Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.
In the linked Places article, New Yorker staff writer and Cupertino native Hua Hsu reminisces about the promise of Highway 85 – a South Bay freeway near my childhood home which was completed when I was a kid. But most importantly, among the photos illustrating the article is one of my own! Used with permission, of course, scroll about halfway down to a color-graded image of a Highway 85 onramp to see my contribution. And also read the article, which tackles the placeless experience of growing up in Silicon Valley as the child of an engineer.
In the linked Places article, New Yorker staff writer and Cupertino native Hua Hsu reminisces about the promise of Highway 85 – a South Bay freeway near my childhood home which was completed when I was a kid. But most importantly, among the photos illustrating the article is one of my own! Used with permission, of course, scroll about halfway down to a color-graded image of a Highway 85 onramp to see my contribution. And also read the article, which tackles the placeless experience of growing up in Silicon Valley as the child of an engineer.