Personal Narrative ⁽⁵⁾

As we quickly approach the one-year anniversary of the last time I updated this blog, a couple things have become clear to me: I'm extremely proud of The Patch Bay back catalog, particularly the evergreen posts on time, color, and audio in analog video that…

A little while back, I changed my display name on Twitter. Besides my actual name (all your anonymity is belong to us), I added on a second handle: @The_BFOOL@digipres.club. What is digipres.club? And why are myself and some other, potentially familiar-to-you users promoting it on…

Earlier this month I attended the annual conference for the Association of Moving Image Archivists, this year held in Pittsburgh. MIAP sends a healthy contingent every year of students, staff and faculty (not to mention the alumni filling up panel after panel), so this was…

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…

It's a common theme in moving image archiving and preservation that we are always running out of time. Tapes shed, files corrupt, bits rot, film reels turn into whatever the hell this monstrosity is (image credit: David Neary). Our job as archivists is a never-ending…