August 24, 2015 at 10:15 am
How Old School 80s Graphics Worked
The limitations of color and memory these designers faced with will give you a newfound appreciation for the artwork they were able to create.
The limitations of color and memory these designers faced with will give you a newfound appreciation for the artwork they were able to create.
The Q’eswachaka bridge in Peru is rebuilt every year using traditional Inca engineering techniques by the local communities on either side of the canyon.
This film was shot on April 14, 1906, just four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed over 80% of the city.
Vox’s Phil Edwards talks with Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University, to learn why.
On 1 July 2016, Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106. He is credited with saving the lives of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII.
Captain Jack Tueller recounts the time he played a famous German love song for a lone sniper still at large, two weeks after D-Day. You can read more about Captain Tueller’s incredible story at this CNN article from 2009.
Watch these 1930s daredevils show off their parkour skills in this vintage clip!
The video quality is astonishing. Fascinating HD color video shows the situation of the city in summer 1945, just after the Second World War and the capitulation of Germany. Daily life after years of war. Pictures from the destroyed city, the Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor, Adlon, Führerbunker, Unter den Linden, rubble women working in the…
For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just “a thing that computers do”. But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here’s a quick summary by Tom Scott. If you enjoyed the video above,…
Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during…
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