A winning design has been chosen in Canada’s quest to create an official national LGBTQ2+ monument in Ottawa. Winnipeg-based Team Wreford won for its entry titled “Thunderhead,” a sculptural pavilion in the form of a thunderhead cloud mounted upon a stage that allows space for activities.
The LGBT Purge Fund has unveiled “Thunderhead” as the winning proposal for the LGBTQ2+ National Monument. The concept is conceived by a Winnipeg-based team led by Liz Wreford, Peter Sampson and Taylor LaRocque of Public City, with artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, and Albert McLeod, Indigenous and Two-Spirited People subject-matter expert and advisor.The design […]
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A story of trains, computers, and two images.
This is at the same time a continuation to what may become a loose series, namely, “Things on the Web that aren’t what they seem to be”, and the beginning of an entirely new one. Anyway, this is the story of two photos that are rather well known in the context of computer history. You may even have seen one or the other popping up on a website.
Since you are reading this blog, you may be even familiar with the broader context.
Context
In 1961, the MIT recieved a DEC
PDP-1 computer from Digital Equipment Corporation as a donation. It was one of the very first production models and DEC’s motivation was a multiple one: First, the PDP-1 was somewhat of a commercial version of MIT’s experimental TX-0 computer