Go Web 0.5 With The Wayback Machine
August 25, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Software & Online Apps, Weirdness
Here’s a little news flash for everyone. Just about everything that was ever on the web could potentially still be found on the Internet. I don’t think many people realize that as they do what they do on their favorite websites.
The Wayback Machine is proof of just how far back you can go to find something you’d thought was hidden from everyone from now on. That’s not the case. As with the example shown in the screenshot above, each of those links are a snapshot of my personal website going back as far as 1998. A snapshot was taken …read more
Lost America – Night Photography
June 11, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Images & Photos
My boss uncovered this site to me the other day.
Lost America is devoted to those areas in our country we see and forget or for many of us have never seen. The difference is that the creator uses night photography and processing to really make these “dead” places come alive to the site visitor.
In the late 80’s, he sat in on a few night photography classes and when the subject of light-painting came up briefly, he had a revelation. Here were techniques that were perfect to capture the atmosphere and mystery of these modern ghost towns. The time-exposures allow …read more






