When I was walking by the car wash on 7th Avenue and 20th Street in Brooklyn, this Jurassic Park themed jeep made me do a double take. Zoom in for its dino surprises on the cargo rack.
Tag: Photos
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Where Does the Tiny Door Lead?
I saw this mysterious fairy door next to a normal sized door in Brooklyn awhile back.
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Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE 2.0) 2014
For the second Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE 2.0) in 2014, I went with my Georgia Tech Library colleagues Sherri Brown, Lizzy Rolando, Alison Valk, and Wendy Hagenmaier (I wrote about the first VCFSE and shared photos last week here).
For me, it was great to bridge my professional and hobby worlds–one about studying and preserving our software and hardware digital culture and one about geeking out about retrocomputing–fixing it, using it, and playing with it. Sharing this event with my colleagues who were also negotiating these two overlapping worlds made it memorable to me.
Below, I share photos from the Digital Archivists presentation panel and photos of the Apple Pop-Up Museum and other installed exhibits, and many photos from the individual exhibitor hall.
When we first got there, we had a chance to talk with the founder Lonnie Mimms (right) who was wearing a green t-shirt emblazoned with the rebranding for the space as the Computer Museum of America.
Digital Archivists Panel
Wendy and I co-presented about “Digital Archives and Vintage Computing at Georgia Tech” during the Digital Archivists panel. Our notes from the event can be found here.
Digital PDP-8
MITS Altair 8800
IMSAI 8080
Apple I in Wood Case
Apple I Motherboard
Apple II
Apple Disk II, Serial Number 00001
Apple II Plus
Apple IIe
Apple IIc
Apple III Prototype Board and Production Model
Commodore PET
Hewlett Packard 85
IBM Personal Computer
IBM Portable PC
IBM PC AT
Apple Lisa
Apple Macintosh
Apple PiPPiN
BeBox
As I’ve written before here and here, I really like BeOS, so it was a special joy to see a BeBox in person for the first time at VCFSE 2.0.
Datapoint 2200
Kenbak-1
Miscellaneous Displays
Exhibition Hall
MITS Altair 8800 in Operation
MITS Altair 680
Amiga 1000
Miscellaneous Computers in the Exhibition Hall
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Silent Side Street at Night During the First Year of COVID
Y and I go for evening walks after dinner. I took the photo above on one such walk during June of 2020. The city was relatively quiet during the day, but it was even more so at night. This is a one-way side street between Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. Residences–some might have once been stables–are on the right side and the back of neighboring residences are on the left. In the background on the left side is a small park.
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Avatar the Exhibition at the EMP in Seattle 2012
Two years earlier, Y and I had presented papers at the 2010 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Conference in Carefree, Arizona on Avatar (2009). She approached the film through a critical postcolonial perspective and questioned the film’s white savior trope. I used Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden as a lens for exploring how the film was made–technology used to create an Edenic world (you can read my paper here).
We enjoyed watching the first Avatar film a few times in the theaters. It was an immersive experience. With Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), we saw it at home, which was a different experience. It was enjoyable but altogether different than the first time we had imaginatively been to Pandora. A lot of years had passed and the world had changed due to COVID.
Pandora
Na’vi and Avatars
AMP Suit
Props and Equipment
Virtual Camera
Big Boots to Fill
