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Standing room only for Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscape of San Francisco 6 at the Internet Archive last night.?? New films including “process plates” from studios brought a new sharpness to many of the films presented. ? Suggested donations was 5 bucks or 5 books, and people brought lots of great books for the Archive.
Next is Lost Landscapes of Detroit on February 22, 2012– this is Detroit without the narratives being imposed on it.?? Doors open at 6:30, show at 7:30.
Thank you all!
Rick Prelinger will be presenting his latest version of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco at the Internet Archive.
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6 (2011) is the latest in a series of historical urban explorations, made from home movies, industrial and promotional films and outtakes, and other cinematic ephemera. It sold out the Castro Theatre in December, and this will be its second screening. YOU are the soundtrack. Please come prepared to shout out your identifications, ask questions about what’s on the screen, and share your thoughts with fellow audience members.
Most of the footage in this program has not been shown before. It includes footage of San Francisco’s cemeteries just before their removal, unique drive-thru footage of the Old Produce Market (now Golden Gateway) in the late 1940s, cruising the newly-built Embarcadero Freeway, grungy back streets in North Beach, the sandswept Sunset District in the 1930s, and newly-rediscovered Cinemascope footage of Playland, the Sky Tram and San Francisco scenes, all in Kodachrome.
Suggested admission for the screening: $5 bucks — or 5 books, which will be donated to Internet Archive’s book scanning project. Reservations are required, the event frequently sells out.
What: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6
When: Jan 24, 2012, 7:30pm
Where: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118
Contact: rsvp@archive.org
San Francisco, CA – On January 18, 2012, Internet Archive joined the thousands of internet websites that went dark in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation.
12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship
Hackers & Founders organized a protest in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. They joined forces with tech meetup organizers around the country to hold rallies in New York, Washington DC, Seattle and Silicon Valley to put a public face to the online protests and blackouts.
Speaking at the San Francisco event were many local luminaries including Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, Ron Conway, Jonathan Nelson, MC Hammer, Caterina Fake and others.
Brewster Kahle speaks at the PIPA / SOPA Protest in San Francisco
A digital collection on the January 2012 web blackout in protest of the SOPA and PIPA legislation being considered by the US Congress. Internet Archive’s Archive-It created a collection of websites related to this protest including those participating in the blackout as well as commentary and news surrounding the event. Thanks to Library of Congress and other colleagues for their url contributions.
The Internet Archive believes that it is critical to protest and raise awareness of pending legislation in the United States: ?House Bill 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
Archive.org is going dark for US residents from 8:00 am – 8:00 pm PDT on Wednesday January 18 (14:00 – 02:00 GMT) to drive a message to Washington.?? We need your help to do this.
Legislation such as this directly affects libraries (pdf) such as the Internet Archive, which collects, preserves, and offers access to cultural materials. ? Furthermore, these laws can negatively affect the ecosystem of web publishing that led to the emergence of the Internet Archive.
These bills would encourage the development of blacklists to censor sites with little recourse or due process.?? The Internet Archive is already blacklisted in China―let’s prevent the United States from establishing its own blacklist system.
For United States residents, please take action.
For non-US residents: Sorry for dragging you into this, and if you are willing, sign a petition to the State Department to express your concern.
–Internet Archive
Some coverage: BayCitizen,
Archive at SF protest.
We are about to rollout a “new new” video/audio player 
You can see it in action now with our upcoming embed codes to go with this new player.
It will allow for additional much wanted features like:
- off-site playlists
- fullscreen in many cases
- subtitles/captions
as well as the standard arbitrary width/height and “autoplay” options.
You can see some examples here:
http://www.archive.org/help/video.php
The rest is coming soon (if you are eager, you can even “opt in” now by clicking here:
http://www.archive.org/details/movies&newplayer=jw
(then take a look at one of your favorite items).
Now relax, sit back, and enjoy an archive video!
Cheers!
–tracey
How to operate your brain
This piece, featuring Timothy Leary, is from a series of video shorts produced by Retinalogic in the nineties.
It seems more like the sixties than the nineties (perhaps that was the intention?), and it’s long on form and short on content, but nevertheless makes for amusing viewing.
http://www.archive.org/details/Timothy_Leary_Archives_141.dv
― recommended by Dirk Lavitz
Handy farm devices and how to make them (1912)
I liked last week’s recommendation of Modern Hardware for Your Home, but prefer this book for a look at a long gone agrarian way of life.
http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924080109832
― recommended by Helen Swanson
Internet Archive Statusboard
How did we amass a library of over three million books? In large part, by carefully scanning one book at a time. If you want to know what the most recent to our library is, visit the status board.
http://statusboard.archive.org/
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
In celebration of the new year, we’d like to take you on a tour of news broadcasts from around January 1st from more than 60 stations in 30 countries. We hope the Happy News Year exhibit will highlight the amazing breadth of culture and opinion available through daily television news.
This exhibit includes content from Internet Archive’s television collections, Mosaic: World News from the Middle East and Scola.
You may also be interested in the Understanding 9/11 Television News Archive.
In the Suburbs (1957)
A look at suburbia sponsored by Redbook:
Here is a priceless view of the socio-economic conditions which led to what we now have to live with.
― recommended by David Cox
http://www.archive.org/details/IntheSub1957
Eiffel Tower
You probably know what the Eiffel Tower looks like; here’s what it sounds like. Since 1889, the world has assumed they knew the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Artist China Blue has proven them wrong. In October of 2007, China Blue, along with her technical team headed by auditory neuroscientist Seth Horowitz, discovered that it is a living, constantly fluxing iron organism: a living thing with its own song, derived from the structural vibrations as it responds to its environment. The Tower produces a pulsing range of sounds, from the subsonic vibrations of the iron born from footsteps, motors and the wind, to the hum of the steel chariots in the machine room, to the human voices that surround her.
http://www.archive.org/details/EiffelTower
― recommended by Alain Bresson
Modern Hardware for Your Home (ca. 1925)
You may think your home is full of modern technology, and it is. But “modern” is relative; here’s what a modern home might have had almost ninety years ago.
http://www.archive.org/details/ModernHardwareForYourHome
― recommended by Sarah Burke
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
Scrooge (1935)
Ah, who conveys the holiday spirit better than Scrooge?
This is the original English version, some fifteen minutes longer than the version edited for Americans with short attention span.
http://www.archive.org/details/Scrooge1935
― recommended by Leslie Graham
Little Master’s English-Telegu Dictionary
I thought I was one of the few Internet Archive users who’d want an English-Telegu dictionary, but I see it’s been downloaded over 30,000 times … way to go!
http://www.archive.org/details/englishtelugudic020994mbp
― recommended by Indira Hiebert
Hanukkah O Hanukkah
Is there an antidote to too many Christmas carols? Probably not, but, if there is, it might just be Mista Cookie Jar’s rendition of Hanukkah O Hanukkah.
http://www.archive.org/details/HanukkahOHanukkah
― recommended by Yoshi Batlan
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals : and an introduction to comparative anatomy (1834)
Once upon a time, a time before learned scientists talked about string theory and living in eleven dimensions, there was an age in which we knew about our world with certainty. And in the case of this book, we could list and illustrate those things, even though the oldest photograph in the world wasn’t even a decade old. The book promises “with pictures designed after nature,” and delivers.
http://www.archive.org/details/animalkingdomarr03cuvi
― recommended by Stefano Olieri
The Conet Project―Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
If you thought advances in telecommunication, encrypted email, and other new technologies obviated the need for short wave radio, then it’s time to think again. Here are a few lines from the introduction to this remarkable collection.
For more than 30 years, the shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the world’s intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of Numbers Stations. Why has the phenomenon of Numbers Stations? gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why does the Swedish Rhapsody Numbers Station use a small girl’s voice?
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
― recommended by Sarah Dillman
Mission Mind Control (July 10, 1979)
“This is the story of a thirty-year search by U.S. intelligence agencies to perfect mind control.” That’s how this 1970 ABC News documentary begins, after an unmistakably seventies musical introduction.
The film, part of the Archive’s FedFlix collecyion, hasn’t aged well, which is part of its appeal. With no pun intended, what a trip!
http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix
― recommended by Alexis Rossi
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
One of the many things I enjoy about being an artist in residence at the Internet Archive is the access to myriad resources. For a recent piece, I downloaded all one hundred and fifty-four of Shakespeare’s sonnets. I then selected the thirty-six poems with prime numbers. After that, I deleted the all the characters in them except for the first seven letters of the alphabet, which correspond to the letters of the musical scale. Here’s what Shakespeare’s seventh sonnet looks like after my editing.
eeeegacg
fbgeadeacdeee
dageeaeagg
egacedae
adagcbdeeeeae
eebggddeage
eaadebea
aedggdegage
befgceaca
efeebeageeeeefeda
eeefedeceedae
facadaea
efgg
ddeegea
I didn’t know how to convert the characters to music, but Aaron Ximm did. He showed me the P22 Music Text Composition Generator, which I used to convert the sonnets into thirty-six little pieces of music. I then assigned four sonnets worth of music to one voice in a nonet: piano, harpsichord, clavichord, celesta, organ, violin, viola, cello, and bass.
The end result was a seven minute piece in four movements that’s every bit as boring as it sounds. Having said that, I liked it. It’s like Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno said, “The tedium is the message.”
―David Glenn Rinehart
Since September 17th, 2011 when protesters descended on Wall Street, set up tents, and refused to move until their voices were heard, an impassioned plea for economic and social equality has manifested itself in similar protests and demonstrations around the world. Inspired by “Occupy Wall Street (OWS)”, these global protests and demonstrations are collectively now being referred to as the “Occupy Movement”.
In an effort to document these historic, and politically and socially charged, events as they unfold, IA’s Archive-It team has recently created an “Occupy Movement” collection to begin capturing information about the movement found online. With blogs communicating movement ideals and demands, social media used to coordinate demonstrations, and news related websites portraying the movement from a dizzying variety of angles, the presence and representation of the Occupy Movement online is both hugely valuable to our understanding of the movement as a whole, while constantly in-flux and at-risk.
The value of the collection hinges on the diversity, depth, and breadth of our seeds and websites we crawl. We are asking and encouraging anyone with websites they feel are important to archive, sites that tell a story about the movement, to pass them along and we will add them to the Occupy Movement collection. These might include movement-wide or city-specific websites, sites with images, blogs, YouTube videos, even Twitter accounts of individuals or organizations involved with the movement. No ideas or additions are too small or too large; perhaps your ideas or suggestions will be a unique part of the movement not yet represented in our collection. IA Archive-It friends and partners are already sending in seeds, which we greatly appreciate.
The web content captured in this collection will be included in the General Archive collection at http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet
which has been actively collecting materials on the Occupy Movement for a few months.
Please send any seeds suggestions, questions, or comments to Graham at graham@archive.org.
Dear Supporters of the Archive,
In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by twenty to twenty-five percent. ? This is great news, but we are doing it all on a shoestring budget.
This year we need your help.
In our virtual world, it is hard to see the 160 employees and countless volunteers at the Internet Archive that bring you these services, but we are here, and we are dedicated to building a global library that is free and open to all.
Please donate this year. Your continued support keeps the library free for millions of people.
-brewster
Founder and Digital Librarian
Internet Archive
Compute Magazine
The first issue of Compute Magazine from 1979 provides an interesting perspective on the birth of the personal computer industry. For example, there’s an ad for an eight-inch floppy drive for $1,295 ($3,800 adjusted for inflation).
http://www.archive.org/stream/1979-Fall-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_001_1979_Fall#page/n0/mode/2up
― recommended by Milton Jones
Sugar Rice Krinkles advertisement
Ever wonder where coulrophobia comes from?
This creepy clown is just one of the bizarre ads in Duke University’s Adviews collection, hosted at the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/details/dmbb02005
― recommended by Steve Barton
Mission of Burma Live at Maxwell’s on 5 December 2010
This recording from a year ago today features a premiere of a new song and several covers of old favorites in addition to the band’s warhorses.
http://www.archive.org/details/mob2010-12-05.maxwells_acidjack
― recommended by Harriet Hammer
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
Here’s Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s summary of Wednesday night’s talk.
Universal access to all knowledge, [Internet Archive founder] Kahle declared, will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. We are already well on the way. “We’re building the Library of Alexandria, version two. We can one-up the Greeks!”
Start with what the ancient library had―books. The Internet Archive already has three million books digitized. With twenty-nine scanning 29 centers around the world, they’re digitizing a thousand books a day.
As for music, when the Internet Archive offers music makers free, unlimited storage of their works forever, and the music poured in. The Archive audio collection has 100,000 concerts so far (including all the Grateful Dead) and a million recordings, with three new bands uploading every day.
Moving images. The 150,000 commercial movies ever made are tightly controlled, but 2 million other films are readily available and fascinating―600,000 of them are accessible in the Archive already. In the year 2000, without asking anyone’s permission, the Internet Archive started recording 20 channels of TV all day, every day. When 9/11 happened, they were able to assemble an online archive of TV news coverage from around the world (“TV comes with a point of view!”) and make it available just a month after the event on Oct. 11, 2001.
The Web itself. When the Internet Archive began in 1996, there were just 30 million web pages. Now the Wayback Machine copies every page of every website every two months and makes them time-searchable from its six-petabyte database of 150 billion pages. It has 500,000 users a day making 6,000 queries a second.
“What is the Library of Alexandria most famous for?” Kahle asked. “For burning! It’s all gone!” To maintain digital archives, they have to be used and loved, with every byte migrated forward into new media every five years. For backup, the whole Internet Archive is mirrored at the new Bibliotheca Alexadrina in Egypt and in Amsterdam. (“So our earthquake zone archive is backed up in the turbulent Mideast and a flood zone. I won’t sleep well until there are five or six backup sites.”)
Speaking of institutional longevity, Kahle noted during the Q & A that nonprofits demonstrably live much longer than businesses. It might be it’s because they have softer edges, he surmised, or that they’re free of the grow-or-die demands of commercial competition. Whatever the cause, they are proliferating.
―Stewart Brand
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
I was shooting with Eddie Knowles in Malani when I first heard of the tiger which later received the official recognition as the “Chapawat man-eater.”
That’s how Jim Corbett began his 1944 book, Man-Eaters Of Kumaon. On one hand, it’s an interesting, suspenseful page-turner. On the other hand, it’s also a glimpse in the colonialists’ view of Africa that’s alternately amusing and disturbing.
http://www.archive.org/details/maneatersofkumao029903mbp
― recommended by Boulaye Traore
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Path?tique”
The inimitable style of Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra more than compensates for the less than optimal audio quality of this 1938 recording. Definitely worth a listen if you think all recordings sound more or less the same.
http://www.archive.org/details/TchaikovskySymphonyNo.6pathtique
― recommended by Byron Hansen
Earth Time-Lapse View from Space
This is so cool.
I had to convince my daughter that the aurora borealis in the video is real and not CGI. Also, the lightning is awesome.
http://www.archive.org/details/EarthTimeLapseViewfromSpace
― recommended by Jeff Kaplan
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
Cluck Ol’ Hen
Another is this first or possibly second known recording of the classic fiddle tune Cluck Ol’ Hen from Fiddlin’ Powers. Simple and repetitive, but is has a bounce that I don’t hear in any other versions since. We’re fortunate this authentic Americana was preserved.
http://www.archive.org/details/FidilinPowers-CluckOldHen1925edison78RpmRecord
― recommended by John Littleton
Five Minutes To Live (1961)
This film is one of my favorites.
I’m a fan of Americana music, so this movie with Johnny Cash and Merle Travis is classic. Travis plays the music that Cash is pretending to play. Throw in Vic Tayback and Ron Howard pre-Opie as Johnny Cash’s hostage and well, does it get any better or weirder than that.
http://www.archive.org/details/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi
― recommended by Jeff Kaplan
Goody Two Shoes
Ever wonder where the phrase “Goody Two Shoes” came from? Goody Two Shoes was first published in 1765. This 1888 edition is only twenty pages long with lots of illustrations; it’s a perfect read for anyone with a short attention span and/or curious about one of the footnotes of popular culture.
http://www.archive.org/details/goodytwoshoes00newyiala
― recommended by Marcus Lucero
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge; a technical description in ordinary language (1936)
Here’s a fascinating book describing the building of the entire San Francisco (California) Bay Bridge, which opened seventy-five years ago. It’s full of fabulous illustrations.
http://www.archive.org/details/sanfranciscooakl00mens
― recommended by Mario Murphy
Buckminster Fuller, Everything I Know
Why? Because he was crazy enough to think he could change the world. Plus the pre-MTV green-screen production values are not to be believed. There should be a special award for anyone who can watch all 42 hours nonstop.
http://www.archive.org/details/buckminsterfuller
― recommended by Jeff Kaplan
Bad Panda
Bad Panda disseminates recordings based on the idea that, “music is about creative and passionate ideas, not product.” The label releases new work every Monday, an approach that’s earned a large following. For example, the ensemble Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles’ Brick City Love Song has been downloaded almost nine-hundred thousand times.
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is one of those works that’s become an integral part of popular culture, including an Oscar winning film. It’s worth going back to this 1894 edition to appreciate that a great story doesn’t need modern technology to work.
http://www.archive.org/details/alicesadventwond00carrrich
― recommended by Brewster Kahle
The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042)
A chilling audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.
http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16
― recommended by Gareth Hughes
The Three Stooges
These are the original knuckleheads. The American life shown in these popular films is charmingly dated, but the stupidity is timeless.
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories, Aimee Bender
Here’s how the publisher described Bender’s 1998 debut collection of short stories: Aimee Bender’s stories portray a world twisted on its axis, a place of unconvention that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect.
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL46566W/The_Girl_in_the_Flammable_Skirt
―suggested by George Oates
The Last Man on Earth
This classic film―based on the Richard Matheson science fiction Classic “I am Legend” and later remade as “The Omega Man”―features Vincent Price as a scientist in a post apocalyptic nightmare world consumed by bloodthirsty vampires. It’s a fine film for Halloween, or any other day.
For more information:
http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth
Recordings from the Illegal Art Exhibit collection
These songs are from the Illegal Art Exhibit, which documents the impact of copyright law on freedom of expression. Many of these tracks have been censored due to intellectual property law. For background on the particular tracks and the cases involved, see Copyright and Music: A History Told in MP3s.
http://www.archive.org/details/illegal-art
Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Basics, and Joseph Goldstein on Satipatthana
These two selections―one from a great lay Buddhist meditation teacher, the other from a renowned American bhikkhu (Buddhist monk)―are essentially thorough courses in the development of the Buddha’s teaching. If there is one thing that I think should be preserved for future generations―one thing that will be as relevant in five years as it will in 5,000 it is to be found in both of these collections.
And what is that one thing? It is this: 2,500 years ago, an extraordinary human being, through rigorous self-experimentation, discovered a method for untangling human suffering. This path he devised is a gradual one and, as such, it does not place unconditional demands upon one’s faith. Instead it produces distinct results for one who makes the time and puts forth the effort to cultivate the practice.
Of all the audio series that I’ve heard on the subject, these two collections are among the very best. The first is a systematic explication of one of the most famous of the the Buddha’s discourses on the art of meditation in 35 progressive hour-long talks. The second collection consists of 55 15 minute impromptu discourses that focus on practical aspects of the teaching and methods for the development of intuitive wisdom.
http://www.archive.org/details/basics-thanissaro-bhikkhu
http://www.archive.org/details/satipatthana-joseph-goldstein
―Danny Bernstein
What are your Archive favorites? Please suggest a link or two and a few words about why you appreciate your recommendation to:
bestof [at] archive.org
―David Glenn Rinehart
