A Day in New York City: how mobile technology allowed me to narrate (ie, relate the significance beyond the activities) from Michael Gallagher on Vimeo. This post falls a little …
Lower East Side Tenements & Augmented Reality: The Walls have Voices
(look closely enough to see the apparitions from the past, the modern structure inhabited with those before. Aka clumsy photo layering as a proof of concept of what augmented reality …
Timelapse: Cityscapes in motion
Besides being one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen, this short time lapse piece on the changing and entirely fluid nature of cityscapes is revealing. A good …
Al Smith, Prohibition, and the Reassurance of Gravelly Voices
In case you aren’t aware, the Internet Archive is an excellent resource in dire need of an update. As a repository of archaic and archival resources, it is second to …
Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL) and Mapping the African-American past
Yes, this is another post on digital library type resources that I find, for lack of a better term, cool. Further, it is another example of a digital humanities center …
Gallaghers, Ellis Island, immigration, and digital resources
When I was younger especially, I took a great interest in tracking down my family’s history. I was sincerely trying to piece together a narrative, but ultimately failed as very …