Red Rover, Red Rover…
From the death of Muhammad Ali, to Hillary “clinching” the Democratic presidential nomination, to the shooting at the UCLA campus, this past week has...
The Feds vs. A Fruit
I want to share my (fairly unoriginal) thoughts regarding the Apple/FBI issue that has been in the news for the past month or so....
Little Boy | Daniel Wechsler
As images and video footage of war and terror are inescapable in the Digital Age, we grow paradoxically overwhelmed and numb at the sacrifice...
#Blackout2015: A Tale of Bad Public Relations, An Unexpected Firing, and a Power Move by Reddit Moderators
I went on a little road trip to Vermont this past week with my girlfriend, spending some time in the mountains and enjoying the...
Wazed and Confused
A few weeks ago, I decided to download a Google-owned navigation app called Waze. I’d heard a lot about it from friends, and I...
Hide and Seek
Last Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron sat with President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of topics, including the recent...
Every Breath You Take
In the wake of the Ferguson debacle, there has been an outpouring of support in favor of on-duty officers wearing body cameras. It makes...
An Ode to the Tangible
Despite my status as a “postgraduate researcher,” I had never experienced microfilm until this afternoon. For those who don’t know, microfilm is a form...
Overhyped and Underwhelming
Do me a favor and think back to the year 2001. The Time Magazine “Person of the Year” was Rudy Giuliani. Lifehouse, Train, Matchbox...
Ctrl+Alt+Del
In 2003, the California Coastal Records Project was hard at work on an ambitious quest to develop a photographic archive of the entire California...