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Welcome to H-PCAACA, a member of the H-NET Humanities Online initiative. H-PCAACA encourages scholarly collaboration and discussion about popular, American and world cultures. This network, affiliated with The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, also serves as an invitation for scholars and graduate students to join the activities of these internationally recognized organizations.
Somewhere among all the links in my belated contribution to H-PCAACA's Space in Popular Culture month, one more link was lost. Here is the video Poetic Kinetics produced documenting Escape Velocity's construction and appearance at Coachella.
35th Ephemera Society of America Annual Conference, March 20-22, 2015, Old Greenwich, CT
March 20 through Sunday, March 22, 2015 is ESA35 – the thirty-fifth annual conference of the Ephemera Society of America, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Interrogating the In-between: UNSW Humanities and Languages Postgraduate Research Conference 2015
School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Friday June 12th 2015
Conference papers invited to explore the literary, cultural, and theoretical aspects of food and feasting in traditional outlaw narratives, or texts that have characters who are outsiders, tricksters, transgressors, or marginals. This session will consider the presence and function of food and feast in texts (broadly defined), with an eye to considering whether and how instances of food preparation and eating can be said to display, to develop, or to subvert the conventional ideas of community and fellowship most commonly associated with foods and feasts.
An argument could be made that any exhibit in a museum is part of popular culture. Galileo’s geometric compass helped navigators use the stars to traverse distances, and then it became an outdated bit of scrap, and then it becomes something different once placed in a museum and available for view.
#GiantAstonaut at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It's difficult to capture to full scale of the sculpture--it's really big--in a way that doesn't feel too cramped--it feels surprisingly light and airy in the enormous space it occupies.
Patrick Cox's face projected on the face of the #GiantAstronaut at the Science Musem of Minnesota. Note the personalized nametag.
The Giant Astronaut at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It's difficult to capture a picture of the creation that captures it's size. It's enormous.
