I recently organized a panel about print culture on the Mountain West frontier. The attendance was large, given the intense cold of the evening, and the panelists were great. Professor Anne Hyde spoke about rumor, Darrin Pratt spoke about the challenges of a modern university press, and Wade Bishop gave a great introduction to GIS [...]
Yesterday, I gave a short presentation about seeing the “Book Transformed Through Information Technology” at the Boulder Public Library. It was a wonderful crowd of most of the staff at the library and I was really happy with the contrasting presentations. Tony Tallent ran the show and set the stage for the big questions of [...]
Where are the humanities and arts taking place, and where should they be headed? This question baits us to imagine that they are happening in the cliché ivory towers of academia, and that they must be brought out to enlighten the world. This is the easy trap of the conceited, evangelical, point of view that [...]
I was reading YestoKnow’s blog article Telling Our Story, Even in Uncertain Times and I began thinking about cause marketing and the documentation of social activities in troubled times. But why should we worry about the activity of cause marketing? Two weekends ago I attended a fantastic conference on The Culture of Print in Science, [...]
Today was the grand opening of the Book Arts League’s printshop at the Ewing Farm in Lafayette. It is a short drive from where I live and a colleague and I decided that we had to see this historic opening. We were not disappointed, the League was demonstrating printing on one of their presses, box [...]