memories

By J.D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times Company Photography began to go digital about 30 years ago, so if you are older than that your relatives probably documented a portion of your childhood on film-based formats, like slides or prints made from negatives. Or maybe you have stacks of your old slides and negatives from long-lost pictures boxed up in the attic or garage. While not quite as simple as scanning old photo prints, digitizing that film rescues family history from outdated media and makes it easy to share the…

Home to around 25 million, some residents of the Chinese city are minting their lockdown-related visuals as non-fungible tokens (or NFTs) or buying and selling content through cryptocurrencies that cannot be erased. POPaganda, a non-fungible token collection created by Malaysian artist Simon Fong depicting life…