1.18.2005

New Holocaust Photos of Ghetto Life

The worlds largest collection of holocaust photos from a single photographer... Henryk Ross, the official photographer of the German supervised Jewish Council, captured images of the day to day suffering of ghetto life as well as photos of the ghetto "elite" that project an image of a happy content life in the ghettos. These photos are totally saccrine to the background of what we now know about the holocaust. It's really disturbing. The images are on display in New York at the National Portrait Gallery.



Check out the NY Times article here:
www.nytimes.com

1.05.2005

2005 - The Year Audio Tape Died...

No more reel to reel. I remember the days of my electronic music courses in college where we had the fun.. um, I mean art... of splicing loops from reel to reel tape. Those days will be no more. It's a shame really, one of those things that you take for granted until its gone forever. So goes progress...

NPR : Last American Audio Tape Maker Closes

Employees of the audiotape manufacturer Quantegy in Opelika, Ala.,
started the new year looking for work. The company shut down without
notice, surprising everyone in town. The company's closing could signal
the end of the audiotape industry. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.