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Scans from National Graphic Society Life in Rural America, 1974.
This set at hi-res on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/weetstraw/sets/72157623180593501/
Life in Rural America
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Daily Archives: April 19, 2010
Sun’s path June to December
“Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left.
This afternoon I fetched the cannister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some image software made the image negative.
The result is the picture above.
The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months.
I believe you can see we didn’t have a great summer by the broken lines at the top.”
Solar Path Experiment:
http://www.pinholephotography.org/Solargraph%20instructions.htm
hat tip http://kottke.org
How to Draw Time – Paper Cuts Blog
Emma Willard’s “Temple of Time” (1846).
“Cartographies of Time,” published recently by Princeton Architectural Press, is an eye-popping record of the ways that mapmakers, chronologists, artists and other infographics geeks have tried to convey the passage of time visually. “What does history look like?” the coauthors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton write in their introduction. “How do you draw time?”
Jennifer Schuessler | NYT
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