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Shoebox Full of Photos:
Beyond Digital Storage
Jesse Chan-Norris
@jcn
#shoebox
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14. “Internet Archive is building a physical
archive for the long term preservation of
one copy of every book, record, and
movie we are able to attract or acquire.”
Brewster Kahle
June 6, 2011
Notas do Editor
schedule says it’s a panel\nit’s not, it’s a core conversation about what happens when we create and consume our photographs completely digitally\n
Hello\nI am Jesse, I co-founded a music company called Indaba Music, and i am a photographer. I’ve been shooting for over 10 years and this is a conversation I wanted to have as I started thinking about my relationship with photography\n
I used to shoot film with an old pentax spotmatic\nStill my favorite camera to shoot with\nBut practically speaking, a digital camera makes a lot of sense, so I’ve been shooting digital for about 8 years\n
it is awesome!\nIt's easy and I can share quickly\nAnd i love almost everything about digital photography\nbut there’s a persistence problem\n
100 year old photographs look the same now as they did\n<pass around the photo>\nbut what about a digital photo?\n
Just a reminder\nThis floppy disk is less than 20 years old, and I can't read it at all\nOK, so this is a pain\nMaybe the cloud will save us!\n\n
<sidekick>\n<geocities>\n\nYou don&#x2019;t control the cloud, which makes it very difficult to trust the cloud moving forward\n- what happens after death? what happens when it&#x2019;s not in their model?\n
Because it&#x2019;s only been in the past 5-10 years that thing things we do, photos we take, never have the need to actually hit paper\n
we lose a sense of importance for the individual shot\nfilm cost money to shoot and develop, but curation came for free\nnot so with digital\n\n
For things we really care about, we continue to curate and save in the form of prints and photo books\n- weddings\n- births\n\n
but what about those every day moments, those every day memories\nshould we be curating and saving those as well? should we be thinking about these as &#x201C;hundred year&#x201D; memories?\n\n
photography in abundance by erik kessels\nall the photos uploaded to flickr in a given day\ni like to think of this as a very visual representation of what happens when we don&#x2019;t curate\n
so what do you think? what do you think of this notion of a &#x201C;hundred year photo?&#x201D;\n- Digital photos will not last and we should accept that\n- Preserving photos does not mean saving everything\n- Digital archiving is a lot of work - effort required to save one photo physically vs a thousand photos digitally (and the opposite)\n\n
Wait\nNot about archiving\nthe internet archive does archiving very well\nactually, physical storage - interesting\n\n