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Wikipedia Article Evaluation

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 6:02 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Andy Warhol page on Wikipedia has 100 citations that vary from newspaper articles (such as the Economist), magazine articles (such as The New Yorker), commercial websites (like warhola.com, which does not identify the site’s author), publications from universities, museum and gallery websites and commercial publications (such as Bantam Books). With such a broad scope […]

Research

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 7:21 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012

Revised research question: How did Andy Warhol’s personal life influence his stardom and affect the way his art was received by the public? Research: On archive finder I was unable to find an archive on Andy Warhol but he is included in the index terms for a few archives including, Joe Brainard and Harper’s Magazine. […]

Which is more important, the artist or the photograph?

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 4:16 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012

In Errol Morris’ article “Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?”, I found Morris’ journey of research in determining the order in which Fenton’s photographs at Crimea were taken particularly interesting. In the first part, Morris researches different scholars’ opinions of the photographs and through this he comes to the conclusion that they base […]

Research Question

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 6:12 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Under what circumstances (life events, historical events, artistic events) did Andy Warhol lead the art movement known as Pop Art and how did these circumstances affect his art?

Man vs Machine

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 6:03 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

In Cohen and Rosenzweig’s chapter, Becoming Digital I found the section discussing ways to make text digital most interesting. After explaining different methods for digitalizing text, such as scanning and OCR, the authors come to this point: “Although it seems counterintuitive, studies have concluded that the time spent correcting a small number of OCR errors can […]

HTML Practice Post

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 3:31 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

This is an important header. This is a less important header. This is a paragraph.   Item 1 Item 2 Item 3   Item 1 Item 2 Link to google.

Research Project Ideas

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 3:43 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012

1) 1990s Grunge 2) Andy Warhol and Pop Art 3) Elvis Presley and rock

Week 2 Reading Response

Filed under: Uncategorized — rhiannonvt at 1:53 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012

From Cohen and Rosenzweig’s second chapter of Digital History titled Getting Started: The Basic Technologies Behind the Web, I found the section Naming Your Site and Presenting It to the World the most interesting. In this section the authors discuss website addresses and the nature of URLs. URLs are what allows computers to locate certain web pages in […]

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