Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
We went down to visit our friends Karen & Ian over the Bank Holiday weekend. As we went to leave it was glorious weather imaginable and it was a wrench to get away, but I had to quickly pop up the hill and shoot an experimental panorama, which I’ve stitched Read more …
A test of the Android WordPress application and postings from my mobile. Neat!
I was recently prompted to pay a long overdue visit to the Horniman Museum, round in Forest Hill, south east London. So last Sunday morning Oliver and I set off for the day. Wow, it had changed incredibly since my last visit, back in the days when I was working Read more …
Google today have a Doodle for Kew Gardens’ 250th birthday, and the Queen is paying a visit.
Kew botanist Jonathan Timberlake recording vegetation on the steep slopes of Mount Mabu. Photo: Tom Timberlake There’s a nice audio slideshow, with some stunning pictures, now available on the BBC site – Audio slideshow: Discovering a ‘lost forest’. It’s covered in more depth on the Kew site – “Google Earth Read more …
Always nice to see Kew being featured on high profile programmes like newsnight, and especially on such a prominent news story (overly so if you ask me, but that’s not important here!). I particularly like the montage of a giant George Bush in the temperate House…. BBC NEWS | Programmes Read more …