Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
The Eden Project has just seen a titan arum flower, and to back it up they have done some nice web coverage including a live webcam and timelapse footage. But looking at Google News it seems that this latest flowering has failed to capture the imagination of the press with Read more …
A new exhibition opened at Kew this week featuring photography from Kew Magazine. Not one to brag (much) but they’ve chosen six photos of mine that have appeared in the Magazine over the last year or two. You can see them all online on the Kew website, or just click Read more …
Introducing www.WhatsThatPicture.com…. My personal interest in vintage photographs has inspired me to conceive a new website, called “What’s That Picture?” In my own rather random collections I have been struck by how many photographs simply have no provenance, yet look as though someone, somewhere, should certainly know where or perhaps Read more …
Statue in Queen’s Garden, Kew Geese in the snow at Kew Kew Palace in the snow More pictures of Kew in the snow…
I do try not to delve into politics and religion, at least not in public, but I’ve just been reading about a place where dinosaurs and humans coexist in a museum display. Now, if evolution had deemed to give humans feathers then I can assure you that mine would be Read more …
I have written before about the joys of common names of plants, but the piece Losing something in translation? really does seem to have captured some of the more bizarre stories of how sometimes the most common of plants have acquired their assortment of vernacular names around the globe. I Read more …