MMAP 2010

MMAP 2010 Amy’s Blog: A Virtual Excavation in Laos.

“I slipped on a banana peel walking home from the internet cafe. I’m not sure if this has ever happened to anyone in the past century who was not a cartoon or a vaudvillian with a handle bar mustache. There are little bananas everywhere. They are the perfect size. By the time you get to the end of a regular banana you’re just about sick of the mealy yellowness, but these are the most perfect three-bite snacks. Unless you happen to slip on one…”

Amy is the Digital Media Developer at the Penn Museum. She accompanyed MMAP for the 2010 (January 1-17) season in Luang Prabang to document the project on video and on her blog. Amy conducted interviews with the excavators and recorded her own personal experiences touring the countryside in her daily posts.