Nostalgiqa blog

An iPhone/iPod app that is all about those meaningful and nostalgic moments in your life you simply don't want to forget. Ever! website: www.nostalgiqa.com

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Paris • 1967

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Moscow • 1959

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San Francico, Places with Memories

If you could travel through time, what period and place would you visit?

Time travel have always fascinated us and we're happy to share with you a wonderful map of San Francisco through different periods.

OldSF placed a collection of black and white photos captured from 1850 to 2000 in an interactive map.

Don't waste more time, it's here to go there !

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HumanSpot featured on a local TV coverage about IPN.

Press play and get a sneak peek at our wonderful workspace! You'll also get to meet a few HumanSpotters and see some of our work including our beloved app Nostalgiqa! ; )

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Oh oh oh! The HumanSpot team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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A series of moving then and now pictures from detroiturbex.com showing Detroit’s Cass Tech High School with students of the time placed inside the then derelict school.

Do you remember then and now portrait photography by Irina Werning?

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December 12, 2012 • 12.12pm

Will you remember today as a special day in the future?

... Every day is a special day!

Live to the fullest. Seize the moment. Share your memories.

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"Perhaps the most iconic and memorable thing about the cassette was the concept of a mixtape. Those who lived through the 80s and 90s can vouch for its value and importance. Unlike in the modern and digital time wherein it’s just a matter of download, drag and drop, then burn, creating mixtapes required a larger amount of effort, from the choosing of songs up to the actual recording."- in lomography.com

Cassette tapes ... Do you remember it ? And those home made compilations you listened to while driving ? In 1991, I had a gray Walkman with black buttons and I do remember a week where I’d listen to the same tape over and over again.

Well, the cassette tape celebrates its 50th anniversary! The Philips Company - headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands - invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962.

Ithaca Audio made a wonderful hommage by performing a 16 track live mashup on a 23 year old Tascam 1” tape machine. Enough words, time to hit the PLAY button!

"The Mixtape" by Ithaca Audio (website, vimeo, twitter)

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Seasons with memories.

Autumn. Trees get red and gold. Leaves fall on the ground. We smell the rain and hear the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot. How many times did I look for a huge pile of leaves to dive into? By the way, that's how I lost my house keys once...

Jamie Scott captured the changing seasons over the course of six months in New York's Central Park. Have a look at his time lapse video. Totally stunning!

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”- Albert Camus

"Fall" by Jamie Scott (website, vimeo)

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Venice • 1961

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Barcelona • 1960s • Through the lens of Narcis Darder

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Tokyo • 1958 • Through the lens of Marc Riboud

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"An old lighthouse" • A memory fragment posted on Nostalgiqa

Almost two weeks ago, I drove to São Pedro de Moel beach. It's really a beautiful place sheltered by cliffs within a pine forest. The great thing is that is only around 30 kms (19 miles) away from my grandparents house in Portugal. What I love the most in there is a centennial lighthouse located at the top of a huge rock called "Penedo da Saudade" - an expression that can be translated to something like "Cliff of Nostalgia". It is named after a legend saying that, in this same place, a young widow mourned everyday the death of her husband after he was executed in 1641. Some also claim that we can still hear her lament when listening to the whispers of the sea...

But continuing about the old lightouse. My mother, aunts, uncles and grandparents talked about it many times because of light they could see, beaming from it, in our village.

Here's one of the stories I've been told. As farmers in the 1960s, my grandparents grew corn. After the harvest, they spread the corn grains on the threshing-floor so it could dry. Every night during the drying stage, my mother - she was around 13 years old -, her three sisters and two brothers used to go to the threshing-floor to "keep the burglars away" by playing outdoor games. They were never alone as long as the beam from the "Cliff of Nostalgia" lighthouse kept on sweeping.

Today, my grandparents are no longer alive but the old lighthouse still stands majestically overlooking the sea at the top of the huge rock. May it will be there for many centuries to come!

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade • New York, 1939 • (Source: Tom Papallardo)

We wish you a joyful Thanksgiving holiday and don’t forget to share all those pumpkin pies, happiness and whatever your favorites are on Nostalgiqa ! : )

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." - William Shakespeare

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164th day without Mad Men. Still looking for a sign...

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Don Draper (Jon Hamm) pitches the Kodak Wheel Carousel • Source: Mad Men (AMC TV Series) - Season 1, Episode 13

1960s. Civil right movements. Women's liberation and feminism. Criticism of the established social order. The Cold War. Space exploration program. The world was shifting and it’s really interesting to attend to all theses changes through a window to the past called Mad Men. AMC’s award-winning drama focuses on the advertising industry in New York in the early 60's. Perhaps Mathew Weiner wants to remind us that despite the passing of time, some things in our daily lives just never change. As written here, modernity is certainly not a cure, and not necessarily a blessing. I have to say, it's a TV Series that truly moved me with every episode I saw. I discovered and rediscovered so many things from the past: cocktails, ads, fashion, songs, rotary dial, typewriters, old toys, vintage cars ... It’s all about old days in color. 

The video above is one of the best scenes of Mad Men. It's a little old and all over the internet but it's really good. And yes, it's about nostalgia. If somewhere in the universe, there is a list with all the hardcore fans, add my name to it please.

"Nostalgia. It's delicate but potent... Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means, 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards. And it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called 'The Wheel.' It's called 'The Carousel.' It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around and back home again. A place where we know we are loved.” - Don Draper in Mad Men

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Storefronts and traffic on Main Street • Los Angeles • 1941