Morning Cup of Links: News by Typewriter
Journalism students at Florida Atlantic University recently constructed their special final summer issue of the student newspaper. They avoided all their digital equipment and did it the old-fashioned way: with typewriters, paste-up editing, and cameras with film. Part one and part two. (via Laughing Squid)
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The Hanging at Mankato. The story of the 1852 execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians is told in pictures and the memories of those who witnessed it.
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The Dark Knight Rises is the new Batman film in production now. See pictures of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman on her, um, Catcycle.
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Burning the Shelter. In this book excerpt, a Forest Service worker ponders the value of wiping out evidence of human intervention when humans are a part of the environment, too.
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Do you remember that athlete you were supposed to control in the game QWOP? The poor guy showed up at the main floor at Comic-Con.
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New hi-tech goggles convert visual data into sound. Once a blind person learns to use the device and interpret the audio, he can navigate by technology alone.
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A Day in California. A combination of stop-motion and tilt-shift video turns 10,000 photographs into a sweet video.
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One Man’s Hands: The Watts Towers. The iconic artworks in Los Angeles are Simon Rodia's labor of love.