Nostalgic Deep Dives
Experiments by Joey Cato that revisit personal, local, and pop-culture history through maps, video, photography, data, and interactive media.
Paris, Texas — Before the Fire
Century-old Sanborn fire-insurance maps stitched together and georeferenced to reveal Paris, Texas, shortly before the devastating fire of 1916.
Deep Nostalgia with Movie Posters
Classic eighties and nineties movie posters animated with deep-learning tools, then composited back into their original frames with Photoshop.
Rediscovering History with Photoshop
Panoramic views of downtown Paris reconstructed from panning shots in historic films recorded in 1927 and 1964.
Circle of Life
A circular timeline comparing the ages and lifespans of past Academy Award winners using Wikidata, SPARQL, D3, and HTML canvas.
Bandersnatch Demo
A playable HTML5 Canvas recreation of the fictional early-eighties computer game at the center of Netflix’s Bandersnatch.
Road Trips Reenacted
Camcorder journeys through Paris, Texas, from 2003 recreated fifteen years later and synchronized into a split-screen comparison with FFmpeg.
Paris in 1981
A digitized Paris, Texas, telephone directory transformed into an interactive snapshot of local people, businesses, and places in 1981.