Tag: Century

By Artists, I mean photographers who considered photography to be a fine art and sought to advance it as such. What this meant in practice changed rapidly, moving quickly toward images that were as much in sync with the 20th century as art photography in the 19th century was with academic style and ...

Photography is still less than 200 years old. Painting and sculpture, dance and storytelling have been around forever, but this particular medium — the first to combine artistic vision and modern technology — has existed for just the blink of an eye, historically speaking. All other g...

Right about now, our organizations are working…in all the wrong ways. They’re solving yesterday’s problems, mostly, still. But those problems have already been solved. Yet today’s and tomorrow’s haven’t. They’re just getting bigger, spinning out of con...

No, your eyes aren’t lying to you. That’s The Bee Gees…advertising…tape cassettes. That was then. Think about now with me. If I say brand…today…can you even define it anymore? In a way that makes sense, for this age, this century, right now? Try. I bet you&rsq...

It’s amazing, in its own dire way. Open a newspaper, Twitter, check your Facebook, and so forth. What do you see? Dystopia — a tidal wave of it. A few years ago, you might have thought: this is just a phase. It’ll pass. But it’s not. If anything, it’s getting worse, and...

It’s sometimes said that people like you and me have a “liberal bias.” As the wicked response goes, “so does reality.” It’s not that I have a problem with conservatism — it’s that what conservatism’s become has a problem with people like me. And ...

My dad is 103 years old; my grandson is three. Exactly a hundred years separate my father from his great-grandson. You would wonder what kind of advice my Dad could give his great-grandson to guide his life. So many events pass through an hourglass that large, that finding a pattern in the grains...

Li Keran (March 26, 1907 — December 5, 1989), formerly known as Li Yongshun, was a native of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was an outstanding painter and poet in modern China and a disciple of the painter Qi Baishi. Li Keran loved painting since he was a child and learned to paint landsc...

The content of this piece is a voice-dictated script originally intended a video. But as I did not take sufficient photographs and videos this leaves a blog as the best option for documentary. If you are interested in my other videos, check out the interrail playlist on my YouTube channel. Wi...

There are two dictionary definitions of a town house. Per the Collins Dictionary: A town house is a tall narrow house in a town or city, usually in a row of similar houses, which are connected together. The town house of a wealthy per...

There has been an incredibly contentious election in the news cycle, one of the most divisive and shocking in New Zealand’s short history. It involved underhand tactics from foreign actors to influence the outcome and cause a historic upset in our beloved, arguably most discussed, election. Of...

The age of consent debate comes into picture with a unique event of defiance when an 1884 suit was filed in the Bombay high court against a child-bride by her husband who refused to be obligated to an un consented marriage, formalised when she was 11 years old. Rukhmabai was thus thrown in...

Not long ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held the belief that centuries of enslavement of Black Americans followed by decades of Jim Crow laws were fundamental wrongs in need of remedies. Regardless of political persuasion, the Court’s justices held the opinion that segregated lunch counters and &...

Ican’t imagine a world without printed books. I still write notes in a diary with a pen. Paper was inseparable from reading and writing when I grew up. Maybe most of you can relate to this. Though I’ve embraced technology, paper remains a vital part of my life. Books transformed the w...

The dividing by centuries is somewhat arbitrary and satellite interferometry has been in use since the late 1980s, but high-quality data only became widely available in the 2000s. Three-dimensional models are also not a novelty, and they have been created for a very long time — after all, the ...

Cannabis, both medicinal and recreational, is becoming increasingly accepted in modern society. In response to popular demand, a growing number of States are legalizing the drug. As of January 2024, medical marijuana is legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.), and recreational ma...

The moon landing — In 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission successfully landed astronauts on the moon, a feat that had been deemed impossible just a few decades earlier. This achievement marked a major milestone in the history of space exploration and has had a significant impact on our unders...

Blatantly hateful and dehumanizing words should shock and appall us. We should question the integrity and intentions of anyone who voices such words. And yet, as the rhetoric of the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee do not flinch — indeed they respo...

Me, I see no problem. I am a huge fan of this much-maligned punctuation mark, so much so that I wrote a follow-up essay arguing the manifold merits of the m-dash. (tl;dr: It’s anarchic, digressive, a connector, and graphically pretty. But go read the whole essay!) So basically I a...