The Church
The Internet Archive recently moved into a large Christian Science church.
This is, of course, completely absurd. I mean, the Archive now has a full pipe organ, and a gathering room filled with wooden pews, and a stained-glass skylight with a cross in the middle.
But apart from the absurdity, there is the reality that, from 1923 until just a few days ago, this church was a community center, a gathering place, a place to celebrate. Some of us had the chance to meet some of the church members during their celebration and farewell service two weeks ago; this post will try to honor them.
As we spoke, I was surprised that they didn’t seem very sad about leaving. Frances pointed out to me that the building is simply a building, and that the people who attend are the real church: a true Christian sentiment. They expressed gratitude that someone had come along to purchase the building.
After the farewell service at the church
Where would they go now for community? They said that it was up to each member to find her or his own way to other churches.
Hopefully, the Archive can carry on their spirit and grace.
The Archive recently moved into a (former) Christian Science church.
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monkey hats!
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Circuit-Bent Tabla Machine
“Check out this drum machine. It’s from India. I circuit-bent it!”
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An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube is an hour-long presentation that Prof. Michael Wesch gave at Library of Congress. Prof. Wesch researches digital ethnography at KSU and previously made the famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video in 2007.
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Cupcakes via Nokia 900
this is a macro test shot taken from a Nokia n900! Cupcakes from Cako. N900 from Finland.
Zaggle Gets You There with Personalized Event Newsletter
Over at the Zaggle Togetherness Blog we have a very important announcement :-)
Our new personalized email newsletter aggregates all the events your friends are attending into one simple email digest. You can set the email frequency anywhere from once per day to once per week. Here is a short example of what the email might look like, most emails will have more events than this.
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Panic Attack
Ataque de panico! (Panic Attack!) Is a short film describing an invasion of giant robots. What is impressive is knowing that it was carried by two men from Uruguay in six months with $ 300 budget.
I used to have that awesome robot in the opening shot..
This film would have been scarier if it included this giant flame-throwing robot baby:
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