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Emerging museum professional. MA Public History and Curatorial Studies. Him/him/il. Ottawa, ON. 🇨🇦
I had been shopping this paper to journals during my MA, but now that I've graduated I figured it was time to upload it to a public repository and just get it out there.
It's a piece about antisemitic tropes in Weimar cinema, specifically "The Golem" and "Nosferatu".
I was reading one of Gerald Brown's guides on non-glass insulators, and he included a letter from Continental Rubber Works.
According to this letter, these rubber insulators were introduced in part because bored hunters in rural areas used to use glass insulators for target practice.
This is a formal parliamentary petition to move the Canadian government and associated agencies off of X. Well worth it for fellow Canadians to sign.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Weekend trip to Quebec City. Outside the Chateau Frontenac.
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A smartphone photo of a d'Arsonval galvanometer. It looks like a three-legged stand of black metal with two brass screw connections (where it would be wired into a circuit). The top is stacked with a series of nearly-circular magnets. The text "Queen D'Arsonval Galvanometer" is inscribed on the base.
Discovered some hitherto unnoticed markings on a galvanometer. This is a D'Arsonval-type, first developed in 1882. They utilized a stack of stationary magnets, which made the device less susceptible to stray magnetic fields.
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A smartphone photo of a hand in a purple disposable glove holding a neon light bulb. The bulb has an electrode in the shape of a male saint holding a child. A handwritten tag dangles off the side.
Something we unpacked at Ingenium while doing collections review.
This is a neon glow lamp with the image of a saint inside (possibly Saint Christopher). My guess is that this is one of those glow lamps that has two plates positioned too close together so that it flickers like a candle flame.
Apologies for the asinine comment, but it's giving me JRPG vibes (like a world map from an early "Final Fantasy" game).
Funny how a shift in perspective can do that!
Tickets are now on sale for our next edition of Naled Boys Reading, coming up this Monday, January 20th at LIVE! on Elgin.
I actually curated this show. The readings are the original source material that inspired some of Broadway's biggest hits.
nbr64.eventbrite.ca
A short piece I wrote for Ingenium's channel blog detailing some of my takeaways doing collections research with their musical instruments.
ingeniumcanada.org/channel/arti...
Reposting this here.
It's a short piece I wrote for the online public history magazine Epoch about reading invisibility as a form of queer representation in institutional photography, specifically through an examination of the RCAF journal The Roundel.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/invisib...
Hello folx!
My name is Nicholas. I'm an Ottawa-based museum professional currently doing collections research with Ingenium at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In my spare time, I co-produce Ottawa's chapter of the international literary salon Naked Boys Reading.
