This afternoon I had beer with a friend at a local brewery. Not extraordinary – one can’t leave the house […]
Archive for ‘Ruminations’
Digitalization: Colorizing Holocaust victims makes them less abstract. “My Goal Since the Beginning Was to Individualize the Victims”
“By colorizing their photographs, they become less abstract. They are no longer just representing something old, a historical event that happened so many years ago.” For the Faces of Auschwitz project, photo colorist Marina Amaral transforms photos of Holocaust victims.
High-speed Trains
Am I the only American who thinks it’s absolutely criminal that we don’t have high-speed trains in the United States […]
My Obsession with Mosaics
“…but beautiful mosaics are made out of broken pieces” — Lori Jenessa Nelson Traveling through Europe there are plenty of […]
Church Walking
If you’re lucky enough to be spending time in a European city that allows free entry into churches then I […]
After Ada
One hundred years after Ada Lovelace – the visionary who imagined ‘the analytical engine’ – the field of software development […]
