Library news for Artists http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts Information on new art resources at UCL Library Thu, 30 May 2013 08:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Flexipop! http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2013/05/30/flexipop/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2013/05/30/flexipop/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 08:27:41 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1419 Flexipop

Flexipop issue 1

Seminal early ’80s music magazine Flexipop! can be found online at the Music Mags 1970s-1980s blog. The magazine, which was launched in 1980 and lasted two years, featured a free free flexi disc with each issue. Each issue is digitised in full, including all adverts and editorial material, and is an excellent example of ’80s graphic design and pop culture. The blog also features a Flexipop discography.

]]> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2013/05/30/flexipop/feed/ 0 ZineWiki: the independent media wikipedia http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/zinewiki-the-independent-media-wikipedia/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/zinewiki-the-independent-media-wikipedia/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:29:16 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1391 ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.

]]> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/zinewiki-the-independent-media-wikipedia/feed/ 0 The Zine & E-Zine Resource Guide http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/the-zine-e-zine-resource-guide/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/the-zine-e-zine-resource-guide/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:17:35 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1388 Sniffin GlueThe Zine and E-Zine Resource Guide is a collection of essays focusing on the history of zines and the underground press scene. Essays include Stephen Perkins’ ‘Approaching the ’80s zine scene: a background survey and selected annotated bibliography’, with chapters on punk zines, mail art, and artists’ magazines.

]]> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/08/the-zine-e-zine-resource-guide/feed/ 0 New services at the British Library http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/02/new-services-at-the-british-library/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/10/02/new-services-at-the-british-library/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:28:18 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1381 British LibraryThe British Library is making available three new sound and moving image services in its Reading Rooms:

BBC Pilot Service
A trial service bringing together the BBC’s programme catalogue, Radio Times data and BBC television and radio programmes recorded off-air from mid-2007 to the end of 2011. There are approximately 2.2 million catalogue records and 190,000 playable programmes, both television and radio.

Broadcast News
This service provides access to daily television and radio news programmes from seventeen channels (fifteen TV, two radio) broadcast in the UK since May 2010, recorded off-air by the British Library.

TRILT (Television & Radio Index for Learning & Teaching)
TRILT is a database of all UK television and radio broadcasts since 2001 (and selectively back to 1995). It covers every channel, every broadcast and every repeat, some 15 million records so far and growing by a million per year.

More information here.

 

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Tyne & Wear Archives

Flikr: the Commons is a collection of image archives donated by cultural institutions from around the world, free to use under the Creative Commons licence. Institutions who have donated collections include The New York Public Library, National Galleries of Scotland, Getty Research Institute and many more.

]]> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/09/25/the-commons-on-flikr/feed/ 0 Jackson Pollock: Lights, Camera, Paint! (1951) http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/09/22/jackson-pollock-lights-camera-paint-1951/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/09/22/jackson-pollock-lights-camera-paint-1951/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:33:57 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1346 Jackson Pollock 51Jackson Pollock 51, Hans Namuth’s ten minute film of the artist painting on glass, can be streamed at Open Culture.

]]> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2012/09/22/jackson-pollock-lights-camera-paint-1951/feed/ 0 Poor.Old.Tired.Horse http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2011/09/22/poor-old-tired-horse-2/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/2011/09/22/poor-old-tired-horse-2/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:07:01 +0000 L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-arts/?p=1338 houedardA selection of concrete poetry is also now available at Ubuweb, including a complete run of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s legendary magazine, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse, 1962-1968. Also here are several examples of visual poetry by Dom Sylvester Houedard, a pioneer of British concrete poetry and typewriter-driven typstracts.

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