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Lisa Dickey

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first: 2017-07-10
most recent: 2017-07-10
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“This thing called email. People didn't write. There's this really funny moment that happened where I was interviewing this woman in Nova Sibirsk. And she, like everybody else, would say, we'd say, well, we're American journalists. And they would say, well, who are you writing for? And we would say, well, there's this thing called the internet. And we would explain that you'd like plug your computer into a phone line. And people just thought we were making stuff up. So this woman, I said, you know, do you mind if I use your last name? Because the Russians are such trusting people. I said, do you mind if I use your last name and what I'm writing? And she said, well, tell me again where it's being published. And I said, well, there's this thing called the internet. And I explained it to her. And she said, okay, stop, stop, stop. She said, Russians will never figure that out. You go ahead and write what you want. She was like, we will fast forward to today. They had figured it out. Yeah, that's right. So you did this across.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, this Gary, because Gary was a guy who always wanted to push the boundaries and push the limits of what you could do with photography. And somebody he knew at Kodak said, oh, we are developing this new thing and it's really cool. And he said, ooh, like you could then just put stuff up on the web. And his big thing that he was really excited about was, oh, we can have people emailing us and being in contact with us along the way. And so like two or three weeks into this three-month trip, we got an email from a guy in Canada saying, hey, I actually left Russia like two years ago to try to make a living here in Canada. My wife and my kids are still in Irkutsk. Can you stop by and say hi to them and put pictures of them up? Oh, wow. And so we did. And it was like this incredible, like Gary and I just couldn't believe it. It just totally blew our minds that, oh yeah, so we go and knock on the door of this house and the woman's like, oh, hello. And we said, well, we've been getting this thing called email from your husband. And he's like, said to swing by and took. And that was a time where you said.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He didn't actually even see our own website until we were done until you were done and you would upload text going. Yeah, so I would send the stories. Gary would upload the photos and then we would have a little thing saying this photo is this person, it goes with this paragraph, and then the guys would just put it up on the screen. Would assemble it. Yeah. And I didn't even see it until the end.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we did this, and then we had these two guys in San Francisco who were our partners for this nonprofit, and they put the actual site up because it was all we could do. Like he would take these photos, Gary would take these photos, shrink the pictures down to 25 kilobytes each, and it would take us like eight hours to upload six photos of 25 kilobytes each. So we would send them to these guys and then they would put them up on the site. And Gary and I actually were doing this in the middle of Siberia with this dial-up. And we would.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, so I just thought he was insane, and I thought, oh, this is great. I'm about to go across Russia for three months with this crazy man who I've only just met. But then he pulled this giant camera out and he showed me he took a picture of me and then he popped this little discad into this other little thing, adapter thing, and then he put it into his laptop. And my face came up on the screen. And I had no idea this technology wasn't even film. It was just unbelievable to me.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a Kodak DCS 420, and it was the size of a house. And I actually didn't even know that this technology existed when he showed it to me. First he told me, he said, oh, we're going to do, I'm going to take pictures and we're going to do a world wide web travelog. And I thought that was nuts. Like this was 1995. And 1995, I think about 15% of American households were even online. Even in the States, we didn't really, people weren't online.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“17,000 three decades Well, it's actually, I guess technically it would be over. So the first trip was in 1995. I went with this photographer, Gary Matoso, who had this radical idea that he just wanted to go across Russia and take pictures of ordinary people and then upload them to the internet, which most of the Russians we talked to had no idea what that was. They thought we were just making stuff up. But so this was his big idea. He had this prototype digital camera and we were going to go across Russia.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No problem having me. We have so much to talk about. So let's just dive in. Why don't you explain for the people what bears in the streets is? Because I think you've done something unusual. You went to Russia over, what, 17,000 years? 17,000 years. Three decades. So three decades of trips to Russia.”
2017-07-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT