Ethan Gates @The_BFOOL@digipres.club
Moving image archivist/technician. Soviet Cinema enthusiast. Passionate about film, TV, audiovisual cables. He/him.
Happy Friday, time for another Patch Bay info dump
This time, breaking down basics of working with Windows for those left out of the fun in Mac/Linux-based digipres tutorials (including ones I've made/led!)
https://patchbay.tech/2018/06/22/doing-digipres-with-windows/
I'm pleased to announce the international headquarters for my new disruptive startup LOBSTaH
I know unemployment is going to catch up with me financially in a bit but damn even having a week just to work on blogging/writing/research has felt phenomenal
Stepping back into the analog world for a bit for adventures in the fourth dimension: the difference between time base, timecode and sync always threw me for loops as a student (and still does sometimes when I try to explain it out loud) so I made a blog post to just link people to instead
libraries are such an important space
not only for free information, but especially for at risk populations and homeless populations
they offer free or very cheap internet access (which allows for finding resoucres, job applications, etc), free access to information, bathrooms, often places have refreshments for relatively cheap as well, etc. etc.
wanting to make public libraries obsolete is classist and just an incorrect viewpoint tbh
New public library has a "writer's corner" session every Saturday where you can just be around other people being productive and I'm so excited
Thinking of the TBM Symposium today (and the, cough, discussion of high cost of access to knowledge/education in this field) inspired finally finishing the guide to understanding/selecting/installing legacy Mac emulators that I've been working on...
More for personal/small collection use than institutional strategy, but I hope it helps some people understand the pieces/process better.
https://patchbay.tech/2018/03/15/a-guide-to-legacy-mac-emulators/
Does anyone have experience working with 8" floppies and/or data on cassette?
Received word that this gallery InterAccess in Toronto is planning an archiving event and a lot of their artists work in these formats and they could use some help/advice putting it together:
http://interaccess.org/
here it is! the ivy plus libraries global webcomics web archive: https://archive-it.org/collections/10181 (ps, you can nominate your favorite webcomic for inclusion here: https://goo.gl/forms/35juQtDB3gufwDzk1) #webcomics
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recommended livestream today: "Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives" at Yale Center for British Art: https://britishart.yale.edu/multimedia-video/26/7206
has anyone made use of GitHub Page's new default HTTPS for custom domains?
trying to switch my site to that from the redirect-through-Cloudflare solution and hitting configuration issues - and I can't tell if that's me being impatient with the DNS propagation or if I'm actually doing something wrong
completed the personal update to Ubuntu 18.04 (trying out Xubuntu, cuz I dig how I can easily use Xfce to fuse together the aspects of Mac and Windows desktops that I like)
and honestly the part that takes longest is picking a new desktop background image
Hi everyone, I’ve just joined digipres.club and wanted to let you all know, the third No Time To Wait Conference on Open Source / Open formats for a/v digital preservation will be hosted at the BFI in London in late Oct or early Nov. Dates being finalised today, announcement soon...
Some days the pile of broken stuff you're supposed to fix by the end of the day just turns into a bigger pile 👍
at last I feel seen
Today in "projects I'm desperately wrapping up before I lose easy access to a shit-ton of equipment":
vrecord-gui, a quick AppleScript applet to launch vrecord in GUI mode from the Dock/Launchpad. I love the command line but I also love how accessible vrecord (and therefore FFV1/Matroska) is getting for those who don't!
When you don't have any test tapes to check your theoretical DAT workflow but you do have blank DAT tapes so...you make a new one!
Social observations: lots of people have had no idea what to do in conversation with the thought that I might take even a month off to work on personal projects and get the lay of the land in Hartford before diving headlong back into the job hunt.
(I know that I am incredibly privileged and lucky to be in a place I can consider such a route and that wouldn't be an option for most. Those aren't the people I'm talking to/about)
Is this a NYC thing? A GLAM thing? Both?