UCSD Arts Libraries

Short Attention Span Chamber Music Series

The next installment of the SAS series will be August 20th in the alcove outside the Seuss Room in Geisel Library at 12:30 for a short live concert of unusual movie music. Just music, no movies. It’s the best possible way for us to answer some intriguing movie-music questions:

What is the secret musical ingredient needed for a good spaghetti Western?

Why does the best music in American Westerns rely so heavily on the pentatonic scale of Japanese folk music?

Why is it that the most beautiful Henry Mancini movie tune I’ve ever heard from a film that I never heard of?

Where do the best cliché tunes for silent film come from?

The Arts Library staff will answer all these questions at the show. Please join us!

Objectified

From the filmmaker who brought us Helvetica, comes a new project on Industrial Design and the people who make it. Very exciting, look for it to come out in 2009, but for now, stay caught up through their blog.

Public Works: Music For Libraries

08.08.08 listen for the carillon and an original piece by 6th College student Braden Diotte.

Visit his MySpace page for more info

Vanishing America

Beautiful pictures from Michael Eastman are currently on view at DNJ Gallery in Los Angeles. Vanishing America is images of those beautiful heartwrenching small town beauties that are swiftly falling down or coming down.

These pictures kill me, but be sure to visit his site to see all of his work as his Cuba series will also blow your mind.

Via Materialicious

Best Hidden Digital Image Resources

ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez has assembled an incredible list of excellent, less accessible visual resource collections.
I agree with Sarah, that these aren’t necessarily invisible resources, but it’s a great list none the less.

Via Librarian In Black

LA Modern Auction

Beautiful lot of Olivetti posters up for auction.

Lot 355.

Also up for auction, these amazing Calder jute pictures!

Lot 31.
Via Dinosaurs & Robots.

Summer Camp

My birthday is coming up, are you wondering what to get me? Please send me to summer camp.
I just found out about the nerdiest, best thing ever–Type Camp. Yes, that’s right, Type Camp. A bunch of font loving grown-ups gather together on a beautiful island in British Columbia to talk about, play with, create and explore the joys of type. 15 people, all meals catered, afternoons to explore the island- all at the low low price of $1280 (Canadian). Sigh.
I found out about this camp from my new favorite blog, I Love Typography, and yes, I do realize that this is turning into an obsession.

UPDATE!

Starting on June 23rd the current Music, Film Library Service desk (you know, the one all the way to your left if you come down the stairway that’s by special collections) will be the temporary combined ARTS LIBRARY desk. All art, architecture, music, film, visual resources inquires can be taken care of there. This is also where you will go for Film & Video Reserves. Our desk phone number will be 534-8074, but the old AAL (534-4811) & FVR (534-3075) desk numbers will be routed to this number too. If you ever have trouble finding what you need, just come to us for help!

Smithsonian + Flickr = copyright freeness

The Smithsonian has started posting photos with “no known copyright restrictions”.
link via BoingBoing

Loving it.

Reverse Graffiti Art (who knew?)

San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel is a filthy soot stained tunnel (think Holland, if you’re from the East Coast). You know- the kind of wall you could write your name with your finger…Well, British “professor of dirt” Moose, came to town and created a beautiful reverse graffiti wall by cleaning, instead of painting. Check out the video here
Unfortunately this seems to be an ad for some fancy ‘green’ cleaning products but the result is cool none the less.