Walking around Singapore, the video experience! Chinatown, Little India, Bullfrogs!

Here's some videos of "walking around Singapore" ...

Tekka Market, Little India:



Some more of Little India:




Street event for Chinese New Year (on New Bridge Road):




A walk through Chinatown:



Bullfrogs in the China Center Complex Market:

Making some videos, "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe"

Visit Smithsonian Libraries' Galaxy of Images (http://www.sil.si.edu/galaxy) to explore a wide range of images from our collections that help to meet the Smithsonian's Grand Challenge of Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe. Support Smithsonian Libraries by visiting http://donate.sil.si.edu today.

Images available from the Galaxy of Images. Additional Photography by Martin R. Kalfatovic

Music: "The Four Seasons - Winter" by Vivaldi, performed by the US Air Force Band (public domain music available at http://www.musopen.org/)

At look back at the Beatles, from 3000 A.D.

This is a great little video that gives some perspective on the sometimes overly authoritative pronouncements of historians.

Moby Dick: Reimagined

August 1, 1819, Herman Melville was born.

This fabulous interpretation of Moby Dick comes from Alex Itin and was found on the If:Book blog. Be sure to take a look at Itin's Ulysses too!

June 16: Happy Bloomsday!

Happy Bloomsday!

Today, June 16, is the day that Leopold Bloom had his adventures in 1904 Dublin. Here's a wonderful rendering of Ulysses.

If we can't laugh ...

at ourselves ... we can laugh at anteater experts:

Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters

Planet Bob!

A humorous view of taxonomy and its importance to life on the planet - even Planet Bob!

BHL @ OCA video

Tom Garnett, Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, gave an update on the BHL at the 3rd Annual Open Content Alliance meeting in San Francisco.

Libraries Going Open! Debuts

The Open Content Alliance 3rd annual meeting held at the Presidio in San Francisco saw the debut of "Libraries Going Open" a new short film celebrating open access to library material.

Paul Otlet: Creator of the UDC

Paul Otlet is not as well known in the U.S. as other great leaders in the information science field. The Internet Archive provides access to "Alle Kennis van de Wereld (Biography of Paul Otlet)" (1998)

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Librarians: Their Ways and Means of Living

It was inevitable, after the success of "March of the Librarians" (from ALA Midwinter in Seattle), someone had to make a knock-off imitation from ALA Annual in Washington. "Librarians: Their Ways and Means of Living" is not nearly as amusing or entertaining, but it does seem to be the first one out of the blocks! The editing quality clearly shows that the creator didn't use a Mac. Version 2 is on top.

Knowledge Navigator: Biodiversity Portal!

A promo film from Apple (1987) for the "Knowledge Navigator". Interesting take on a biodiversity portal or working tool!

As part of the "Vocational Guidance Films: Your Life Work", The Librarian (1947) shows the various skills and job options open to "the librarian" at the time. As the world moves from 1.0 to 2.0 how much of this 60 year old portrayal of the profession change?

View the entire film from The Prelinger Archives at the Internet Archive.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Still thinking Web 2.0 thoughts ... here's the best summary of it all.

This was my trip to Seattle