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The parsed source is outdated and probably will be forever because it's crowd-sourced and can't keep up with changing exhibitions and lendings of paintings, which is a common thing.
The use case where I check my phone to find a painting or an artist near me also seems far fetched. A better scenario would be to have a map with museums near me and up-to-date information what they currently exhibit. You would need better sources for that.
On the technical side it's quite slow at the moment but the blown up thumbnails (where the Athenaeum also had thumbnails for fair use reasons but in a better quality) were not nice. I would keep them in their original ratio.
I assume that this was probably more an excercise to test-drive some new tech.
Direct link: http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/UnitySetup-4.3.0.exe
I also wonder why the images or better the whole site isn't responsive? I would also add a link to one of the sources.
Also: a calendar and feature to semi-personalize it, by simply using cookies to store series "to watch". Merge both for a semi-personalized calendar.
Speaking of "Episodes", this series is missing ;-)
They should make that easier to discover.
But I really like his letter. He is ready to bootstrap his idea of cutting open a really large human and putting him in a fiberglass box. He should sue Gunther von Hagens and his Body Worlds.