My Sneaker Museum

Montana Blanco

history of the athletic shoe, utilitarian usage, intersections of gender and race in dress,  media representation, vernacular, production and labor politics . . .

JOSIAH

Vanderbilt, Tom. The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and Icon. 

New York: New Press, 1998.

Eicher, Joanne, ed. Dress and Ethnicity: Change and Space Over Time.

Oxford; Washington D.C. : Berg, 1995

Tulloch, Carol, ed. Black Style. 

London; V&A Publications, 2004.

JSTOR

Dale Coye "The Sneakers/Tennis Shoe Boundary"

American Speech, Vol. 61. No. 4 (Winter, 1986) pp 366-369.

MY MERCURY MUSEUM

EFFECTS OF MERCURY POISONING?!?!*
(Image found on Google Images. Illustration by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)


From the Providence Public Library:

Emsley, John. Elements of Murder : The History of Poison
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.


From JSTOR:

Seiya Yamaguchi, Hisao Matsumoto, Sachiko Matsuo, Shunsuke Kaku and Michiyo Hoshide. “Relationship between Mercury Content of Hair and Amount of Fish Consumed”
HSMHA Health Reports, Vol. 86, No. 10 (Oct., 1971), pp. 904-909

Keith Spalding. “A Theory concerning the Mad Hatter”
The Modern Language Review, Vol. 46, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1951), pp. 442-444

Jeri Weiss, Luke Trip and Kathryn R. Mahaffey. “Human Exposures to Inorganic Mercury”
Public Health Reports (1974-), Vol. 114, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1999), pp. 400-401

ALSO,
Various websites, New York Times articles, etc.

-Jieun Reiner


*while many hatters did indeed suffer from severe mercury poisoning, the “Mad Hatter” created by Carroll did not exhibit true symptoms.

My Vinyl Museum

“Moreover, as one young collector and disc jockey explained to me, records have served as a ‘vinyl museum’ for the preservation and maintenance of Caleño popular culture and identity” (Lise Waxer. “Record Grooves and Salsa Dance Moves: The Viejoteca Phenomenon in Cali, Colombia” Popular Music, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 61-81)

JSTOR

Philip Auslander “Looking at Records” TDR (1988-), Vol. 45, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 77-83

Eric W. Rothenbuhler and John Durham Peters “Defining Phonography: An Experiment in Theory” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 242-264

Ebscohost

SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE. By: Christman, Ed. Billboard, 7/19/2008, Vol. 120 Issue 29, p26-26
Mastering Vinyl. (cover story) By: Robair, Gino. Electronic Musician, Mar2008, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p54-59
'It kind of gives you that vintage feel': vinyl records and the trope of death. By: Yochim, Emily Chivers; Biddinger, Megan. Media, Culture & Society, Mar2008, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p183-195

Josiah
Setting the record straight : a material history of classical recording
Symes, Colin, 1945-
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004
Fanning the flames : fans and consumer culture in contemporary Japan / edited by William W. Kelly Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2004 Descript'n ix, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm (Chapter 7: Vinyl record collecting as material practice : the Japanese case / Shuhei Hosokawa, Hideaki Matsuoka)

“The most recent technological development has, in any case, continued what was begun there: the possibility of inscribing music without it ever having sounded has simultaneously reified it in an even more inhuman manner and also brought it mysteriously closer to the character of writing and language.”
-The Form of the Phonograph Record
Theodor W. Adorno and Thomas Y. Levin
October, Vol. 55, (Winter, 1990), pp. 56-61

Jonathan Coleman

Perfume Museum

Kristen Schindler

Josiah (books)

The Perfume Industry of Mycenaean Pylos/Cynthia Wright Shelmerdine

Fragrance: The psychology and biology of perfume/S. van Toller and G.H. Dodd

JSTOR (articles)

Kewda Perfume Industry in India/P.K. Dutta, H.O. Saxena, and M. Brahmam

New York Times 

Fragrance Market is Establishing a Foothold in China/Chandler Burr

The perfume market, how it's made, and how far back in history the notion of perfume goes are things I want to further explore.

MUSEUM of FALSE TEETH

G. W.'S FALSE TEETH

Journal Articles (from JSTOR)

Crubézy, E., Murail, P., Girard, L., Bernadou, J.-P. "False Teeth of the Roman World". Nature 391 (1998): 29.

Jones, David. "Falsified Teeth." Nature 353 (1991): 608.

Orellana, Claudia. "False accounts for False Teeth in Germany." The Lancet 360 (2002): 1849.  

Images from Google Image Search

Books (Josiah)

Wynbrandt, James. The Excruciating History of Dentistry. New York: St Martin's, 1998.

Books (Google Books)

Woodforde, John. The Strange Story of False Teeth. London: Routlege, 1968.

"I imagine so," said Verily. "In fact, one of his extraordinary talents is the ability to see through the hexes of illusion. Did you know that? ... For instance, he sees through the hex you use to keep people from seeing that little trick you play with your false teeth. Did you know that?"

"Trick!" She was mortified. "False teeth! What a terrible thing to say!"

"Do you or do you not have false teeth?"

Marty Laws was on his feet. "Your honor, I can't see what relevancy false teeth have to the matter at hand." ...

"False teeth is a bit personal, don't you think?" asked the Judge.

"And accusing my client of seducing her isn't?" asked Verily. 

The judge smiled. "Objection overruled. I think the prosecution opened the door wide enough for such questions."

FROM ALVIN JOURNEYMAN, BY ORSON SCOTT CARD: FOUND BY GOOGLE BOOKS SEARCH

PABLO LARIOS

My Microprocessor Museum

From Google:
Intel Education. "Inside the Manufacturing Process; how chips are made." Intel Corporation. Accessed: 4 Oct 2008. http://www.intel.com/education/makingchips/index.htm

From Harper's Magazine Archives:
Turner, Frederick W. "Escape From Modernism: technology and the future of the imagination".
Harper's Magazine. November 1984. http://harpers.org/archive/1984/11/0025490

From EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier:
"Computers and Telecommunications." World Almanac & Book of Facts. EBSCOhost. 4 Oct 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24123414&site=ehost-live

From EBSCOhost Historical Abstracts:
Zatlin, Jonathan R. "Out of Sight: industrial espionage, ocular authority, and east german communism, 1965-1989." Contemporary European History. 2008 17(1). EBSCOhost. 4 Oct 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hia&AN=H800041768.01&site=ehost-live


--Nick Greene

Jordan's New Object - Condoms

So I've completely decided against constructing my museum around glass pipes/marijuana. Instead, I'm composing my museum on condoms - the history of their design (latex,non-latex,etc.), their purpose, their social ramifications, their conflicts with religion, and the disparity between condom usage in Western civilizations and that of African nations (where HIV is running ramped).

-My sources thus far are as follows (once again acquired through JSTOR):

Wulfert, Edelgard, and Choi Wan. "Safer Sex Intentions and Condom Use Viewed from a Health Belief, Reasoned Action, and Social Cognitive Perspective." The Journal of Sex Research 4(1995): 299-311.

Jobling, Paul. "The Politics of Pleasure and Gender in the Promotion of Condoms in Britain, 1970-1982." Journal of Design History 10(1997): 53-70.

Morroni, Chelsea, Jennifer Smit, Lynn McFadyen, and Mmabatho Mqhayi. "Dual Protection against Sexually Transmitted Infections and Pregnancy in South Africa." African Journal of Reproductive Health. 7(2003): 13-19.

Smit, Jennifer, Lynn McFeyden, Harrison Abigail, and Khangelani Zuma. "Where is the Condom? Contraceptive Practice in a Rural District of South Africa." Women's Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC). 6(2002): 71-78.

Walsh, Terri, Ron Frezieres , Karen Peacock, and Anita Nelson. "Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Nonlatex Condom: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 35(2003): 79-86.