The always mesmerizing Lady Gaga, in Boston for a couple of concerts on her “Monster Ball” tour, stopped by the M.I.T. Museum on Wednesday, June 30 to visit the Polaroid camera archive the museum recently received. In January, Lady Gaga became the re-made company’s Creative Director. At Wednesday’s event, Polaroid’s President, Scott Hardy, said “The products [...]
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Lady Gaga at the M.I.T. Museum: Icon meets Icon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged high tech, Lady Gaga, M.I.T., Photography, Polaroid on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Firsthand Perspectives from a Vanishing Age
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computer history, Thomas Edison, Philo Farnsworth, ENIAC on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most important gifts one generation can leave to another is its history. The firsthand recollections of those who have lived full and productive lives have much to teach those who follow them, and in Stuart Lutz’ The Last Leaf: Voices of History’s Last-Known Survivors, there is a wealth of such recollections. Lutz, [...]
