally created to assist students at the university, but they are now available for the general public as well. There are over two dozen mini-tutorials here, and they include "Photoshop CS4: Basic Tips & Tricks," "Create Text Filled with a Photograph in Photoshop," and "Ten Tips for Using Images on the Web." There are also a number of "See It In Action" interactive demonstrations that show interested parties how to use the Photoshop crop tool and how to reset photo resolutions on Photoshop for printing. [KMG]
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=industry&col_id=186
This remarkable collection from the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery has historic photographs of aqueducts, sewers, and other essentials that make up the Big Apple's infrastructure. The collection brings together over 600 images that document mass transit proposals and projects dating from 1867. Visitors can make their way through images of the construction of the Holland Tunnel, the multi-county Catskill Aqueduct system, and so on. Some of these materials come from books such as "Interborough Rapid Transit," which was published in 1904. Visitors can browse around at their leisure, or they can also type in their own search terms, like tunnels, railroads, and dams. The site is rounded by the Related Subjects link, which allows visitors to look through related collections created by the Library's Digital Gallery. [KMG]
http://www.globaljournalist.org/
To experience the world of high quality reporting from North Korea, meditations on the state of journalism, and a wide range of other stories, direct your browser to the Global Journalist website. Originally created for the International Press Institute in 1995, the publication moved to the Missouri School of Journalism in 1999. Today, journalism students work with staff members to produce content for the site and its accompanying radio show, which is broadcast on KBIA, central Missouri's NPR affiliate. With funding provided in part by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the people at the Global Journalist provide users with current and archived radio shows on the homepage. After listening to a few recent stories, interested parties may wish to click on the Free Press Watch section. Here they can use the interactive map to learn about various transgressions committed against members of the press around the world. Also, users shouldn't miss the Blogs area, which contains links to high-quality news blogs from "Persian Letters" (billed as "a window into Iranian politics and society") to the Guardian's "Newsblog." [KMG]
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/afamoh/
Telling the story of Louisville's African American community is an ambitious goal, and the University of Louisville's Oral History Center has done a fine job with this website. The process began in the 1970s with funding from the Kentucky Oral History Commission, which supported the collection of the first batch of interviews. A wide range of people was interviewed for the project, including politicians, doctors, musicians, and educators as well as "regular folks." Currently, there are 27 interviews, and visitors can browse through them to get a sense of the offerings. One particularly fascinating interviewee is Dr. Jesse Bell, a longtime physician in Louisville. The collection will intrigue historians, urbanologists, and others with a passion for the American experience. [KMG]
http://www.populationaction.org/Video
The Population Action Group (PAG) has created this series of videos to inform the general public about their work around the globe, their research findings, and other related materials. Currently, the site offers a dozen different videos that cover a variety of topics from a profile the Group's president, Suzanne Ehlers, to "The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage." Another interesting film follows PAG staff members as they take to the streets to talk with people about the world's population. Visitors can search the film offerings by topic, and they will find that some of these materials might be appropriate to use in global studies or international relations courses. [KMG]
http://battatcontemporary.com/english/exhibitions-archive
Battat Contemporary is an art gallery that promotes works by many contemporary, working Canadian artists. It has a great online gallery of thirteen artists it has exhibited (found on the Artists page), as well as an archive of exhibitions going back several years. The current exhibition, which visitors should definitely check out, is "Nervous Lattice" with work by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline. His work invokes maps and human anatomy, and is accompanied by a critique by Clayton Deutsch. Visitors who prefer more movement and color should check out the archived exhibit HABITAT, which contains examples of John Ancheta's work. In addition to being able to view his individual works, visitors can also see photos of the gallery, so pieces can be seen in relation to another. All of Ancheta's work can be explored under the Artists link.
Italian ethnomusicologist Luis Devin has created a website about pygmies, the hunter-gatherer peoples of Central African rainforests. A section on the etymology of "pygmy" can be found on the homepage, and it's a good place to start for the uninitiated. Visitors will definitely enjoy any of the links to the pygmy groups, the Baka, Bakola-Bagyeli, Bedzan, Bakoya, and Aka, as the photos and text are accompanied by soundscapes. For instance, in the Baka Pygmies section, under Food Preparation, visitors will hear the sound of pangolin (a scaled mammal that looks like a cross between an artichoke and a hedgehog) crackling on a fire, as well as sounds of a Baka camp and the rainforest. The result, along with the horizontal scrolling required to view the whole page, is a refreshing web experience. Visitors interested in the ethnography process can check out the Fieldwork - Audio-Photo Diary, for many pictures of and by Luis Devin that show the range of his work. [KMG]
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/sanjaivekovic/
This web interactive from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents selections from the first U.S. retrospective of Sanja Iveković’s work. As a feminist, activist, and video and performance artist, Iveković (born in 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia) engages with a range of subjects: the "sweet violence" of media seduction in the 1970s that gives the show its name; the transformation from communist to post-communist political systems in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the disregard for women’s rights that continues today, "both in transitional societies and in democracies that pretend otherwise." The show at MoMA is huge - the illustrated exhibition checklist is 25 pages. Visitors to the website can click on individual works to open up a representation of each piece. For example, Sweet Violence is a six minute, black and white video, created in 1974 - there are two stills from it on the site. Paper Women is a series of twelve altered magazine advertisements - torn apart, cut into pieces, scratched, or perforated - of which four are available online. [DS]
