Research Heritage Websites

http://www.newcastlecommunityheritage.org/

Stardotstar.com - HearManchester

The Rochdale Canal cuts a swathe through the heart of Manchester but, unloved and largely ignored, rarely featured on any tourist map – until Marketing Manchester and Manchester City Council decided to raise its profile among residents and visitors alike. The canal, and the Petersfield area around it, is steeped in history, from the creation of the world’s first programmable computer to the rise and fall of Factory Records. Hearmanchester.com lets the history, personality and attitude of this part of the city speak for itself – and in so doing, bring the Rochdale Canal to life.

Fronted by punk singer and music pundit, John Robb, Hearmanchester.com is an ambitious multi-format project that centres on a series of ten audio portraits. These guides, linked to landmark signage by the side of the canal itself, can be accessed online via a PC or MP3 player or listened to on site via an iPhone or 3G mobile. Accompanied by downloadable transcripts and maps, Hearmanchester.com tells the story of Manchester’s past, anchoring vanished histories to today’s physical landmarks. Designed to fit the devices already in users’ pockets, it is an audio trail for people who wouldn’t be seen dead using an audio trail – but who don’t mind discovering the past on the mobile device in their hand, the laptop in their hotel room or the iPod in their car.

Produced in record time, Hearmanchester.com met with industry approval: the product was nominated for two BIMA awards in 2008, and won two Special Commendations that the 2009 Big Chip Awards.

But don’t take our word for it, take a stroll along the Rochdale Canal, type Hearmanchester.com into the browser on your phone, and listen to a programme about the city you thought you knew.

http://stardotstar.com/projects/hearmanchester

Love Creative - Dinosaur Exhibition & The Neighbourhood

Dinosaur Exhibition

A limited budget shouldn’t mean limited creativity as we found out when generating awareness of the new Dinosaur exhibition at the Museum of Science & Industry.

http://www.lovecreative.com/work/museum-of-science-and-industry/dinosaur-exhibition




http://www.lovecreative.com/work/the-neighbourhood/website


The Neighbourhood

Design and build a website for one of the UK’s leading 3D visualisation and animation houses that has personality, rather than technology, at the fore. How refreshing.

Welcome to the Harris Museum & Art Gallery’s History Walk. Follow it to explore the people and places behind Preston’s industrial history.

The locations on this walk are inspired by the Industrial Revolutionaries exhibition (26 June – 6 November 2010).

The walk takes you around the centre of Preston and we have designed a number of guides to help you enjoy your walk. You can pick up a printed guide from the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, or use one of our electronic maps.

The map below shows all the points on the walk, and clicking them brings up information about the location. If you launch the map full screen (click on the link below), you can print it out, add it to your own maps or launch it in Google Earth on your mac or PC.

If you have a smartphone with the Google Earth App installed, you can view the map on the go by first saving it to My Maps in your browser, then loading it through My Maps in the application. (Note: to save maps in Google, you will need a Google account). IPhone users can launch the map directly into the Maps application through this link.

We have also developed an augmented reality tour of the city using the Layar mobile application (above). Using the Harris Museum History Walk Layer, you can experience the tour in immersive 3d space, and find images, information and even 3d buildings in the city. Layar is a free application for IPhone (3GS or Iphone 4 needed) and Android phones. Search for "Harris Museum History Walk" in Layar to find our layer. To find out more about Layar, and to download the App, visit the Layar website.

For an easy users guide to Layar, have a look at this video.

That's a lot of ways to enjoy the tour, you'll never get lost in Preston again!



http://www.revolutionaries.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=5

Story Chair - 250 years of the Bridgewater Canal

Sit in the chair and listen to people's memories and stories of the Bridgewater Canal.

This chair has been designed for 'The First Cut' exhibition by artist Jane Revitt. Jane is a visual artist who creates large scale installations and site specific commissions for public buildings. She also designs individual pieces of furniture for museums, schools, exhibitions and the home. A sense of colour, theatre and a fascination with textiles are strands that run through all her work. For further information visit: www.janerevitt.co.uk

The chair is upholstered in a fabric print of a 1903 map of the Salford area, with mapping provided by kind permission of Cassini Publishing Ltd.

Story Chair track listing:

- John Aldred talks about the beginnings of the canal
- Mark Charnley talks about the Orange Canal
- John Aldred talks about Queen Victoria's visit
- Mark Charnley talks about a surprising visit on the canal
- Dave Rigby talks about canal boats
- Phil Austin talks about the canal and the lighthouse at Monton
- Helen Broadbent talks about a grizzly family story
- John Aldred talks about the Bridgewater Canal's opening in 1761

Hi-tech mobile project brings Chapel Street's past to life

Historic highlights of Chapel Street are to be
brought to life through a digital heritage trail.

Walkers will be guided along the route via maps, video, photos, audio and text on their mobile phone.

The trail, which will be accessible via the internet, will focus on half a mile of Chapel Street from the ancient Plague Pits, where some 22,000 bodies lie buried beneath what is now a public park, past the Grade II listed town hall to the corner of Fire Station Square.

Social enterprise Engage with Media has been given £46,900 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to bring the project to life.

Points of interest will include:

• The Crescent public house where Karl Marx is reputed to have met Frederick Engels, with whom he wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
• The site of the Battle of Bexley Square where a near riot occurred in front of the town hall in 1931.
• A red telephone box which is one of Salford’s smallest listed buildings.
• St Phillips Church, which was sketched by LS Lowry.

The aim is to spark younger Salfordians’ interest in the history of the road, which is undergoing a massive redesign as part of a £650m regeneration project. Volunteers are needed to help with research, media production and publicity for the project.

Alan Mcglone, from Engage with Media, based at Adelphi House, The Crescent, said: "We want volunteers to help make this project a success.

"It will allow us all to learn how important Salford has been to UK and world history and to learn digital media skills at the same time.

"We’re especially interested in talking to anyone with memories of the area."

Hazel Blears, MP for Salford and Eccles, said: "The use of digital media to record the history of this important part of our city supports the aspirations that we have for Salford being home to the industries of the future."

Anyone interested can register at www.heritagefootsteps.com .

By Ben Turner, October 20, 2011

http://menmedia.co.uk/salfordadvertiser/news/s/1462443_hi-tech-mobile-project-brings-chapel-streets-past-to-life

Donald Jackson - The St. John's Bible

The art director, Donald Jackson, talks about the first completely handwritten Bible commissioned in 500 years.




"In 1970, Donald Jackson told Barbara Walters that it was his dream to handwrite the entire Bible. About 12 years ago, the world-renowned calligraphic artist was given the opportunity to realize that dream.

Minnesota's St. John's Abbey and University commissioned Jackson to create the 2-foot tall, 3-foot wide St. John's Bible, featuring biblical scripture and images of mankind's accomplishments throughout the last 500 years.

The St. John's Bible was a 15-year collaboration among various artists. Completed in May, the finished piece features 1,150 pages of hand-drawn illustrations, elegant scripture and gold leaf.

The first words were written on Ash Wednesday in 2000. Several historic events, such as Sept. 11 and the recent earthquake in Japan, have been artistically incorporated into the illustrations.

"Ten years ago, a short time after 9/11, I was working on an illumination of 'The Prodigal Son' in Gospel and Acts Volume. It carries a message of God’s power and willingness to forgive the unforgivable. Without realizing, I found myself weaving an image of the Twin Towers into the design, thinking 'Hard as it is, you’ve got to love your way out of this one you can’t hate your way out of it,'" Jackson told The Huffington Post in an email.

Under Jackson's direction, a team of scholars, theologians, artists and calligraphers from Minnesota and Wales worked together to complete the project. The scriptures were written using quills from goose or swan feathers, the Associated Press reports.

“When you use a quill, because it is a delicate instrument, and it picks up you — I mean as you write, every breath you take, (every) heartbeat, just like a musical instrument, it goes into that,” Jackson told Matt Lauer during his interview on "Today".

The purpose of the St. John's Bible is to bring the Word of God to today's population in a way they've never seen it before. Reproductions of the Bible can be viewed at more than 40 establishments throughout the world. The piece is the only "handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago," according to the press release about the St. John's Bible.

The Bible is currently on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota through Nov. 13, according to the Associated Press. An Apostles Edition of the Bible has been presented to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City". - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/illuminated-st-johns-bible_n_1019800.html

The Huffington Post Ileana Llorens First Posted: 10/19/11 02:21 PM ET Updated: 10/21/11 04:39 PM E

Contextual Research: Imperial War Museum North

http://north.iwm.org.uk/

Contextual Research: Harris Museum

The Harris is a stunning Grade I listed Neo-Classical building which was designed by James Hibbert (1833-1903) to house the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library. It was completed in 1893. The history and architecture of the Harris are of great interest to local people and visitors to Preston. The building also has many interesting features including a cast of the Parthenon Frieze, Preston’s Roll of Honour and a Foucault’s Pendulum.

http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/

Sony Computer Entertainment presents: The Stereoscopic 3D Experience

This is a must attend for all inspiring digital content creators. Presented entirely in 3D, Sony Computer Entertainment share the experience of the first years of the digital 3D revolution. Key areas will illustrate how creating 3D content differs from traditional practices, triggering a need for new methods of working and creating new creative opportunities.

Since the launch of digital 3D cinema in 2009, stereoscopic 3D has rapidly swept across many industries, resulting in a wide range of 3D enabled consumer devices and an enormous demand for high quality 3D content.
Be part of the future today - and it’s free.

Speakers:
Keynote speaker is no other than Sony Computer Entertainments Stereoscopic
3D Team led by Simon Benson and Ian Bickerstaff.
Simon and Ian have been working with Stereoscopic 3D for over a decade, initially applying the technology to high end simulators whilst working at BAE
SYSTEMS, and then moving to Sony Computer Entertainment to spearhead the
launch of 3D on the PlayStation®3. They have a broad knowledge of the wider
3D industry through regular collaboration with other Sony divisions such as
Sony Pictures and Sony Electronics, as well as a detailed understanding of 3D
games creation.
Agenda:
The presentation aims to cover the following topics:
•Introduction to 3D- How 3D works, history, 3D today
•3D on PlayStation®3- Platform features, benefits of 3D
•Quality- significance of quality, how we assess quality
•3D content creation- Art, Design, Programming
•Future of 3D
•3D Opportunities- How you could benefit from 3D
•Q&A

You will gain an understanding of how stereoscopic 3D works and how it is
being used across a range of industries, the importance of quality and how this
can be assessed, the benefits that 3D can bring and the importance of focusing
on exploiting these benefits, how 3D affects content creation across a range of
disciplines, where 3D may be going in the future and finally, the opportunities
that may be relevant to you if you are considering adopting stereoscopic 3D.

Contextual Research: People's History Museum

"The People’s History Museum derives its origin from the Trade Union, Labour and Co-operative History Society. From the 1960s the society formed a small collection and between 1975 and 1986 ran a museum in Limehouse Town Hall in London.

The museum was known as both the National Museum of Labour History and the Pump House People’s History Museum. In 2001 the museum decided to use one name to embrace the whole organization: People’s History Museum". - http://www.phm.org.uk/about-us/history/

This was my first visit to the 'People's History Museum' i came to see the 'On the March - Banner Exhibition'. I found the banners inspiring and very political i love the use of strong colours and the different fabrics used to create them. The building the museum is in is the the only surviving Edwardian hydraulic pumping station in the city and was used to supply power to the warehouses and even wound the Town Hall clock and raised the curtain at the Opera House!










http://www.phm.org.uk/