Washington High School Male Students make Documentary about Booker T. Washington

by Ameer | Feb 1, 2016 | Art, Atlanta connections

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the male students of the African American Male Initiative (AAMI) met a difficult deadline and presented a 20+ minute documentary to fellow students of Booker T. Washington high school in Atlanta, Georgia. The students were led by Tene...

After Malcolm Project to Exhibit at National Civil and Human Rights Museum

by editors | Jan 19, 2016 | Atlanta connections, digital humanities, Homepage, News, SIF Projects

Figures like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X are central to the history of the Black Freedom Struggle; however the larger story of African American Islam before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement remains to be told. The religious tradition of Islam has been drawn...

Getting UP To Every Last Detail

by Saif Ali | Dec 7, 2015 | 3D modeling, Atlanta connections

The 1928 Atlanta project has one essential question that we are trying to answer: How has the city changed since 1928? WHAT has changed since 1928? Well, it seems like almost everything has. The exceptions might be the few select buildings that still stand today from...

Historical Photos: Why It’s Nice We Can’t Always Geotag Them

by Andrew Berens | Dec 7, 2015 | Atlanta connections, mapping

Recently I met with two of the heads of the SIF program, Joe Hurley and Brennan Collins, concerning the photo geotagging project. The photo geotagging project involves determining the location where various photos from the GSU Digital Collections were taken from. The...

Building the Foundation of an Intermediary Between the Research and Modeling Sides of 3D Atlanta

by Krisna Patel | Nov 30, 2015 | 3D modeling, Atlanta connections, digital humanities, mapping, SIF Projects

Continuing to work on 3D Atlanta, I have been continuing to organize all of our research about Atlanta for the convenience of both the research and the modeling side. We decided that we needed to create an intermediary between the two groups so the modeling side can...

Great Flying Corn-Cobs, Batman!

by Ness Creighton | Nov 2, 2015 | Atlanta connections, digital humanities

So, the topic of this month’s post comes to be because of half joking comment I made in passing to a friend a few weeks ago. We had been discussing regional pronunciation, and I pointed out the best way to start a fight between an Atlantan, a New Yorker, and a...