Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km and currently has just over five million inhabitants. It is also the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Sicily is directly adjacent to the Italian region of Calabria, via the Strait of Messina to the east. The early Roman name for Sicily was Trinacria, alluding to its [...]
The occurrence and development of electronic means of communication brought about a very useful tool – the webcam, whose role is to make real conversation and seeing each other at the same time possible. The MSN webcam, like other webcam models, is a video capturing device which is connected to computers or computer networks. It [...]
Across many parts of the world on February 14th, many flowers, cards and gifts will be exchanged between loved ones, as St. Valentine’s day is celebrated.
However, the story of why we celebrate this day is a bit of a mystery:
The traditions of St. Valentine’s Day mix elements of both ancient Roman rites and Christian tradition.To [...]
If you have not witnessed a Space Shuttle launch live from the Kennedy Space Centre, then there are a few opportunities this month to watch a launch through the live webcam at Cape Canaveral. Space Shuttle Endeavour’s countdown to launch goes on inside the Firing Room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre which is located on [...]
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Wildlife park employees in Scotland were celebrating Thursday the birth of a white rhinocerous — an event they would have missed without the tip of a webcam viewer.
Blair Drummond Safari Park north of Edinburgh was alerted to the impending birth by a phone call from the woman thousands of miles (kilometers) away [...]
The word is out, folks, and we’ve even got a link back to it that says that the international space station has officially set up its own webcam feed.
For those of you out there who are space buffs and righteously torqued that the Obama Administration’s entire plan for NASA appears to be “watch global warming”, [...]
Celebrations for New Year begin from New Year’s Eve on 31st December. This is the last day of the Gregorian calendar and the day before New Year’s Day. The idea behind New Year’s Eve celebration is to bid adieu to the year gone by and give a warm welcome to the coming year. Popular way [...]
A new webcam will start broadcasting images – a picture that is closer and clearer than the past nesting season’s camera – from the famous Turtle Bay bald eagles’ nest starting today, said Sharon Dale, animal programs manager at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. “The public want it closer so they can see the eggs and [...]
Isabelle Jenniches: Webcam Works
Solo exhibition (closing)
October 2 – November 6, 2009
Cabrillo Gallery
6500 Soquel Drive, Room 1002 (below library) at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM – 4 PM, Monday & Tuesday evenings 7 – 9PM
Jenniches’ fascination for live cameras on the Internet – webcams – began over a decade ago. She’s used webcams [...]
The first webcam began operating in 1991, the same year as Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, and had its origins in an even more important topic in computer science: the flow of caffeine around a research group. The group, based in Cambridge University’s computer lab and led by Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, had a problem: the [...]