Thom pointed out that there's an exhibit that's just started at the de Young museum in San Francisco, California, featuring decades of photographs of signs by famous (and not-so-famous) American photographers like Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, and Ed Ruscha.
It's interesting to me that the description of the exhibit says that, within the "sensory overload" of the metropolis, the ubiquitous signs contribute to the "visual anarchy" of the scene. I wonder how signs and 'urban visual anarchy' in a broader sense fit into the photographic traditions in other countries...any good websites or texts out there?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
flickr group created
Hello all,
I've just set up a flickr group for anyone who's already on flickr, or who would like to try it out. Like Kasper mentioned in his previous post, I guess we'll want to eventually move to a more robust site than this blog + Google group + flickr site combination, something that synthesizes all of this functionality together. But in the meantime...
I've uploaded some of my own photos, geo-tagged them, cross-referenced a few of them to blog posts I've done on the same photos, and started a discussion topic called "Signs of Surveillance" about a particular topic I'm interested in. This is just to explore some possibilities for what might be done on a broader scale with more of us participating--I would love to hear from those with other ideas about how we could profit from the tools of sites like this, while still making sure discussions of photos remain at a high quality and serve our interests.
Right now, the group is open to anybody who'd like to join. If we continue to use it and decide we'd like to make it invitation-only, that's an easy change to make later.
Would anyone like to be an administrator of this flickr group in the meantime?
--David
I've just set up a flickr group for anyone who's already on flickr, or who would like to try it out. Like Kasper mentioned in his previous post, I guess we'll want to eventually move to a more robust site than this blog + Google group + flickr site combination, something that synthesizes all of this functionality together. But in the meantime...
I've uploaded some of my own photos, geo-tagged them, cross-referenced a few of them to blog posts I've done on the same photos, and started a discussion topic called "Signs of Surveillance" about a particular topic I'm interested in. This is just to explore some possibilities for what might be done on a broader scale with more of us participating--I would love to hear from those with other ideas about how we could profit from the tools of sites like this, while still making sure discussions of photos remain at a high quality and serve our interests.
Right now, the group is open to anybody who'd like to join. If we continue to use it and decide we'd like to make it invitation-only, that's an easy change to make later.
Would anyone like to be an administrator of this flickr group in the meantime?
--David
Monday, January 19, 2009
Working Papers and a Bibliography?
Dear all,
Back in Tilburg now. Fully agree with David that Siena was a wonderful experience! (Thanks again to Monica and Carla, and also to Anna, Francesca, Mika, Raymond, Sabrina, Simone and Valentina for organising this truly unforgettable event.)
I was thinking it may be an idea to include a working paper series on the blog/website where documents can be can be pre-published as work in progress. It has already been suggested that the blog should contain a place where powerpoints etc. could be uploaded. I'm now suggesting this could be framed in a multi-media working paper series where all sorts of documents (ranging from PPTs, text files and posters) can be published (in the original sense of going public). A working paper series would just add a title (e.g., Work in Progress on Linguistic Landscapes) as well as some extra (online) visibility and retrievability. Comments pls.
The other thing we may like to work on collaboratively is a linguistic landscape bibliography containing our own work, but also references to work we consider foundational or just important for the field. A lot of these references can be found at the end of individual papers, but it may be interesting to have a more comprehensive central database that could be tagged with a couple of parameters. I'm not sure if the blog is the most adequate place to build up such a bibliography; this may be the sort of endeavour that thrives well with some sort of off-line coordination, for which I could volunteer to take initiative, together with maybe one or two others. Comments pls.
Back in Tilburg now. Fully agree with David that Siena was a wonderful experience! (Thanks again to Monica and Carla, and also to Anna, Francesca, Mika, Raymond, Sabrina, Simone and Valentina for organising this truly unforgettable event.)
I was thinking it may be an idea to include a working paper series on the blog/website where documents can be can be pre-published as work in progress. It has already been suggested that the blog should contain a place where powerpoints etc. could be uploaded. I'm now suggesting this could be framed in a multi-media working paper series where all sorts of documents (ranging from PPTs, text files and posters) can be published (in the original sense of going public). A working paper series would just add a title (e.g., Work in Progress on Linguistic Landscapes) as well as some extra (online) visibility and retrievability. Comments pls.
The other thing we may like to work on collaboratively is a linguistic landscape bibliography containing our own work, but also references to work we consider foundational or just important for the field. A lot of these references can be found at the end of individual papers, but it may be interesting to have a more comprehensive central database that could be tagged with a couple of parameters. I'm not sure if the blog is the most adequate place to build up such a bibliography; this may be the sort of endeavour that thrives well with some sort of off-line coordination, for which I could volunteer to take initiative, together with maybe one or two others. Comments pls.
What are your research questions?
At the end of the wrap-up discussion at the Siena Linguistic Landscape Workshop on Saturday afternoon, several people suggested that we share research questions with each other. Please feel free to write these along with other thoughts or questions you have, extensions from our conversation on Saturday, etc.
Please respond with a comment to this post, or as a new post of your own. Send an e-mail to llsiena2009@gmail.com if you haven't yet been invited.
Grazie!
Please respond with a comment to this post, or as a new post of your own. Send an e-mail to llsiena2009@gmail.com if you haven't yet been invited.
Grazie!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Welcome to the Linguistic Landscape blog!
Buongiorno e benvenuti sul blog. This blog has been created to allow anyone participating in the Siena LL workshop, and the broader community of scholars interested in linguistic landscape, to share thoughts, resources, and to continue our discussions online. It's open to anybody who's interested-- please send an email to llsiena2009@gmail.com and we will send you an invitation to become a contributor.
Also, please send any resources or links about linguistic landscape from your presentations, powerpoint files, etc. and we can add these as resources to the blog.
Shortly, we will post the abstracts for the papers as separate blog posts, so that you can comment and ask questions about each. These are currently available for download as a single file (see the "FILES" section to the right). You don't need to be registered for the blog to comment.
Lastly, please feel free to write in any language or combination of languages. Together, we can make this blog into a true multilingual linguistic space!
--from Monica, Carla, Francesca, Dave and other blog organizers
Also, please send any resources or links about linguistic landscape from your presentations, powerpoint files, etc. and we can add these as resources to the blog.
Shortly, we will post the abstracts for the papers as separate blog posts, so that you can comment and ask questions about each. These are currently available for download as a single file (see the "FILES" section to the right). You don't need to be registered for the blog to comment.
Lastly, please feel free to write in any language or combination of languages. Together, we can make this blog into a true multilingual linguistic space!
--from Monica, Carla, Francesca, Dave and other blog organizers
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