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Traditional Visual Still Artists The artist who draws or paints on canvas or paper, can take very high resolution photos, and sell prints for some amount of money. That same artist may decide to sell the original painting for a fairly decent sum of money. Every artist is different, and some are lucky enough to never NEED to sell those originals. Similarly, a film photographer can sell a first process photo along with the negative, after making sufficiently high resolution copies....

Yesterday, Jen and I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Killer Heels exhibition.  But also to see some of the rest of the Museum. Source: Wikipedia Neither of us had been there before, so had no idea what to expect.  First, I have to say that I was a little confused at first, then impressed.  Walking up to the building, I'm staring at this strange ultra-modern entrance where in any other museum, I'd expect to see a grand stairway....

Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....

I've been working at the office on Times Square (xSq) for a little less than 2 months now. Times Square is one of the street level places that is recognizable as obviously being in New York, and not some other city.  As such, people who come to visit New York, at least for the first few times, feel that they must visit this space. To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....