February 2012
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More on the digitizing of film...
If I found a reel of 35mm film in 500 years and didn’t know what it was, I could probably without too much trouble figure out a way to reverse engineer a projector. In any case, I can always look at the individual frames, even without a projector, and see what is there.
If I find a cache of Blu-rays and DCPs in 500 years, what do I have? Plastic waste. How do you reverse-engineer those media?...
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“Speaking very broadly, with 4K scans of color films you wind up in the...”
– Ken Weissman of the Library of Congress as quoted by David Bordwell in an article exploring the monetary as well as cultural cost of archiving, restoring and preserving film.
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Hey, Pinterest! I would love to join, but...
…guess what? I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. I don’t plan to join Facebook or Twitter, so I can’t accept any of the lovely invitations my friends have sent me requesting my presence on Pinterest. Please remedy this as soon as possible.
Thanks a bunch!
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When your team loses the Super Bowl...again.
What a sad day.
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