Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Dear Lizzie, RIP Letters To Lizzie Colonial Legacy

 


Stories from inside Commonwealth processes, as a witness to the tumultuous currents swirling at its centre threatening to burst its banks in the processes of empowering and tooling Commonwealth civil society to utilise the access afforded by new media to augment their voices while participating and provoking the Commonwealth’s interrogation of itself over the past two decades Letters to Lizzie morphs from lilbits Tweets in 120 characters to the MultiMedia MicroEpic.

From her birth with television and electronic media to the age of new media, the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth reaches beyond the colonial legacy of her ancestry,

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https://krisrampersad.com/dear-lizzie-rip-colonial-legacy-in-lilbits-letters-to-lizzie-morphs-into-multimedia-microepic/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ__KsqxcJM

Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Tomb Raiders .... Return to the Quest for El Dorado


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Tombraiding has been Hollywood glamourised through the Indiana Joneses and Lara Crofts and a range of new video games that play on this land-based version of the kind of piracy that used to prevail on the high seas around the Caribbean. And it dates back to the Caribbean as a target in the quest for El Dorado so many millennia ago. Not to be confused with body snatchers, it ranges from the activities of hobbyists seemingly innocently eager to hoard a bit of history so they comb graveyards to gather bits and pieces from or off tombs, to petty thieves looking to earn a quick shilling, to highly organised crime networks trading in black market heritage goods with complicity by individual collectors or even museum dealers participating in a very lucrative heritage trade market.

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