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Around The Horn
5 May 2023
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Corky Lee, a collaborative photo project, HDD failure rate and Diane Keaton.
- "In honor of U.S. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, today's Doodle celebrates the life and work of Corky Lee, Chinese American photographer, journalist and activist whose photos recorded the diversity and nuances of the Asian Pacific American community often overlooked by mainstream media," Google notes. Lee, who died in 2021 after documenting Asian-American lives for 45 years, called himself the "undisputed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate."
- Grace Ebert explores A Collaborative Photo Project that imagines a world where street artists have free rein. "Collaborating with eight artists including Peeta, Levalet and Victoria Villasana, [Joseph] Ford reimagines the possibilities of public spaces that are otherwise inaccessible due to scale, safety issues or restrictions," she writes.
- Scharon Harding reports HDDs Typically Failed in Under 3 Years in a Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives that confirms an earlier but smaller study by Secure Data Recovery that found the lasted 2 years 10 months on average. Our backup laptop's drive has been running 13 years, eight of them on our primary machine.
- In Catherine Shoard's interview with Diane Keaton the actress reveals her interest in photographing doors and old stores in Los Angeles. "God, life is so strange," she says. "And that's why I really am fascinated by these places, because they're abandoned, but they were something very important."
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