Title: The Bosworth Letters

URL: http://bosworthletters.vtcath.org/

Description: This project provides access to selected letters from the “Squire Bosworth Papers” collection (1848-1892), which Virginia Tech’s Special Collections recently digitized. While these documents are now available worldwide, the letters will be difficult for most people to read because they are handwritten and discuss non-contemporary topics. Therefore, this project carefully presents and transcribes selected letters from this collection.

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Subject:   Bosworth Family,  correspondence,  Civil War

Title: Writing Images: Blending Drawings and Code

URL: http://www.alisujinkim.com/thesis/

Description: Drawing has long been known to show the thought process of the artist because of its physical immediacy and the way it encourages fast, informal iteration. In contrast , the history of programming has been toward a universal language that can tackle common challenges homogeneously. This MFA Thesis uses the principles of rule-based and generative art to cross the borders between drawing and coding.

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Subject:   Art

Title: Desire and Hope

URL: http://www.rezatasooji.com/thesis/

Description: "Desire and Hope" is three short animations. The main concept in these three animations is human desires; the goal in each animation was to explore a ways to tell this concept by adding some level of ambiguity, so viewers can watch it through their own vision.

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Title: ImageBase

URL: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/

Description: Homepage for ImageBase with select images digitized by Special Collections and University Archives in the Virginia Tech University Libraries.

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Subject:   Libraries

Title: Love and Suspense in Paris Noir: Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth

URL: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/love_and_suspense/index/

Description: Taking readers on an itinerant journey through Jake Lamar’s novel Rendezvous Eighteenth, Tyechia Thompson, practitioner of Black Paris, explores narratives of African-American expatriates in Lamar’s life, his Paris, and his work. Unfolding in six different paths, this interactive literary analysis pulls together interviews with Jake Lamar and relevant videos, showing Lamar’s chosen setting of the Eighteenth Arrondissement and treatment of race as a departure from contemporary fiction of its type. Introducing the “different side of Paris” through narrator Ricky Jenks, Lamar centers his novel on the lesser known parts of the city, enabling direct challenges to migration narratives of inclusion and racially utopic France. Building a new layer of analysis in each path, Thompson demonstrates a flexible approach to text, showing the complexities of Rendezvous Eighteenth in both form and content.

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Subject:   Black Paris,  Jake Lamar

Title: ETDs for Virginia Tech Authors and Advisors

URL: https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/etds/

Description: Homepage for the ETDs for Virginia Tech Authors and Advisors at the Virginia Tech University Libraries.

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Subject:   Libraries

Title: Calvary

URL: https://zachbush.com/calvary

Description: Calvary is a 3D fictional cathedral that is viewable in a virtual reality space that is based around Christian beliefs. The goal of this space is to invite the viewer, whether a Christian or non-Christian, into this once spiritual realm and explore the area and sounds that are immersed throughout. The HTC Vive is a new way in which a person can be in a virtual space and experience God without being within a physical structure like a tabernacle or cathedral. Calvary helps connect the viewer between the real and the supernatural.

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Subject:   3D,  virtual reality