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Drone captures Harvard’s campus in winter

Posted on February 24, 2015 by mkocol

Drone captures Harvard’s campus in winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxZE0dPeKE&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-facebook-general

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Discarded Books, Recovered Nostalgia

Posted on February 4, 2015 by mkocol

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/discarded-books-recovered-nostalgia/?smid=nytimesphoto&_r=0

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Tracking Down Lewis Hine’s Forgotten Child Laborers

Posted on February 4, 2015 by mkocol

A compelling story: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/27/tracking-down-lewis-hines-forgotten-child-laborers/#1

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Guy Laramée’s beautiful landscapes carved from old books

Posted on January 27, 2015 by mkocol

Guy Laramée’s beautiful landscapes carved from old books:http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/11/guy-laramees-book-sculptures/​

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meanwhile at Imaging Services at Harvard University…

Posted on June 10, 2013 by mkocol

“New Lincoln math pages suggest more education” and Bob Zinck scanned them: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57588329/math-pages-suggest-lincoln-had-more-education/ see both photos here: http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/undated-photo-provided-permission-houghton-library-harvard-university-photo-214039683.html

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Abelardo Morell lecture: My Life in Pictures – So Far

Posted on April 16, 2013 by mkocol

lecture this Sunday at MassArt: Abelardo Morell: My Life in Pictures – So Far Sunday, April 21, 2013, 2:00 pm Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA FREE and open to the public! http://www.bu.edu/prc/lectures.htm

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Photog accuses Getty Images of loaning images to CafePress instead of licensing them

Posted on April 8, 2013 by mkocol

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/04/06/getty-allegedly-allowing-cafepress-to-borrow-images-instead-of-licensing-them/ http://remithornton.com/news/13768623/terminated

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meanwhile at the The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Museum in San Marino, California…

Posted on February 27, 2013 by mkocol

http://huntingtonblogs.org/2013/02/a-library-of-last-resort/ “The counterintuitive result of all of these efforts,” concludes Zeidberg, “is that the more we digitize our own copies—and identify what we have to a wider audience—the more scholars want to see the originals.”

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Cameras Capture Falling Snowflakes in 3D

Posted on January 17, 2013 by mkocol

“Snowflake Bentley” would have luuuuved this: http://news.yahoo.com/cameras-capture-falling-snowflakes-3d-210657746.html   Who’s Snowflake Bentley, you may ask?: http://snowflakebentley.com/

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The World’s Smallest Wet Plate Camera

Posted on January 15, 2013 by mkocol

look! a baby camera! http://www.petapixel.com/2011/11/21/the-worlds-smallest-wet-plate-camera/

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