{"id":238,"date":"2008-08-29T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-08-29T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T12:40:00","slug":"back-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/back-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SLf7VYSlonI\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/PwrvTipFnZc\/s1600-h\/08_29_SumerianBeer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SLf7VYSlonI\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/PwrvTipFnZc\/s320\/08_29_SumerianBeer.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239933036185100914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Beth\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>What with traveling this summer and Tropical Storm Fay, I haven&#8217;t had much access to the Internet lately. Now school has started, and I&#8217;m looking forward to the classes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking History &amp; Theory of Graphic Design this semester. The textbook is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0471699020\/bethleecallbo-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Meggs&#8217; History of Graphic Design<\/span><\/a> but I&#8217;ve also bought Johanna Drucker&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0132410753\/bethleecallbo-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide<\/span><\/a>, written with Emily McVarish.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting links from the first week of class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ancientscripts.com\/\">Ancientscripts.com<\/a> has a lot of information about writing systems. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientscripts.com\/ws_timeline.html\">timeline<\/a> visually shows which writing systems existed when and for how long.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/davidszondy.com\/future\/timecapsule\/pioneer.htm\">wonderfully weird plaque<\/a> was designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake as a greeting from earth to any aliens who might come across the Pioneer 10 &amp; 11 space probes that were launched in 1972. It&#8217;s an interesting look at our own cultural skew. No language was included for obvious reasons, but isn&#8217;t an arrow a culturally derived symbol as well? In ancient Rome it was considered perfectly fine for men to be depicted nude but only prostitutes and low-class women were depicted nude. I guess 2,000 years is a blink of the eye: public outcry in 1972 caused this poor woman&#8217;s genitals to be erased \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a couple of amusing links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anchorbrewing.com\/beers\/ninkasi.htm\">Sumerian Beer Project<\/a> \u2014 History has shown that when people quit hunting\/gathering and settle down in one place, three new elements of life emerge: writing, religion, and beer. For the Sumerians, one of the first agricultural civilizations, all three were interwoven. Again, 5,000 years is but the blink of an eye, although the technology has mutated: today it&#8217;s television, football, and beer, right?   <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upennmuseum.com\/cuneiform.cgi\">Write like a Babylonian<\/a> \u2014 See your monogram in cuneiform, the way an ancient Babylonian might have written it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with traveling this summer and Tropical Storm Fay, I haven&#8217;t had much access to the Internet lately. Now school has started, and I&#8217;m looking forward to the classes. I&#8217;m taking History &amp; Theory of Graphic Design this semester. The textbook is Meggs&#8217; History of Graphic Design but I&#8217;ve also bought Johanna Drucker&#8217;s new book, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/back-in-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back in school&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}