Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think ...
Owen Hatherleynew-east-archive.org
Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think ...
The Living Headstone, for example, attaches or engraves a QR code to a headstone, which is then readable by smartphone and connected to a unique, personalized online memorial page. This digital space is “similar to a personal Facebook page,” where, a “Living Headstone” archive site contains information you and friends can add about your loved one,
... See moreA. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
I could probably write an essay on how the MOMA demolished the Folk Art Museum by Williams and Tsien in NYC. The FAM was a masterpiece, it’s known for the facade, but the interior was special too. I think it went out of business. MOMA was next door, and instead of acknowledging the museum as a work of art, they figured big open spaces would be flex
... See moreBut a recent, wide-ranging and in-depth (I know – impressive!) analysis of Iron Age burial practices across Britain has challenged lots of the assumptions that have become embedded in archaeology – particularly the idea of consistent rites within certain regions, but even the idea of a background of consistent ‘invisible rites’ right across the cou
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‘Roughly where we’re standing, just to the south of the hillfort itself, there was a group of Bronze Age barrows. They were later reused for Saxon burials – that’s fairly common.’ This echoed that reuse of Neolithic tombs in the Bronze Age. ‘It seems to be about more recent incomers wanting to establish their right to the land,’ muses Adrian. Linki
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