'Restoring' Old Photos With AI Is a Fundamentally Broken Concept

When I was in college, I had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Florence, Italy to study. There, I took a "Chemistry of Art" class that

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A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift

We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a project, so we pass it by. Not [Ken] from [Ken’…

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AMBER ISLE + MSLA SPRING SERIES WK 5 - This week for the Party Hour, we are returning to the Isle of Cute Prehistorics as we continue to revive Amber Isle!

Once the hour is done, we will do some Royals leading up to the Week 5 of the MSLA Spring CC Series. During this week, we will be doing Laps Racing at The Paperclip, Bear Ridge, The Delta and the Bracket- as we run with Medium Burn Pitstops.

Will also be streaming Marble Manager for thoes who wants to drop marbs in.

#Twitch #StreamingNow #PartyHour #AmberIsle #Shopkeeping #Exploration #Capitalism #Restoration #IslandResort #Dinosaurs #MarblesonStream #Marbles #Racing #Simulation #LapsRacing #PitRacing #MSLASpring

https://www.twitch.tv/Kenku

Covered in dust.

During a walk, we passed an old store where two men were restoring what time had slowly taken apart—cleaning, repairing plaster, bringing fragments back to life. In a corner sat a bale of hay. And behind it, something hidden.

A motorcycle.

Curiosity pulled us closer. The owner noticed, came outside, and struck up a conversation. I asked if I could take a photo. The bike itself couldn’t be moved—but the hay bale could. With a bit of effort, it revealed a vintage Hungarian Danuvia 125, dating back to the early 1960s. Dark red, covered in dust, draped in spiderwebs. Forgotten, but not gone.

Captured with a Canon 5DSR and Sigma 24–70mm Art, I chose a natural perspective—wide enough to include context, close enough to hold detail. Dust particles, worn paint, the quiet texture of time itself.

Machines like this tell a different kind of story. Built in an era where simplicity and function defined design, the Danuvia 125 was a lightweight, practical motorcycle—engineered for everyday use, not display. And yet here it was, decades later, preserved unintentionally.

I didn’t want to take too much of the man’s time. I thanked him for his openness and hospitality, and we moved on.

But for a moment, time stood still in that corner.

#Danuvia125 #VintageMotorcycle #ClassicBike #HungarianMotorcycle #MotorcyclePhotography #AbandonedBeauty #DustAndTime #Canon5DSR #Sigma2470Art #VintageMachines #OldTimer #HiddenStories #Patina #RusticCharm #MechanicalHistory #Restoration #InTheField #OutdoorPhotography #StorytellingPhotography #ForgottenPlaces #VisualNarrative #TimeCapsule #OldWorkshop #BehindTheScenes #TravelMoments #ThroughTheLens #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography #WonderingLens
"The window depicts “angeli ministrantes” and “angeli laudantes” – ministering and praising angels. Burne-Jones designed the angels, Morris the decorative leaf design." #architecture #restoration #church #cathedral www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
We needed some parts for our #movieprojector #restoration, and San Rafael still has an actual electronics parts store.
This is a power supply for a 16mm projector (ours use arc lights and that takes a lot of juice). This one failed during a show a week ago (thanks to a spare, and a quick-thinking volunteer, we got things up and running again in only a few minutes).
I had a scheduled visit with my "projector sensei" in San Rafael today, and I really prefer to get there by train+bike+ferry. This thing's heavy but in a backpack it's ok. I'm not going to try carrying a projector on my back though!
Anyway, the issue was a burnt out bridge rectified, and I'm happy to say this it's fixed and on it's way home.
If you want to read up on what this part does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_bridge
#movieprojector #restoration #silentfilm

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Title: View of Ornans
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date: probably mid-1850s
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436025

#digitalart #restoration #publicdomain