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footage.bsky.social
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
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Saturday in San Francisco at The Lab. The Lab present The Other Spectrum, including of a lecture by Rick Prelinger on “useful radio,” and a live transmission art performance by Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar. Tickets: link.dice.fm/f66a90feb387...

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Felt like a 5.5 or 6 in San Francisco's Richmond district. Lateral (north-south) short sharp shock.

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Lights, camera, decentralization! 🎥✨ All of @footage.bsky.social 's 31 feature-length and short films will be preserved on the Filecoin network. Some titles include ↓

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well, according to @technologyreview.com, Prelinger Archives is a source of video for training large image models. Not a surprise!

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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024 has its live YouTube premiere this coming Tuesday! Register for free (or support Prelinger Library with a contribution) and engage in spirited real-time repartee with other viewers. Hope to see you online! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-lands...

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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024 has its live YouTube premiere this coming Tuesday! Register for free (or support Prelinger Library with a contribution) and engage in spirited real-time repartee with other viewers. Hope to see you online! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-lands...

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Fantastic profile of The Prelinger Archive. Love attending their holiday event every year. @footage.bsky.social @meganw6xav.bsky.social Never-before-seen footage of San Francisco is unearthed every day in a former furniture warehouse www.sfgate.com/local/articl... via @sfgatedotcom.bsky.social

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Want a preview of next week's Lost Landscapes shows? Read this piece from Rick Prelinger on how the films help with "combatting historical amnesia" and creating a "collective, dialogical experience"

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Join us next week at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco for the 19th edition of @footage.bsky.social's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. Lost Landscapes explores everyday life in the Bay Area through archival footage. Get tickets for the 12/9/24 and 12/10/24 screenings: longnow.org/ideas/lost-l...

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I wrote a piece about my recent Lost Landscapes event in San Francisco's Duboce Park. Thanks to my wonderful editor Claudia La Rocco. www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...

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💥New #CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on <AI & Archives> in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from CambridgeUP, guest eds. Katie MacKinnon, Louis Ravn, Eun Seo Jo, Caroline Bassett and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social ! ℹ️ shorturl.at/hAI1l

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Ok, back here where the good folx are. Will take some time to learn the ropes and the network...

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I'm doing a screening at the Savoy Tivoli in North Beach on Wed 7/19 -- an archival film tribute to North Beach, its people, history, culture and cityscape. Please join me! Free. thoseguyssf.com

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i wrote about how brecht learned marx with his friends! http://hypocritereader.com/101/commodity-theater?from=cp

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There's a petition to protect the integrity of the Mutter Museum, which is facing problems from the people who are apparently embarrassed to be responsible for it...

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Someone wrote about The Melville Log -- one of the most important (and dialectical) attempts at writing a non-coercive biography I've ever seen. Biographers take notice! https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=8244#:~:text=In%20two%20volumes%20of%20nearly,form%20remarkably%20resistant%20to%20experimentation.

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Awful decision today on fair use, but Kagan's dissent is a great read. Starts around p. 52: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf

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Anthropology students at UC Berkeley are occupying the Anthropology Library, a center for study and community that the university admin wants to close. See the recent NYT article for more.

submitted 663 days ago • 2 comments

Hello world. I'm here to tame AI, make life-changing friends, scan your home movies and find a substitute for Moore's Law.

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