23 Jun 2010

A visual contrast in old and new

The image below provides quite a stark contrast between old and new. This is a featured "editors' choice" image in the Reuters gallery app for the iPad today. This is an incredible app. Visual literacy meets current events, all at the flick of your finger. It's a weird feeling looking at all the images of terrible flooding in southern China today. I feel simultaneously connected and impotent. Can I even conceive of a world before "current events" and instantaneous communication?

Here is the app link:
http://www.reuters.com/tools/mobile/ipad

Learn more about Pudu Prison in Malaysia from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudu_Prison

Photo

Sent from my iPad