Links for July 2013

That’s a map of London, made by plotting the location of tweets from different mobile devices. Via Twitter + GNIP. Arts/digital links Phil Thompson took screenshots of paintings that had been blurred out on the Google Art Project website due to copyright reasons. He sent those to oil painting reproduction companies in China and had […]

Links for June 2013

NYLPT: Randomly generated sequences of Jason Evans’s street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with a randomly evolving soundtrack generated through a combination of 17 synthesizers. Arts, digital, etc Yet again, more interesting stuff from job descriptions. This time there’s a […]

Arts organisations’ website speed and performance

For this post in the Arts Analytics series, I wanted to see how much effort arts organisations are putting into the performance of their websites. For this I just looked at homepages and asked the following: How big are those pages? How quickly do they load? How much effort has been put into improve performance? […]