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Visualizations
Let's play a little game. Think about the First World War for a minute. Good. Now think about the Renaissance. Okay: Which one did you think of in black and white? Did I just BLOW YOUR MIND? Anyway, yes, the reasons are obvious, but it's still kind a neat trick. I got it from here.
Team TLS! (The LRB is the Walter Scott of the literary reviews.)
I think of the apocalypse in 3D.
This new technology is changing the way we think!
Black and white as in the causes and effects of the war? It's a very nuanced subject.
I have a tough time thinking about a future without Walter Pidgeon.
That is so NEAT.
Now close your eyes and think about the paleolithic period while I lift your wallet.
I imagine the early Middle Ages happened as tapestry, the late Middle Ages was a big woodcut, but the future, when we conqure space, is vector graphics.
The Civil War looks like a bunch of sad letters.
@deepomega and slow zooms on still photographs, lots of slow zooms.
Some of us have come to see the First World War in a Downton Abbey palette. Can we still learn something, reading that link?
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Blackadder is my benchmark for both, whatever that implies (it implies color in both cases).