Smarthistory: The Blog

I have to admit I am having a lot of fun searching google videos for tourist films of sites that we teach in the Survey course. I also just noticed that you can download these for a video iPod, which is very cool. Here’s one that conveys what it is like to visit St. Peters Basilica today:

And Hagia Sophia which I have been dreaming of for years…

Christopher Racette

from http://cafesiena.blogspot.com/

A long time ago, I blogged about the new kinds of art history images that were available on Flickr. Check out this very cool video. Now our students can get a sense with these kinds of videos — raw, tourist-y — of the experience of looking at works of art. This is so different from the types of images or videos we are used to using, which were all clean and polished, usually shot when no people were around, de-contextualized…