New York Times' "A City Uses Murals to Bridge Differences"

In a recent on-line article featuring the use of murals to bridge racial differences in urban Philadelphia, The New York Times utilized another subtle form of multimedia to enhance the readers experience. 

The article, A City Uses Murals to Bridge Differences, focuses on a ten-year community project, in which Philadelphia residents of a racially divided neighborhood, worked together to paint a mural featuring racial unity.

The mural, titled The Peace Wall depicts an image of a dozen ethnically different hands uniting one another in a message of equality and unity.

The program which originally began as a anti-graffiti project back in 1984, has produced more than 2.800 murals throughout the city, a majority of them covering the walls of low-income neighborhoods.

Alongside this on-line article, The New York Times decided to use a silent photo slideshow named The Peace Wall, as their multimedia packet.  Overall, I think that the use of the slideshow is a good example in depicting various different examples of these now famous compilations.  

The photographs themselves are of excellent quality, as they not only depict the actual mural but actually cast them in their urban settings, demonstrating to the reader the effect they have on the community. 

However, along with the slideshow, a collection of audio featuring the residents of the neighborhood, would deliver the emotions these murals have brought about in a more effective manner.  This would deliver the full and complete story.