Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Unfortunately, to me it will always be Pan Am, even if Pan Am is gone. As is TWA. As is Polaroid. As is Lehman Brothers. As no doubt soon will be Chrysler, The New York Times, Ford, Kodak and someday in the not...
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Bell Telephone Pavilion, NY World’s Fair 1964-5 When I was a kid we went to the New York World’s Fair, and after waiting an interminable amount of time, we got into the Bell Telephone exhibit. It was one of...
Read moreWhat TV News Might Be
A different vision of what photography could be In 1955, Edward Steichen opened what was then a radical exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Read moreCatastrophe
Looks like we won’t be publishing on Monday… Some 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is today Mexico. The impact was so catastrophic that between the heat from...
Read moreThe Power of Viral
Guardian Angel It was an eye-opening education in the viral power of the 'new media' Yesterday, after a fairly long hiatus, I picked up on my blog.
Read moreA Case for a “King of News”?
Capable of seeing all sides of an argument… For many years now, I have been a resident of two countries, the USA and the UK. That ‘duality’ has taught me to look at the world from several perspectives at...
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