My family has a long tradition of scanning my grandparent’s titanic collection of slides using a specially built slide scanner. In terms of numbers, we’re talking at least 10,000 slides. You would delicately extract each minuscule slide from its case, place it in the scanner, press a button, wait 2 seconds, and then repeat. This […]
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The Invisible Museum
There’s an interesting relationship between historical information and the audiences intended to receive it. The transmission of that information is a phenomenon that encompasses a wide range of interactions: lecturing teachers, popular history books, museums of all shapes and sizes, and now, mobile apps. It’s weird to slot the app experience into this pre-existing assortment […]