Somewhere between starting the Whole Earth Catalog, developing its successor, the WELL, and participating in Kesey's Acid Experiments, Stewart Brand has developed a personal interest in anthropology. One of his latest endeavors, The Long Now Foundation (which promotes long-term thinking--both into the future and back to the past), posted a link to Traditions of the Sun on its website, and listed it as a source of inspiration. Traditions of the Sun is a NASA project for cultivating enthusiasm for the sun. It documents two archaeological sites, whose former inhabitants worshipped the sun: Chaco Canyon and a handful of sites on the Yucatan Peninsula.
The website is visually enticing, although a little hectic. Most information that visitors may garner from the webpage is visual. There are maps of the sites of interest, with the options to view many places at ground level.
The website provides some inspiration for our class project, but it also leaves me longing for some textual information as well. I will consider this shortcoming when developing my final project.
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