Projects
Graffiti from university libraries
For three years, I’ve been documenting (and, subsequently, analyzing) graffiti from university libraries, mostly from public study areas. (I prefer to avoid latrinalia.) I’ve been told this makes me a folklorist.
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Crescat Graffiti website
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Novgorod Birchbark Letters
I’ve been working with the birchbark letters on and off since 2004, and am currently preparing some XML resources to facilitate crunching through that data.
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Medieval Slavic wiki
I’m gradually working on building a wiki for medieval Slavic that gathers all the facts, theories, and claims related to relevant topics in a single place. Imagine a specialist Wikipedia, where all the original sources are cited (down to the page), but you don’t have to comb through bibliographies and references in a giant heap of printed works or PDFs to see what’s been said by scholars.
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Bulgarian Dialect Atlas
My first major XML project, taking data from the printed Български диалектен атлас, marking it up in XML, and using XSLT to group the data in a variety of ways to help bring patterns in the data to light. Dynamic maps using the Google Maps API are also included.
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Photography
I’ve been taking at least one picture of something beautiful every day for nearly three years. I upload everything to Flickr, and have nearly 45,000 photographs stored there. They’re almost all freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, and have been used by the mainstream media, in books, magazines, and over a thousand websites worldwide. In addition to my library graffiti project, I have a number of mini-projects.
Primary Flickr site – my visual stream-of-consciousness
“Portfolio” Flickr site – selected photographs
Women, Snakes and Stalkers – wacky South Asian book covers with my often amusing interpretation of what’s going on
Outside the Lines figure drawing group – they kindly let me drop by and photograph them drawing nude models.
