Digitize Physical Prints With Google’s New PhotoScan App

With Google’s new PhotoScan app, one can digitize their physical photos at home using only the standard smartphone camera. It’s not quite up to par with a scanner, but it’s a substantial improvement upon snapping a photo of a photo and cropping. Using four points on the hard image, the app initiates a more accurate, thorough capture. Additionally, the Google Photos app also received an …

Scribner’s Catskill Lodge

Upstate New York's cozy mountain escape reopens after extensive upgrades

Forever on a quest to discover escapes within arm’s reach of New York City, we found ourselves at the recently reopened Scribner’s Catskill Lodge in Hunter, New York. The hotel itself isn’t new (its bones were constructed back in 1966) and during its decades of operation, the facility accrued a storied history all while falling into disrepair. That is, until it was purchased by first-time …

Origins of Safety Pin Solidarity

While it may appear to be taken out of the pages of the Hunger Games (though less inspired than a shiny bird) and there are already reports that it’s been co-opted by white supremacists, many have taken to donning a safety pin as a silent show of solidarity with anyone feeling threatened by rhetoric and violence surrounding the recent election. It all began with an …