Ethan ⁽³²⁾

If anyone out there is reading this blog but happens not to follow me on Twitter, first off, let me tell you you're missing some gems. There is comfort in knowing that despite our Cold War differences, Soviet children were also traumatized by the loss of Bambi's…

Once upon a time, the cables in the MIAP lab were organized. I have a spreadsheet and everything to prove it. Video cables were neatly separated from audio-only cables, while patch cables and computer cables inhabited their own particular niches. Order and stability reigned. Was…

When last I left you, dear readers, I was stymied in my attempts to transplant a broken gear in a Tascam 112MKII audio cassette deck with a healthy replacement. A few tiny, inconveniently placed screws were stripped such as to prevent getting to the heart…

While you all await with bated breath the outcome of my riveting attempts to fix an audio cassette deck, this seems a relevant moment to share an email that my father sent to me after reading my first post here on The Patch Bay earlier…

A lot of the equipment I work with is shared between the MIAP program and the Cinema Studies department's Film Study Center archive. As one of oldest film studies programs in the country, NYU has been acquiring movies for screening and teaching purposes for decades, so…