Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter, 1885. pic.twitter.com/Un1rP1d…
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) January 7, 2019
Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter, 1885.
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Why We All Take the Same Travel Photos
You can hurry through your trip snapping the same pix as everybody else, or you can use the camera as a tool to help you really see and experience your trip. [Laura Malone] www.wired.com/story/why…
New York City photos , 1977-85, through a taxicab windshield
“I once picked up a guy from the Hellfire club, an S&M club, and by the time I dropped him off on the Upper East Side, he had changed his leather cap and everything and put on a pink oxford shirt and some penny loafers. ‘Good morning, sir,’ the doorman said.”
“Madame Abomah” traveled the world in the late 19th Century as the world’s tallest woman
Madam Abomah. Born sometime around 1862, she traveled all over the world as the tallest woman in the world. She was billed as being 7'6? tall, but evidence suggested she was more in the 6'10 range. More photos: t.co/jY2fW3lVma pic.twitter.com/DsZoeXT…
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) December 16, 2018
Anthony Perkins on the set of Psycho, 1960
On Reddit: “I heard you guys liked the 80s? Well here’s my old breakdancing crew, the Suburban Street Rockers, in 1985.”
Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger, 1983
Farrah with some hairy guy
Laundry day, New York, 1900
On Reddit: “Me and my best friend Rocky watching TV, 1959”
Model T lunch wagon, 1919
U.S. Washington, D.C., in 1919. Sandwich vendor. Model T lunch wagon. Check out for more pics: t.co/zAy54HGieO pic.twitter.com/9ITu17w…
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) November 27, 2018
On Reddit: “I peaked at age four, 1991”
Grocery shopping, 1960s
Stan Lee at 1975 Comic-Con
Digitizing history
The New York Times is using Google AI to digitize 5-7 million historical photos.
The newspaper’s “morgue” has 5 million to 7 million photos dating back to the 1870s, including prints and contact sheets showing all the shots on photographers’ rolls of film. The Times is using Google’s technology to convert it into something more useful than its current analog state occupying banks of filing cabinets.
Specifically, it’s using Google AI tools to recognize printed or handwritten text describing the photos and Google’s storage and data analysis services, the newspaper said. It plans to investigate whether object recognition is worthwhile, too.
[Stephen Shankland/CNET]
” … maybe i’ll just QUIT my job and live in a van down by the river”
Yep, Facebook censored me when I posted the ‘napalm girl’ photo
I actually posted it twice, in connection with two separate articles. The first article is still up, and it’s also here on the public web.
However, Facebook deleted a second instance, which is here on the public web.
Facebook also issued me a warning. I think it suspended my account briefly — not sure; the notices went by quickly.
And Facebook required me to go through my photo album to be sure I don’t have any more nude photos in there. I did not look at each one, just thought for a second about whether I remembered posting any nude photos, decided I hadn’t, and clicked OK.
This is a big reason why I consider mitchwagner.com my home on the web even though far more people interact with me on social media. Social media is fickle.
