You Will (Eventually)

Getting away from the war for just a bit, there’s a very cool interactive graphic in the NY Times today. It has images of Edward Hopper’s paintings of Cape Cod, along with photographs of the subjects now. There are audio statements from people who are related somehow to the subjects. It’s a very nifty little doohickey, and if you like the art of Edward Hopper, it’s well worth five or ten minutes to check it out. It’s impressive how little the area has changed since the first half of the 20th Century when Hopper was painting.

This is the kind of stuff I’m glad to see coming out finally. It’s interesting to look at the past’s view of the future, seeing what happened, what didn’t and why (touch screens are inconvenient, but drive-through toll booths are here to stay). It’s taken a while for major news organizations to utilize the internet in more interesting ways, beyond simply putting out their old content, but they are finally wrapping their heads around it.