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  • Neon arch over Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada.
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  • Illuminated Marlboro Man sign at dusk. Rosamond, Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA.
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  • Works Project Administration (WPA) mural portrays city life. Coit tower, San Francisco, California. USA The murals in Coit Tower were painted under the supervision of Mexican artist Diego Rivera during the 1930's, and carry strong socialist themes. They were very controversial at that time.
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  • Nobska lighthouse on Cape Cod, near Falmouth, Massachusetts.  New England, USA.
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  • Nobska lighthouse on Cape Cod, near Falmouth, Massachusetts. New England, USA.
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  • Fountains at Bellagio Resort Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. USA.
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  • Michelangelo's David, sculpted from 1501 to 1504, in Florence, Italy.
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  • Carving on the temple wall at Halebid, South India. The ancient capital of the Hoysalas, Halebid was then known as Dwarasamudram. The great city of Dwarasamudra flourished as a Capital of the Hoysala Empire during the 12th & 13th centuries.
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  • Woodcarvers, Mysore, South India.
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  • Works Project Administration (WPA) mural portrays California agriculture. Coit tower, San Francisco, California. USA The murals in Coit Tower were painted under the supervision of Mexican artist Diego Rivera during the 1930's, and carry strong socialist themes. They were very controversial at that time.
    USA_MURL_3_xs.jpg
  • Neon Cowgirl sign, Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. USA.
    USA_NV_3_xs.jpg
  • McDonald's icon in Shanghai, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Shrine on a street corner in Laguardia (Alava) Rioja, Spain.
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  • KFC and other fast food chains, both global and Japanese, are a frequent stop for busy Okinawans. Although the island is being studied for clues to Okinawan's great longevity, studies say that the younger population will not live as long because of their diets higher in saturated fats and calories. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Wooden statue of a Christian monk. Carmel Mission, Carmel, California, USA.
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  • Los Angeles, California - Mural in East Los Angeles.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California photographed from Marin Headlands. Dusk.  Art Deco. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise; view from Marin Headlands. San Francisco is in the background on right. San Francisco, California. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View looking south from the top of the north tower.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View looking south from the top of the north tower.  Time exposure of early evening commuter traffic crossing the deck of the bridge.
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  • Small Ave Maria shrine on a back street in Murano, Italy.
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  • The sacred Jain site of Sravanbelgola, 93km north of Mysore, consists of two hills and a large Tank. On one of the hills, Indragiri (also known as Vindhyagiri), stands an extraordinary eighteen meter high monolithic statue of a naked  male figure, Gomateshvara, which is the largest freestanding sculpture in India. The name of the other hill is Chandragiri, marking the arrival of Jainism in southern India.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View south from the top of the north tower. Time exposure of early evening commuterr traffic crossing the deck of the bridge.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View south from the top of the north tower. Time exposure of early evening commuterr traffic crossing the deck of the bridge.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. View of Marin County from the north tower.
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  • North tower of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise; Alcatraz is seen in the background on the left. San Francisco, California. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • André Tchelistcheff (December 7, 1901 - April 5, 1994) was America's most influential post-Prohibition winemaker in the Napa Valley.  Photographed in 1986. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Hans Christian Andersen statue.
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  • Two girls walk past a mural on Hollywood Boulevard. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. Hollywood, California. USA.
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  • Iconic Colonel Sanders statue with signs in front of KFC chicken fast food restaurant in Naha City, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Virtual reality in air traffic control (ATC) systems. Bill Wiseman from the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Seattle, demonstrating how ATC might operate in the future. Optical fiber sensors in his black data glove & the pink-rimmed micro-laser scanner glasses connect the operator with a virtual, computer-generated, 3-D image of the airspace he is controlling. Through raising his gloved hand to touch an icon (projected image) of an approaching jet, he is placed in instant voice communication with the pilot. This photograph was taken with the cooperation of SEA/TAC international airport, Seattle. MODEL RELEASED. (1990)
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  • Virtual reality in air traffic control (ATC) systems. Bill Wiseman from the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Seattle, demonstrating how ATC might operate in the future. Optical fiber sensors in his black data glove & the pink-rimmed micro-laser scanner glasses connect the operator with a virtual, computer-generated, 3-D image of the airspace he is controlling. Through raising his gloved hand to touch an icon (projected image) of an approaching jet, he is placed in instant voice communication with the pilot. This photograph was taken with the cooperation of SEA/TAC international airport, Seattle. MODEL RELEASED. (1990)
    USA_SCI_VR_09_xs.jpg
  • Virtual reality in air traffic control (ATC) systems. Bill Wiseman from the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Seattle, demonstrating how ATC might operate in the future. Optical fiber sensors in his black data glove & the pink-rimmed micro-laser scanner glasses connect the operator with a virtual, computer-generated, 3-D image of the airspace he is controlling. Through raising his gloved hand to touch an icon (projected image) of an approaching jet, he is placed in instant voice communication with the pilot. This photograph was taken with the cooperation of SEA/TAC international airport, Seattle. MODEL RELEASED. (1990)
    USA_SCI_VR_10_xs.jpg
  • Virtual reality in air traffic control (ATC) systems. Bill Wiseman from the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Seattle, demonstrating how ATC might operate in the future. Optical fiber sensors in his black data glove & the pink-rimmed micro-laser scanner glasses connect the operator with a virtual, computer-generated, 3-D image of the airspace he is controlling. Through raising his gloved hand to touch an icon (projected image) of an approaching jet, he is placed in instant voice communication with the pilot. This photograph was taken with the cooperation of SEA/TAC international airport, Seattle. MODEL RELEASED. (1990)
    USA_SCI_VR_12_xs.jpg
  • Liveboard conference. Computer scientists use an interactive liveboard - a wall-sized, touch- sensitive computer screen - during a conference in the "beanbag room" at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. The liveboard is one of the company's most recent innovations. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons..
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  • As remote as the family's home is in the remote village of Cap Hope, Greenland, the Madsen family's refrigerator is covered with stuck-on icons of popular culture. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Mark Weiser (b. 1952), director of research at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons. Mark Weiser worked on ubiquitous computing (?The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.?) After-hours he was the drummer for a rock band called Severe Tire Damage..He died of cancer in (1997)
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  • Roy Want holds his invention - the Xerox parctab. This hand-held, 200-gram prototype allows the user to beam information to a personal computer by writing a series of shorthand-like symbols, each of which represents a letter of the alphabet, on a pressure-sensitive screen. Want is a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre) in California's Silicon Valley. One of the most innovative computer companies in the USA, PARC is the birthplace of the mouse, the computer workstation and the "graphical user interface", the now-universal system of windows and icons that makes it possible for a novice to use a computer. (1995)
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