Archive for the ‘Humanities’ Category
11
Jan
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Personal, Tech. Tagged: denmark, Humanities, museums, randers, rune, rune stone, show, stone, Tech. 1 Comment
A museum should be fun. A place you want to go. A place where you learne about history, human thought and nature in a creative environment. Very few museums seems to realise this. However, all is not lost. Randers Kulturhistoriske Museum have put up a new rune display that seems to be fantastic. In a sparkling [...]
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28
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Food & Drink, Humanities, Tech, books, typography, writing. Tagged: bok- och biblioteksmässa, bokmässa, book, con, conference, convention, death piglet, göteborg, gothenburg, stars, taschen. 6 Comments
As previously stated, I attended the Book- & Library con in Gothenburg this Thursday. I thought I’d recount some of that experience here for the benefit of the ‘scryers’ of the TwilightShadows.
Staying the night with two girls…
The trip was paid for by the department I attend, the Department for Culture Studies, but of course we [...]
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24
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Personal, author, books, update, writing. Tagged: "bishops arm", "culture night", bokmässa, book, con, flickr, göteborg, gothenburg, irish, kulturnatten, library, litteralund, mushroom, session, updatem "jonathan coulton". 3 Comments
So, I thought maybe it was time for a general update of things. As you might have seen I recently went pro on Flickr and updated for the entire summer. Sorry about that, but my internet connection over the summer was really sucky…
In other news: I am attending the Book and Library con in Gothenburg [...]
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8
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, books, writing. Tagged: blog, books, communication, cuniform, dilemma, hieroglyph, history, parchment, smiley, typography, writing. 3 Comments
I recently began a course in the history of handwritten texts, and I must say it has made me think a lot about communication.
Throughout history we are inclined to think that we as a race have evolved into more and more advanced creatures, which in turn has led to more and more advanced communication. We [...]
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27
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Podcast, Tech, author, books, web 2.0. Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, archive.org, books, Cinderella, denmark, digitise, Dvorak, europe, european, finland, google books, history, Howell, iceland, Kahle, Laporte, literature, microsoft, norway, open library, scandinavia, scanning, sweden, Tech, TWiL, TWiT, yahoo. Leave a Comment
In listening to the latest episode of This Week in Tech, I was at first horrified that I would not get my normal weekly dose of half-arsed, funny but still very informative insights into the world of tech and Web 2.0. The tone was serious! Well, I still clung on, and in many ways this [...]
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19
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Legends, Movies, Philosophy, Streaming, Tech. Tagged: beauty, cinema, cinematograph, david lynch, film, interesting, lumière, short. Leave a Comment
I am still undecided whether I am a fan of David Lynch or not, though I certainly dig some of his stuff. But this was quite beautiful and interesting I thought. It is Lynches contribution to a compilation made in the mid 90’s. Everyone had to only use the original Cinematographe invented by the [...]
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16
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Tech, apps, mac, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography. Leave a Comment
People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement.
So [...]
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23
Apr
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Philosophy. Tagged: contradiction, faulty, human rights, logic, Philosophy, philosophy of religion, Religion, religious freedom. Leave a Comment
At the moment I’m writing on my thesis about weather or not we need religious freedom. Is it a viable freedom or should we just be done with it and enjoy our rights to free speech and freedom of thought? I still have not reached a verdict, as, due to slightly to many personal problems, [...]
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22
Apr
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Philosophy, Tech, apps, author, books, mac, writing. Tagged: distraction free, merlin mann, neil gaiman, text editing, word processing, write room, writer, writing. Leave a Comment
Do you ever find that the world is closing in on you and you are not focusing quite as well on the task at hand as you should? As a student and aspiring writer I find this a lot, and I’ve been looking around for a solution to this problem. Well there is one which [...]
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19
Mar
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Legends, Philosophy, Tech, author, books. Tagged: 2001, a space odyssey, arthur c clarke, death, died. 1 Comment
The venerable Arthur C. Clarke has died, age 90, and a world of geeks cries out. Maybe I should watch 2001: A Space Odyssey tonight? You know, as a beautiful but slightly confusing tribute.
Thobias
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