The mutoscope video (Windows .avi, 5mb), showing how this early arcade ‘film clip player’ worked. (Right-click on link, “save as…”, then open with your media player). It’s possible that Mac users may need to get a codec pack in order to view this.
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The The Machine is Us/ing Us (2007) video by Michael Wesch, this time with nice music…
Wesch also made another on “Web 2.0″, a little while after the release of the first, Information R/evolution (2007)…
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Someone asked about a guide to the Second Life online world… try Second Life: The Official Guide (new 2008 edition) and Second Life for Dummies (2008). Bournville should have a copy of the 2007 edition of the first book.
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Not hugely relevant to the module, but some people who are interested in photographers asked for more information about these early photographers…
1. the stereoscope & cards set for Jacques Henri Lartigue. I have a copy and it’s excellent, and comes with a nice viewer; but sadly it is not in the BIAD library. Teamdroid have a DIY tutorial on how to make a modern digital stereoscopic camera from two cheapo cameras.
2. Oscar Gustave Rejlander. There’s a good set of pages here. Sadly, the best book on him is completely unobtainable (many photography monographs are now very collectable, and this one was superbly printed). Bear in mind that the two books published on him in the 1970s are rather unreliable. The Wikipedia page for him is reliable, as long as some twelve-year old tough hasn’t vandalised it since I last looked at it.
