Tag Archives: Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation
Digital Dwelling at Skara Brae: Glasgow Exhibition and Talk
Hello everyone and happy new year! I’ll be kick starting my year with a series of talks in January in both Glasgow (21st Jan) and York (29th Jan). The Glasgow talk will be at 12 pm so feel free to bring your lunch along with you! It will accompany a small exhibition in the archaeology […]
January Exhibition: Digital Dwelling at Skara Brae
In an earlier post I mentioned I’d be giving a talk and exhibiting the Skara Brae film and stills at the Archaeology Department at Glasgow Uni in December. Well as people seem to be dwindling in numbers in the run up to Christmas we decided it might work better if we have the exhibition in […]
What’s Coming Up in the next Few Months
As usual I’ve been ridiculously busy over the past few weeks and the blog has been a little neglected so here’s a little round up of what’s coming up in the next few months… 22nd-23rd October: DigiDoc 2012 Conference in Edinburgh where I’ll be presenting a poster on the use of laser scan data for […]
Back in the Office…
*Sigh* back at my desk! It’s always a bit of a come down after fieldwork to get back into the office! We had a brilliant week up in Orkney working between Skara Brae and Maeshowe and meeting with so many interesting people, from on site staff, to archaeologists and artists at our focus group at […]
Thinking About How to Think About Skara Brae
Today I spent the morning rummaging through books on Skara Brae in preparation for my upcoming fieldwork in May. I’ve been pulling together various papers, books and drawings which deal with interpretation of the site and its context, trying to decide what angle to adopt for the visualisations. As I skimmed through various accounts and interpretations […]
…I Know the Blackhouse is Supposed to be Smokey But…
Just thought I’d post a lightened version for all those folks who have said “Uhh…its a bit dark?” Click on the image to see a much larger version!
St Kilda Ranger’s Diary
This week I was invited to write an entry for the National Trust for Scotland’s St Kilda Ranger’s Diary by the lovely Gina Prior with whom the Scottish Ten team shared many a beer in the Puff Inn last summer! You can read the full article here. Here’s a sneak peak at the blackhouse in […]
Scottish Ten St Kilda: In the Press
Mike Brooks short film on our time scanning St Kilda. The STV piece on our work. The Scotsman article. The BBC article. And the BBC Radio bit about their visit.
Scanning on the Edge of the World
Well, first of all my apologies for taking my time to fill you all in on the last week of scanning on St Kilda! By the second week the thought of carrying my laptop down to the Factors House to use the internet after heaving scanners up hills, over streams and through muddy, sheep infested […]
