Echoes of Forgotten Places
A short trailer for the film "Echoes of Forgotten Places" a film about Urban Exploration, Industrial Archaeology and the Aesthetics of Decay. Visit www.scribblemedia.com for more info. See my other videos for more IA stuff...
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Added: May 26, 2009, 2:01 am
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To Correct Mismatches: MutS Binding to a G:T Mismatch
Mismatched base pairs in newly replicated DNA are corrected by an ingenious mechanism of mismatch excision repair. The first step of mismatch recognition is carried out by a dimer of MutS protein. Intriguingly, two polypeptides (normal and darker ones) forming two tunnels to place DNA strands show asymmetrical binding (1E3M.pdb, Obmolova et al. Nature vol. 407, 703).
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Added: May 25, 2009, 3:05 am
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THE NEW TEARS OF ARAXES
Featuring a never-seen-before satellite image of a vandalized medieval cemetery at the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, "The New Tears of Araxes," a five-minute film, tells the tragic story of thousands of ancient Armenian headstones flattened to the ground by the Azerbaijani authorities in Djulfa or Julfa (Jugha in Armenian), Nakhichevan.
On December 15, 2005, eyewitnesses across the River Araxes videotaped Azeri soldiers destroying Armenian burial monuments - khachkars (cross stones) - some as old as 1,500 years. Azerbaijani officials denied the vandalism, but banned European Parliament members from visiting the site in March of 2006. Only a few outside news sources tried to publicize the tragedy.
"The New Tears of Araxes" is written by Sarah Pickman, a University of Chicago student, who was the only American reporter to cover the tragedy when she interned for Archaeology Magazine. Producer and narrator Simon Maghakyan, who is among America's top 20 college students according to USA TODAY (April 24, 2006), hopes the film will break a year of ignorance and silence. When asked why others should care, Maghakyan quotes Martin Luther King Jr. as saying, "Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere."
Music by Djivan Gasparian (Gladiator, The Passion of the Christ, Munich, Syriana); Digital sound track production by Transtar Entertainment Group; Photographs by Research on Armenian Architecture, and Argam Ayvazian; Footage of 2005 destruction by Tabriz's Armenian Church, Iran; Satellite image by Digital Globe; Map by The Times, London. © Simon Maghakyan 2006.
To learn more about the deliberate destruction of the world's largest Armenian archaeological site, visit the Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum - http://www.djulfa.com.
Sept 2007 update: Azerbaijani authorities are razing another Armenian cemetery in Baku, the capital city of the South Caucasus republic - http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=338840&apc_state=henfcrs338838
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Added: May 27, 2009, 10:56 am
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3D Modeling Pipeline for Archaeological Visualization
Archaeology is a destructive process in which accurate and detailed recording of a site is imperative. As a site is exposed, documentation is required in order to recreate and understand the site in context. We have developed a 3D modeling pipeline that can assist archaeologists in the documentation effort by building rich, geometrically and photometrically accurate 3D models of the site. The modeling effort begins with data acquisition (images, range scans, GIS data, and video) and ends with the use of a sophisticated visualization tool that can be used by researchers to explore and understand the site. The pipeline includes new methods for shadow-based registration of 2D images and temporal change detection. Our multimodal augmented reality system allows users wearing head-tracked, see-through, head-worn displays to visualize the site model and associated archaeological artifacts, and to interact with them using speech and gesture. (Authors: Peter Allen, Steven Feiner, Alejandro Troccoli, Hrvoje Benko, Edward Ishak, Ben Smith, Columbia University. Please visit http://www.edwardishak.com for more information.)
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Added: May 27, 2009, 12:28 pm
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The Naked Archaeologist Preview - Where is Mount Sinai?
He's the Ali G of archaeology! Simcha Jacobovici is The Naked Archaeologist. Watch his adventures on History International in the US,
Vision TV
in Canada and UKTV in the UK.
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Added: May 27, 2009, 12:30 pm
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