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Egyptian culture
Egyptian Lantern Slides — Places, Brooklyn Museum’s photostream, Flickr, public domain — from the pyramids of Gizah to the temple of Edfu. In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could … Continue reading
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26c3: I, Internet
The actions of a highly-networked group of individuals cannot be explained as the sum of actions of individuals. Let’s explore how far we are along with evolving collective consciousnesses and what’s on their minds. With the Internet, the individual’s ability for … Continue reading
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sun is shining
Two opposed cuts along a roman wall to get an impression of the basement — eight hours work at temperatures as high as 30°C. On the second picture you can see two correspondent walls — at first sight. But doing a cut … Continue reading
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call it a day
Ouch — my back is aching. We’ve done a lot of preparation for the sealing of some rooms of the villa. Among those necessary tasks, we’ve done a cut too — layer for layer — without destroying much of the roman floor … Continue reading
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at least some pictures
As promised some pictures of the excavation mentioned some days ago. On the first four pictures you can see some of the walls we uncovered in two days. We call it cleaning, you have to be careful not to disturb … Continue reading
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where is the money and why are you doing this
Once in a while people ask me what I do for a living. After responding to this very question people are baffled most of the time. They don’t understand the fact, that someone doesn’t care about money. Well actually I do care about it … Continue reading
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Sun puts Internet Archive in a box …
If the only way to preserve data is to keep copying it to new media, then all that has to happen for my work to disappear is for someone at some point to just not copy it. And it seems … Continue reading
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in thunder, lightning or in rain
As I said yesterday: rain, ice pellets, sun — the full program, of course alternating. Uncovered large parts of the wall, some of it bent — maybe parts of a basin. Found many silex and parts of dishes (terra nigra). Maybe I will … Continue reading
excavation
Nothing much to tell today: uncovered maybe some platform in another villa — well field work is really slow by nature. The weather was lousy, really windy if not almost stormy — but then, it’s really fun to discover something … Continue reading
the digital now — epic fail
Or the sorry state of backup in modern digital world. Do you remember the good old times? Well sure you do, because we have got old newspapers in archives, photographs at home, several centuries old books etc. We do have … Continue reading