This is why the work of librarians, antiquarians, collectors, archivists, and others are going to be so valuable. I once knew a writer and editor in Canada who told me that, in the face of creeping digitisation, his faith in the future rested in the hands of used bookstore owners who carefully collected and curated the record of what was published and distributed in the country. I'm increasingly coming to this view myself. I can't tell you how many files I've lost over the years, switching from one computer to the next and losing things in the cloud. I'm much more deliberate about keeping my own records, just in case.
Another example: people paid for an e-book on Amazon. The author decided to pull the title. People who had bought the e-book received notice the book had been withdrawn by the author. They were given a full refund - and the book was now gone. Imagine paying for a physical book. The publisher later shows up at your door, tells you it is no longer yours, removes the book from your library, and gives you check in the amount you paid for the book you no longer own. Welcome to the digital world, where nothing is really yours. 😳
Interesting idea. Especially about a publisher coming to your door and asking for the physical book back. In this case, I would have to say possession is nine points of the law. Since I already own the book (having legitimately purchased it), if the publisher wants the book back, then they need to be prepared to negotiate.
Thanks for this. I think it’s important to note that books are technology too. This platform is full of videos where people rip up older, increasingly rare printed matter to make temporary wallpaper, fill junk journals, journal covers, etc. These acts are usually caveated with “it’s fine; it’s old.” They never consider that there could be value in the item unless it boasts a very well-known name. The more that are destroyed, the harder it is to find primary sources for those forgotten or written out of history, or to have an unfiltered account of the past. (By that I mean not filtered through more modern opinions and perspectives.) At the same time, people keep insisting that the internet is forever. But I can tell you more about a stranger a century ago than a stranger today. That is, so long as archivists and archives aren’t decimated by governmental changes. In an era where kids are questioning the Holocaust and the Civil War is politically reframed, I hope everyone takes more effort to appreciate and protect information. EDIT: im completely annoyed and disheartened by the low upvotes on this video. I wish I knew how to make people care.
TH-cam is a struggle. I would have to drop things from airplanes and light my hair on fire to get people to watch things. It’s difficult. Similar to your example. People cut up old manual typewriters for their keys to make jewelry and some of the machines I have seen destroyed are worth thousands. It’s a strange world.
Beautifully said. Regarding things done digitally, never trust media and never trust a proprietary format that can’t be easily unpeeled without the original software. Trust, of course, pen and paper.
Tim, your skill as a producer further develops with each video. This is beautiful and thought provoking. As a lover of museums, artifacts, and architecture, I value the preservation of the past. We live in an increasingly disposable age, especially in North America. If a building is too expensive to maintain, we tear it down. Europe and other parts of the world, thankfully take care of their history more carefully. I am a scrapbooker so I at least have a large sampling of photos safely stored in archival albums. More importantly, those pages include journaling with names, dates, details, and feelings. Will any future generations be interested? I don’t know, but there is nothing like seeing MY children sitting with an album, reliving THEIR childhood captured in photos and words. I even gave them journaling boxes to fill out in their earliest handwriting, knowing full well they would come to appreciate it later on. Beautiful video, my dear!
This is such a good warning about how digitally stored things can easily be lost forever! I've had PCs that died or became so outdated I had to migrate to a new one. Many times before I knew about or understand how to backup my stuff. I know I lost important or sentimental items in moving on to the next PC.
I imagine it's only a matter of time until TH-cam considers the same cost cutting measures. Thank you for this artwork you curate into your videos. It is greatly appreciated how much time and money you spend to procure the video, still images and audio to go along with your narration. I always look forward to your commentary on the stationery world.
Thank you very much. Almost no one watched these so I really appreciate it. If YT cuts, I’m sure I’ll be one of the first to go. Thanks for being here.
"We are ephemereal, but the essence of humanity endures, and even if the particulars of our lives are lost, the ripples that we have made will reververate through time and space". This was so nicely put. Inspiring content as always, thank you as always :)
Very interesting video and put together really well. Kept me motivated to keep watching and i was a bit sad when it was finished. You're a video artist, Tim!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the kind words. It makes me sad how few people watch these after all the work I put into them. It makes me want to not do these kind of videos again, but comments of yours keep me going. Thank you.
@HemingwayJones awww that's disappointing :( Maybe they're a bit niche because they are a bit deeper and many people like simple and fast? Hope you'll keep going
This is so true! This channel truly transcends fountain pens! Amazing! I remember acquiescing to the accepted belief that the coming of the digital age was the start of a world where nothing of the past would ever be forgotten, including all the minutiae of daily life we all put into our Facebook accounts. But this is not true, as that information sits in servers somewhere, whose constant functioning burns energy -and space on the servers- and therefore it is an economic decision to keep them or erased them. I know the tragedy of many who, on the arriving of the VHS and Beta tapes, decided to transfer to them the family films which they then disposed of, not realizing that the films last forever, while video tapes self-erase after just a few years. But in general, as individuals and as communities, we start forgetting from the very moment we learn something new. What we know of the past is constantly diminishing, even though we can, from time to time, learn something that was lost from centuries, like this early composition of Mozart that was recently discovered. If it was not true, then, eventually, all our resources would be spent on maintaining alive the memory of the past, and that is very unlikely to be done! But that the ownership of history and of our very identity is slowly being transferred into the hands of a few corporations is something awful that should be fought. The great things about books is that, while reading them, we are never interrupted by silly ads or blocked by paywalls. Long live the books!
This is why having works available as hard copies is so important nowadays. Having a handful of companies control the licensing and distribution of books and other forms of media nowadays has ironically made “digital book burning” far easier than Ray Bradbury could have ever imagined.
Amazing video and I fully agree with all your points. I hope this video goes viral because people are too tightly bound to their digital worlds. They feel it’s their lifeline, but it’s a millstone tied to their neck, or a steel ball chained to their ankle, and the sea of technology is the tempest waiting to swallow them up. Tangible archives of our words, thoughts, photos and experiences are a legacy we can’t afford to let slip through our fingers, for the sake of our children, and our children’s children.
Thank you for this one. An all important subject that must be kept before everyone thanks for keeping the light on this issue. What a great name for a Dalmatian! Makes me want to break into song. “Oh Fortuna....... All The Best hope you guys are enjoying your trip.
What a great reminder! I got a pocket printer this year so I can start seriously journaling about events, trips and family that were saved on my phone. And I could only recreate digital photos from 2015 onwards. I realized I was losing a lot of documented memories.
I've lost a number of years of photos on a disk drive that crashed in the days before I knew how to retrieve them. I've also lost a decade of writing and publications because the Web site coding became so outdated no one could retrieve it.
Is it necessary to use pigment based inks in order to avoid future accidental water smears? Are there other options? My dye based inks seem very subject to problems when wet. What inks do you use for things you want to have last as long as possible?
Hi HJ! It's a sad state of affairs nowdays! I totally dislike people who retain copyrights on anything, really, even years after they were created. I think the laws need to be changed and after the 75 or 100 years everything should become public domain. There are some big corporations (and just not Paramount) who claim copyright on old children's stories and fairy tales, just because they made a movie on the subject in the last 50 years, and they threaten to sue ANY infringement on THEIR(?) creation. SHOCKING! And really pitiful, too!
I’ve preached this at friends. Also, lots of young people lose years of pictures every few years or so. I have to constantly explain to friends why but I put all of my cell pix on externals that are backed up three times in three drives. All of my old 35mm negatives i scanned years ago. Sadly, I don’t have a child or any extended family, so when I’m gone and there’s no one there to care, it’ll all just get thrown in the garbage anayway. But I have it all for me needs.
I am familiar with the term. Basic concept has been around all of the century and probably back into the 90s. We almost lost all of the Apollo mission data because of old file format that were no longer understood. Fortunately, there were a handful of old NASA employees who did know how to deal with the data and were able to recover it. There is a good discussion of this also, in the context of the military and intelligence communities, in Matt Ford and Andrew Hoskins' book, Radical War. In addition to loss of ability to read files and bitrot, they also have faced the problem of many different databases within incompatible formats, making it difficult to exchange and correlate data. Ford and Hoskins also have an important discussion of NGOs that are trying to preserve evidence of war crimes, at the time of the writing of the book, mostly in Syria, and show how quickly video evidence either disappears from the Internet or is altered. This is a slightly different aspect of what you're talking about, but it's important to understand. I've also heard the term used differently than you're using it, though also from person who is heavily into journaling, and promotes an analog lifestyle, as a way of describing what happens if there is a general breakdown of the power grid, the Internet, and data centers. I have been thinking about some of this quite a bit lately, and enjoyed your discussion. I think there's a lot more you could do with it if you want to. It's not a topic. A lot of people are talking about.
The Monty Python tapes were almost deleted by BBC because they wanted to re-use the media. Personally I never use cloud storage. I have backups on two separate drives which are stored away from the computer in two separate physical locations. I do have a lot of old photos, but everything I've taken in the past 20+ years is digital and stored on my archives. Paper has advantages, but negatives and prints do fade, and can be difficult to search. Some special (to me) videos I've captured and archived, as well as a huge number of articles.
That’s what digital money is about. Unless you have physical cash or precious metals or something you can trade your digital money could disappear in a second because you never really had it in your hand. This is the same with anything on digital media that someday will become obsolete and younwill have nothing that can read it. I look back on photos of my family going back to the late 1930’s. They are actually 85 year old photographs I don’t need some special device to read. If they were digital by now they would have disappeared. That’s what the digital dark age is about. It’s not just public media being deleted but personal media your descendents 50or 100 years from now may never see or be able to access. It’s like what if you made VHS tapes of birthday parties or trips in the early 1980’s. Do you have or can you find a machine to watch them now? Maybe you can convert them to digital files to watch on your computer but digital formats change and 100 years from now no computer will be able to read it orbyou can’t connect it to you device. We can still see home movies people made in the 1930’s. In 500 yesrs there will be nothing to see from this era while we have books from 500 years ago.
I may be wrong about this but I believe Isaac Asimov addressed this very topic in either the Empire or Foundation series of books 60-70 years ago. He discussed that even with the use of computers and endless storage there would be much of history that would be lost in the future because it was not maintained. This would thus severely limit our understanding of our past and even the loss of the most basic history of the human race.
This has been going on for millennia. Ancient Greek and Roman books were erased and repurposed during the post-roman era. We are just now recovering a few of them. More recently, old video tapes of shows from the 50's and 60's were erased to reuse for newer shows. I was on a project at Ampex trying to recover a few of them. Even some of the high resolution videos of the first Apollo landings on the moon were erased for reuse in later missions. You can't keep everything.
I don't know why my comment keeps getting deleted ... Continuing -- On the impact of fountain pens, part of my reason for going back to fountain pens was because my office was part of a historic flood in 2004. Many digital and paper files and books were destroyed. My pages that were written in gel pen (which I often used back then) all turned to smears. Ballpoint or fountain pen written documents had a longer life after drying... (although mold was a threat to all papers). Happy travels. It is. a good time to be safely out of the country as long as you voted before :)
Pentax made great lenses. Enjoy! You might enjoy "The Film Photography Podcast" (their project also sells film and darkroom supplies). Enjoy the LPs too! :)
@HemingwayJones well i was hesitant but I bought one that's supposedly never been used so im waiting for it to come... And I was just curious if it was a good decision
Taking a break from the depressing election results (so far). Timely piece as I recall the impact of MTV's "Rock the Vote" on increasing our generation's voting rates. You might be interested in some interesting books like Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity" or Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity." Both have written the relationship between corporate monopolies and their impact on media, politics, art, and information. Also "Bad Government and Silly Literature" by Carol Bly is kind of fun along those lines.
I don't think converting everything to newer formats is the answer here. In fact I think that might be going in the wrong direction. I think we should lean more on physical things when we can. Your example of writing in a journal is great, but it's only one step of many. if your photos are mostly digital, make a point of printing out the ones that you want to keep and put them in an album. Burn important videos to DVDs, get what you can off your computer and out of cloud storage, because these things are fallible and subject to the whims of the companies that control them. (In the case of your own computers, the OS makers such as Microsoft, Apple, etc.) If you can't hold it in your hands, it probably isn't safe from someone else deciding it should be deleted. Computers and digital means are great for producing things. Photos, recordings, etc. But they're awful for storing / preserving them. And that's not even talking about the dangers of data collection. If it's not on your PC, Phone, or the cloud, it's a lot harder for unscrupulous corporations and others to access.
This is all excellent advice, thank you. The one thing I would mention is that I am 57 and my film photos from the 90s already look terrible. Even they are degrading. It’s like grasping sand, My Friend.
@@HemingwayJones I hear ya'. 50 myself. Sorry you're having trouble with your older photos and stuff. I've had a similar issue, but it was because I went digital early on, and then lost a bunch of things. Opposite sides of the same coin I guess.
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This is why the work of librarians, antiquarians, collectors, archivists, and others are going to be so valuable.
I once knew a writer and editor in Canada who told me that, in the face of creeping digitisation, his faith in the future rested in the hands of used bookstore owners who carefully collected and curated the record of what was published and distributed in the country. I'm increasingly coming to this view myself.
I can't tell you how many files I've lost over the years, switching from one computer to the next and losing things in the cloud. I'm much more deliberate about keeping my own records, just in case.
Fascinating! I keep all of my notes / journals digitally *precisely* so that, some day, when I'm gone *nobody* will read them.
Good Plan. 😂
Another example: people paid for an e-book on Amazon. The author decided to pull the title. People who had bought the e-book received notice the book had been withdrawn by the author. They were given a full refund - and the book was now gone.
Imagine paying for a physical book. The publisher later shows up at your door, tells you it is no longer yours, removes the book from your library, and gives you check in the amount you paid for the book you no longer own.
Welcome to the digital world, where nothing is really yours. 😳
Interesting idea. Especially about a publisher coming to your door and asking for the physical book back. In this case, I would have to say possession is nine points of the law. Since I already own the book (having legitimately purchased it), if the publisher wants the book back, then they need to be prepared to negotiate.
Thanks for this.
I think it’s important to note that books are technology too. This platform is full of videos where people rip up older, increasingly rare printed matter to make temporary wallpaper, fill junk journals, journal covers, etc. These acts are usually caveated with “it’s fine; it’s old.” They never consider that there could be value in the item unless it boasts a very well-known name. The more that are destroyed, the harder it is to find primary sources for those forgotten or written out of history, or to have an unfiltered account of the past. (By that I mean not filtered through more modern opinions and perspectives.)
At the same time, people keep insisting that the internet is forever. But I can tell you more about a stranger a century ago than a stranger today. That is, so long as archivists and archives aren’t decimated by governmental changes. In an era where kids are questioning the Holocaust and the Civil War is politically reframed, I hope everyone takes more effort to appreciate and protect information.
EDIT: im completely annoyed and disheartened by the low upvotes on this video. I wish I knew how to make people care.
TH-cam is a struggle. I would have to drop things from airplanes and light my hair on fire to get people to watch things. It’s difficult. Similar to your example. People cut up old manual typewriters for their keys to make jewelry and some of the machines I have seen destroyed are worth thousands. It’s a strange world.
Beautifully said. Regarding things done digitally, never trust media and never trust a proprietary format that can’t be easily unpeeled without the original software. Trust, of course, pen and paper.
I completely agree with you on that.
Tim, your skill as a producer further develops with each video. This is beautiful and thought provoking. As a lover of museums, artifacts, and architecture, I value the preservation of the past. We live in an increasingly disposable age, especially in North America. If a building is too expensive to maintain, we tear it down. Europe and other parts of the world, thankfully take care of their history more carefully. I am a scrapbooker so I at least have a large sampling of photos safely stored in archival albums. More importantly, those pages include journaling with names, dates, details, and feelings. Will any future generations be interested? I don’t know, but there is nothing like seeing MY children sitting with an album, reliving THEIR childhood captured in photos and words. I even gave them journaling boxes to fill out in their earliest handwriting, knowing full well they would come to appreciate it later on. Beautiful video, my dear!
Thank you for the kind words!
This is such a good warning about how digitally stored things can easily be lost forever! I've had PCs that died or became so outdated I had to migrate to a new one. Many times before I knew about or understand how to backup my stuff. I know I lost important or sentimental items in moving on to the next PC.
Thanks so much!
I imagine it's only a matter of time until TH-cam considers the same cost cutting measures. Thank you for this artwork you curate into your videos. It is greatly appreciated how much time and money you spend to procure the video, still images and audio to go along with your narration. I always look forward to your commentary on the stationery world.
Thank you very much. Almost no one watched these so I really appreciate it. If YT cuts, I’m sure I’ll be one of the first to go. Thanks for being here.
"We are ephemereal, but the essence of humanity endures, and even if the particulars of our lives are lost, the ripples that we have made will reververate through time and space". This was so nicely put. Inspiring content as always, thank you as always :)
Thank you!
Very interesting video and put together really well. Kept me motivated to keep watching and i was a bit sad when it was finished.
You're a video artist, Tim!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the kind words. It makes me sad how few people watch these after all the work I put into them. It makes me want to not do these kind of videos again, but comments of yours keep me going. Thank you.
@HemingwayJones awww that's disappointing :( Maybe they're a bit niche because they are a bit deeper and many people like simple and fast? Hope you'll keep going
That was fun! See you all next week!
This is so true! This channel truly transcends fountain pens! Amazing!
I remember acquiescing to the accepted belief that the coming of the digital age was the start of a world where nothing of the past would ever be forgotten, including all the minutiae of daily life we all put into our Facebook accounts. But this is not true, as that information sits in servers somewhere, whose constant functioning burns energy -and space on the servers- and therefore it is an economic decision to keep them or erased them. I know the tragedy of many who, on the arriving of the VHS and Beta tapes, decided to transfer to them the family films which they then disposed of, not realizing that the films last forever, while video tapes self-erase after just a few years.
But in general, as individuals and as communities, we start forgetting from the very moment we learn something new. What we know of the past is constantly diminishing, even though we can, from time to time, learn something that was lost from centuries, like this early composition of Mozart that was recently discovered. If it was not true, then, eventually, all our resources would be spent on maintaining alive the memory of the past, and that is very unlikely to be done! But that the ownership of history and of our very identity is slowly being transferred into the hands of a few corporations is something awful that should be fought.
The great things about books is that, while reading them, we are never interrupted by silly ads or blocked by paywalls. Long live the books!
Thank you for the thoughtful comment!
I think we a drifting into a new age of post internet. Polaroids notebooks flip phones paperbooks DVDs are all coming back to life.
Truly!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I missed another opportunity to use that! Well stated!
This is why having works available as hard copies is so important nowadays. Having a handful of companies control the licensing and distribution of books and other forms of media nowadays has ironically made “digital book burning” far easier than Ray Bradbury could have ever imagined.
EXCELLENT topic, really well done, and thought-provoking. Thanks for bringing this up front to our growing little corner of the internet!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing video and I fully agree with all your points. I hope this video goes viral because people are too tightly bound to their digital worlds. They feel it’s their lifeline, but it’s a millstone tied to their neck, or a steel ball chained to their ankle, and the sea of technology is the tempest waiting to swallow them up. Tangible archives of our words, thoughts, photos and experiences are a legacy we can’t afford to let slip through our fingers, for the sake of our children, and our children’s children.
Sadly this was my worst performing video ever. It’s heartbreaking and discouraging.
@ Well, maybe in time it will gain traction when you least expect it. I truly enjoyed it.
@@sunnycharacter Thanks Again!
Thank you for this one. An all important subject that must be kept before everyone thanks for keeping the light on this issue. What a great name for a Dalmatian! Makes me want to break into song. “Oh Fortuna.......
All The Best hope you guys are enjoying your trip.
Thanks, HJ. Yall have fun!
Thanks for watching.
I really liked this video you did, I sure wish I could recover several cd rom disks of family pictures.
Me too!
What a great reminder! I got a pocket printer this year so I can start seriously journaling about events, trips and family that were saved on my phone. And I could only recreate digital photos from 2015 onwards. I realized I was losing a lot of documented memories.
I've lost a number of years of photos on a disk drive that crashed in the days before I knew how to retrieve them. I've also lost a decade of writing and publications because the Web site coding became so outdated no one could retrieve it.
So sorry.
Great video. Anyone know what the music is at around 7:54? Heard it on a few vidoes from you and quite like it
It’s “Long Way Home” by Kevin MacCloud (sp?) I like that it has a melancholy Titanic feel to it.
Just noticed - great interview with HJ on Lochby's site!
Thank you!
Your content gets better with every post
Thank you!
What a great, unique and scary video ! 😱 you could be the new Kurt Loder! Nicely done my friend.
Thank you very much! You are too kind.
Is it necessary to use pigment based inks in order to avoid future accidental water smears? Are there other options? My dye based inks seem very subject to problems when wet. What inks do you use for things you want to have last as long as possible?
There are many permanent inks out there for archival use. They are the best ones for longevity. Thank you so much!!!
Hi HJ! It's a sad state of affairs nowdays! I totally dislike people who retain copyrights on anything, really, even years after they were created. I think the laws need to be changed and after the 75 or 100 years everything should become public domain. There are some big corporations (and just not Paramount) who claim copyright on old children's stories and fairy tales, just because they made a movie on the subject in the last 50 years, and they threaten to sue ANY infringement on THEIR(?) creation. SHOCKING! And really pitiful, too!
It is very difficult to work around. Thanks for watching!
I’ve preached this at friends. Also, lots of young people lose years of pictures every few years or so. I have to constantly explain to friends why but I put all of my cell pix on externals that are backed up three times in three drives. All of my old 35mm negatives i scanned years ago. Sadly, I don’t have a child or any extended family, so when I’m gone and there’s no one there to care, it’ll all just get thrown in the garbage anayway. But I have it all for me needs.
Hey folks! Just dropped by to say howdy.
I am familiar with the term. Basic concept has been around all of the century and probably back into the 90s. We almost lost all of the Apollo mission data because of old file format that were no longer understood. Fortunately, there were a handful of old NASA employees who did know how to deal with the data and were able to recover it.
There is a good discussion of this also, in the context of the military and intelligence communities, in Matt Ford and Andrew Hoskins' book, Radical War. In addition to loss of ability to read files and bitrot, they also have faced the problem of many different databases within incompatible formats, making it difficult to exchange and correlate data. Ford and Hoskins also have an important discussion of NGOs that are trying to preserve evidence of war crimes, at the time of the writing of the book, mostly in Syria, and show how quickly video evidence either disappears from the Internet or is altered. This is a slightly different aspect of what you're talking about, but it's important to understand.
I've also heard the term used differently than you're using it, though also from person who is heavily into journaling, and promotes an analog lifestyle, as a way of describing what happens if there is a general breakdown of the power grid, the Internet, and data centers.
I have been thinking about some of this quite a bit lately, and enjoyed your discussion. I think there's a lot more you could do with it if you want to. It's not a topic. A lot of people are talking about.
Thank you for all of these thoughts. It is a topic that definitely needs to be discussed. Thanks for watching!
I thought it was going to be a premier but this works
The Monty Python tapes were almost deleted by BBC because they wanted to re-use the media.
Personally I never use cloud storage. I have backups on two separate drives which are stored away from the computer in two separate physical locations. I do have a lot of old photos, but everything I've taken in the past 20+ years is digital and stored on my archives. Paper has advantages, but negatives and prints do fade, and can be difficult to search. Some special (to me) videos I've captured and archived, as well as a huge number of articles.
Everything degrades and even stored media can become outdated and corrupted. It’s an odd state of affairs.
That’s what digital money is about. Unless you have physical cash or precious metals or something you can trade your digital money could disappear in a second because you never really had it in your hand. This is the same with anything on digital media that someday will become obsolete and younwill have nothing that can read it. I look back on photos of my family going back to the late 1930’s. They are actually 85 year old photographs I don’t need some special device to read. If they were digital by now they would have disappeared. That’s what the digital dark age is about. It’s not just public media being deleted but personal media your descendents 50or 100 years from now may never see or be able to access. It’s like what if you made VHS tapes of birthday parties or trips in the early 1980’s. Do you have or can you find a machine to watch them now? Maybe you can convert them to digital files to watch on your computer but digital formats change and 100 years from now no computer will be able to read it orbyou can’t connect it to you device. We can still see home movies people made in the 1930’s. In 500 yesrs there will be nothing to see from this era while we have books from 500 years ago.
Thanks for this video!
I may be wrong about this but I believe Isaac Asimov addressed this very topic in either the Empire or Foundation series of books 60-70 years ago. He discussed that even with the use of computers and endless storage there would be much of history that would be lost in the future because it was not maintained. This would thus severely limit our understanding of our past and even the loss of the most basic history of the human race.
It's so scary to think that we could lose so much! Asimov was a true visionary.
A famous example is BBC destroying some of Doctor Who. Some episodes only exist in audio form, record on cassette by fans.
Exactly. They just re-recorded over them.
This has been going on for millennia. Ancient Greek and Roman books were erased and repurposed during the post-roman era. We are just now recovering a few of them. More recently, old video tapes of shows from the 50's and 60's were erased to reuse for newer shows. I was on a project at Ampex trying to recover a few of them. Even some of the high resolution videos of the first Apollo landings on the moon were erased for reuse in later missions. You can't keep everything.
Losing media is sad. Willfully erasing and destroying for corporate avarice is tragic. Thanks for watching.
I don't know why my comment keeps getting deleted ... Continuing -- On the impact of fountain pens, part of my reason for going back to fountain pens was because my office was part of a historic flood in 2004. Many digital and paper files and books were destroyed. My pages that were written in gel pen (which I often used back then) all turned to smears. Ballpoint or fountain pen written documents had a longer life after drying... (although mold was a threat to all papers). Happy travels. It is. a good time to be safely out of the country as long as you voted before :)
And it’s about to get worse. Print out anything important, hand write in notebooks, don’t rely on companies and the cloud. Carry on ✌🏻
Hear, hear!
HJ's in Itally, lucky!
Thanks!
Thank you very very much!
Am reviving my almost antique Pentax ME Super, and have a new turntable for the records.
Pentax made great lenses. Enjoy! You might enjoy "The Film Photography Podcast" (their project also sells film and darkroom supplies). Enjoy the LPs too! :)
Hello do you know anything about Pobeda 63/ Victory 63 fountain pens? I know that they are vintage and from communist Bulgaria but are they nice?
I’m so sorry but I do not know anything about these. They look nice though.
@HemingwayJones well i was hesitant but I bought one that's supposedly never been used so im waiting for it to come... And I was just curious if it was a good decision
Doug lives somewhere in Massachusetts, and a banker. Sure he is glued to the election, imo. The livestream will likely be next week.
Anyone here?
Taking a break from the depressing election results (so far). Timely piece as I recall the impact of MTV's "Rock the Vote" on increasing our generation's voting rates. You might be interested in some interesting books like Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity" or Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity." Both have written the relationship between corporate monopolies and their impact on media, politics, art, and information. Also "Bad Government and Silly Literature" by Carol Bly is kind of fun along those lines.
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I don't think converting everything to newer formats is the answer here. In fact I think that might be going in the wrong direction. I think we should lean more on physical things when we can. Your example of writing in a journal is great, but it's only one step of many. if your photos are mostly digital, make a point of printing out the ones that you want to keep and put them in an album. Burn important videos to DVDs, get what you can off your computer and out of cloud storage, because these things are fallible and subject to the whims of the companies that control them. (In the case of your own computers, the OS makers such as Microsoft, Apple, etc.) If you can't hold it in your hands, it probably isn't safe from someone else deciding it should be deleted.
Computers and digital means are great for producing things. Photos, recordings, etc. But they're awful for storing / preserving them. And that's not even talking about the dangers of data collection. If it's not on your PC, Phone, or the cloud, it's a lot harder for unscrupulous corporations and others to access.
This is all excellent advice, thank you. The one thing I would mention is that I am 57 and my film photos from the 90s already look terrible. Even they are degrading. It’s like grasping sand, My Friend.
@@HemingwayJones I hear ya'. 50 myself. Sorry you're having trouble with your older photos and stuff. I've had a similar issue, but it was because I went digital early on, and then lost a bunch of things. Opposite sides of the same coin I guess.
Now you are talking!
I made it in. Didn’t seem like a program was starting
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HJ - this was a thought provoking and energizing video. Thank you for stretching our thinking once again. I celebrate your creativity.
Thank you very much. That means a lot to me.
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