One of the great things about the LIFE photo archive on Google is that it's now possible to pair-up old TIME Magazine articles with their long-lost photos. It takes a bit of detective work, but you can dig up a lot of images that illuminate the plain text... ...full story at Opposite End of China
from Opposite End of China on Wed, Dec 03 2008
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| 18 Aug 08 |
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Michael Phelps - "Time of My Life" »
YouTube video Scenes from Michael's performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing set to David Cook's "Time of My Life". What an amazing athlete! We enjoyed cheering him on. I hope you enjoy the video. I do not own photos/music. |
| 20 Nov 08 |
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Just Amazing: China images from the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google » Shanghaiist Photo by Jack Birns, date unknown Via Andrew Sullivan we learn of this extraordinary project: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first... |
| 23 Nov 08 |
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China In Pictures. MUST SEE. » China Law Blog Google just came out with millions of photographs from the archives of Life Magazine and, as anyone who has seen Life Magazine would know, they are riveting (h/t Shanghaiist), I have been checking out photos of old Shanghai and Beijing (a/k/a Peking). I... |
| 21 Nov 08 |
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LIFE in Xinjiang » Opposite End of China Like many of you, I've been spending endless hours browsing through Google's newly debuted LIFE photo archive. There are some real Xinjiang gems in there, which I hope to feature here from time to time. Click on the image above for the complete photo.... |
| 29 Jan 07 |
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Flickr, YouTube, and Google Video Problems in China » Sinosplice For the past two days or so, none of the little button images on any Flickr pages will load. This is what I see above each image on the individual photo page: The actual photos load fine. Fortunately most of the site navigation is text, but the little... |
| 15 Jan 09 |
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Video: Manchukuo (Manchuria) in 1938 » Shanghaiist The Travel Film Archive takes us on another journey back in time with this look at how life was like in 1938 in the then province of Manchuria (Manchukuo) under the Japanese. Previously on Shanghaiist Ghosts of Empire: Peking Video: Great footage of 1947... |
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