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Politics
spins a new web - Hopefuls turn to interactive sites to click
with new voters
Politics spins a new web Hopefuls turn to interactive sites to click with new voters These candidates have been burned on the Internet. Read their stories on 13A. Jim Morrill When Democrat Larry Kissell started running for Congress a few months ago, he'd never heard of a couple of guys called "Anglico" and "Targater," or their new project, BlueNC.com. Tech-savvy Republican Vernon Robinson hadn't heard of YouTube when he launched his congressional campaign. And Thomas Ravenel, a GOP candidate for S.C. treasurer, never had a MySpace profile. Now those sites are helping each of the three tap into money and support, and in some cases, build a national following. Museum artwork becomes interactive
But you want to know more. Who was the artist? What did he think about? What did the artist want to accomplish with his work? What did others think about him? Was he at the height of his creativity with this work or just at the beginning of his career? The questions are endless and the little card is silent. To find out more, you would have to find someone on the museum staff or go to a book or nowadays, go to the Internet. To make it easy for you to find out more about art and artists, the Amarillo Museum of Art has embarked on the Marcus Project, which aims to bring images, audio and video information to the viewer via computers and the Internet. The museum plans to document its permanent collection and current exhibits and turn that information into educational materials, said Jacob Breeden, curator of education.
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If
you visit a museum and see a painting on the wall that catches
your attention, do you ever want to know more about it? Chances
are you want to know more than the bit of information on the
card affixed to the wall next to the picture. That little card
probably tells you who painted the picture, maybe when, where
and the medium.