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Two Pieces at the Outwin Prize Exhibit
Aside from The Renwick Gallery’s current “Wonder” show, no other exhibit in DC has gained as much attention this year as the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portraiture Competition. If the expressionless face of Miss Everything (Unsupressed Deliverance) staring at you from above an … Continue reading
30 Days of Cheese: What I Ate, What I Learned, What I’ll Eat Again
It tastes like a sweaty farmyard animal in my mouth, but in a good way. Sophia is a goat’s milk cheese produced by Indiana’s Capriole Farm. It looks like a small,wrinkled brick of mold, but when I cut into its soft … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheese, Eat & Drink, Experiments, Humboldt Fog
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Not Another Summer Reading List
‘Tis the season to make reading lists. Thrilled by the sudden warmth of the sun and the promise (or more likely, fantasy) of a few days on the beach, everyone starts making lists of books that we imagine gazing at over … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability Journal, Cheese, NoirSummer
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Interactive Ruskin Process/Tutorial
Building the Book Early Fails Tech geeks often use the term “early fail” to describe the positive side-effects of an idea that didn’t work. The philosophy is that you learn more from an “early fail” than you do from an … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities, Dissertation, Ruskin
Tagged Digital Humanities, Dissertation, Ruskin
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Building an Interactive Ruskin
Someday in the future, engineers may be able to create a fully interactive John Ruskin audioanimatronic that walks, talks, and thinks exactly like Ruskin. Then he can tell us what we don’t understand about art, how badly we behave as tourists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Humanities, Mornings in Florence, Ruskin
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Writing a Digital Dissertation Companion
There has been a lot of talk lately about the viability and best practices of writing a digital dissertation. One notable example is Amanda Visconti, who, among others, has an interesting, dynamic project as well as the skills to build it into … Continue reading
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Collecting Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a consummate collector of photographs, books, priceless works of art, and famous friends. Henry James loosely (and not entirely favorably) based at least a couple of characters on her. John Singer Sargent painted her, so did Anders … Continue reading
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The Accountability Manifesto
I began the Accountability Journal almost ten years ago. At the time, I was in a grad student at a prestigious, highly competitive university in the UK and desperately trying to finish my dissertation. If you’ve ever worked independently, whether for school, self-employment, … Continue reading
The Accountability Journal
If you’re like me, you’ve struggled to find balance between all the competing areas of your life–your work, your family, your interests, your health, that new hobby you always wanted to pick up. Every day a new priority reshifts your focus, … Continue reading
Bateaux Quittant le Port du Havre
Gustave Le Gray is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century. Born outside of Paris in 1820, his early training was in painting; therefore, it’s not surprising that Le Gray favored the grand scale of landscapes … Continue reading
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