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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/first-retrospective-20-years-master-photographer-irving-penn-opens-oct-23-smithsonian-ameri" target="_blank"><img src="http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/body-image-450/public/blog-attached-images/penn_dali.png?itok=RRCueE2z" alt="Salvador Dali, New York, 1947, by Irving Penn, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation." title="Salvador Dali, New York, 1947, by Irving Penn, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation." width="450" height="563" /></a></p> <ul><li><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Awesome sauce! Can&#039;t wait for the Smithsonian American Art Museum&#039;s exhibition, </span><em style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;"><a href="http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/first-retrospective-20-years-master-photographer-irving-penn-opens-oct-23-smithsonian-ameri" target="_blank">Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty</a></em><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">, the first restrospective exhibition in 20 years of Penn&#039;s photography and which will also include 48 previously unseen or never exhibited photographs. [via </span><a href="http://newsdesk.si.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">SI Newsdesk</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">]</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Stanford University Libraries recently released the newest version of their </span><a href="https://library.stanford.edu/news/2015/07/stanford-university-libraries-develops-new-software-give-researchers-unprecedented" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">open source program, ePADD</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">, which addresses the privacy and access challenges of archives containing electronic communications and provides unprecedented access to email archives. [via </span><a href="https://library.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Stanford University Libraries</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">]</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">How were you made "Steggy"? A look at how the </span><a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/100years/2015/07/how-to-make-a-stegosaurus.html" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">papier mâché model of the stegosaurus</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;"> was put together after having been on display at the National Museum of Natural History for 107 years. [via </span><a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Unearthed</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;"> blog, NMNH]</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Researcher beware - The </span><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/marie-curies-research-papers-are-still-radioactive-100-years-later.html" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">papers of Marie Curie are still radioactive</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;"> and will be for the forseeable future. [via </span><a href="http://www.openculture.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Open Culture</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">]</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">A great behind-the-scenes look at the </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/07/film-preservation/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">The Library of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;"> in Culpepper, Virginia. [via </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">Wired</a><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">]</span></li> <li>The complexities of film - This is a <a href="http://petapixel.com/2015/07/07/how-film-projectors-turn-still-frames-into-moving-pictures/" target="_blank">great video that explains the engineering behind a film projector</a>. [via <a href="http://petapixel.com/" target="_blank">PetaPixel</a>]</li> </ul><p></p><center> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/En__V0oEJsU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p></p></center> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-4 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Blog Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog/tag/link-love"><span>Link Love</span></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog/tag/artist"><span>Artist</span></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog/tag/exhibitions"><span>Exhibitions</span></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/blog/tag/webtech"><span>Web/Tech</span></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog/tag/filmvideo"><span>Film/Video</span></a></div></div></div>

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