This is neat. I randomly discovered Jigidi.com, a site with a jigsaw-puzzle generating application that turns any image into a puzzle. This is something I attempted to do years ago but came up short for lack of Flash skills. Jigidi is yet another outlet for my digital hoard of countless found photos and slides I purchased over the years, not to mention scans of cover images and artwork from “The Etude” music magazine.
As often happens inside my overanalytical mind I sometimes find myself questioning the morals of “found photos” and sharing memories of strangers as if I have a right to capitalize on them in any way. I’ve mucked around with these slides enough that in some cases I find that the family memories entombed within them become my memories, and the experiences recorded there assimilated into my life.
The above image is from a glass-mounted Kodachrome slide, probably from the 1930s. Originally I believed it to be from earlier — the 1920s, I thought. It may actually be that old but a current look into the history of Kodachrome seems to suggest Kodak did not introduce glass mounted slides until the 1930s.
