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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — On Wednesday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m., artist Scott Boyd joins Endangered Alphabets Project founder and author Tim Brookes for a free Zoom conversation presented by the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Boyd will speak about “Endangered Alphabets,” a 10-foot-high obelisk he created, on which he inscribed characters, symbols and scripts drawn from the writing systems of endangered languages. The obelisk is on view outside the museum through November. Boyd and Brookes will also discuss the Endangered Alphabets Proje...

What Is “Black Crush” on a Display? Have you heard the term “black crush” while looking at TV or monitor reviews? The problem is getting more attention now that display manufacturers are trying to improve black reproduction, particularly on LED-lit LCD models. So what are “crushed blacks,” and do you need to worry about them? Black Crush Means a Loss of Shadow Detail Black crush refers to the loss of fidelity in especially dark areas of an image. The term might apply in both the photography and video spheres but is most commonly used to describe the loss of shadow detail in moving...

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Photo by Robert Burroughs "I was a Maytag dealer for four years, and it was one of the busiest times of my life. It's not that Maytags break down a lot, it’s just that there are a lot of them out there." There’s a rare affliction called the 38-Year-Old Burned-Out-Carpenter Disease. You wake up one morning and your body is crippled, your wife has left you, you’re broke, and your dog got run over. All I had to show for it was about 700 miles of base. At this point, the carpenter has several options: cocaine (stupid), contractors’ school (did you say school?), change within the trade (po...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — A free, public celebration of spring exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is set for this weekend. Many of the exhibiting artists and curators will be in attendance Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in the museum’s galleries and under a tent on the front lawn of the museum at historic Union Station in downtown Brattleboro, at the intersection of Main Street and routes 119 and 142. Refreshments will be served outdoors, and two new exhibits, “Scott Boyd: Endangered Alphabets” and “Delita Martin: Between ...