#personalarchives — Public Fediverse posts

Hot Press: Myles O’Reilly launches Glen Hansard Footage Archive to share “hundreds of hours of unseen footage”. “Musician and filmmaker Myles O’Reilly has announced the Glen Hansard Footage Archive to share “hundreds of hours of unseen footage.” Pieced together from footage recorded over years of collaboration between O’Reilly and Hansard, the archive begins with his show at the Iveagh Gardens […]

Hot Press: Myles O’Reilly launches Glen Hansard Footage Archive to share “hundreds of hours of unseen footage”. “Musician and filmmaker Myles O’Reilly has announced the Glen Hansard Footage Archive to share “hundreds of hours of unseen footage.” Pieced together from footage recorded over years of collaboration between O’Reilly and Hansard, the archive begins with his show at the Iveagh Gardens […]

CSUN: CSUN Receives Federal Grant to Make Records of Pivotal Valley Politicians Available Online. “California State University, Northridge has received a $284,235 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to physically arrange, describe, rehouse, and make available over 400 linear feet of archival materials documenting the careers of [Bobbi] Fiedler, [James] Corman and [Ed] […]

CSUN: CSUN Receives Federal Grant to Make Records of Pivotal Valley Politicians Available Online. “California State University, Northridge has received a $284,235 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to physically arrange, describe, rehouse, and make available over 400 linear feet of archival materials documenting the careers of [Bobbi] Fiedler, [James] Corman and [Ed] […]

Revisiting the Slowmover Archive

The Archaelogy of a Blog

I have begun a long-overdue journey through the Slowmover archives.

Some of the earliest posts date back to 2008, which means I am not simply editing a website. I am revisiting nearly two decades of thought, faith, frustration, creativity, questions, poems, prayers, half-formed ideas, and occasional flashes of clarity.

The practical work is considerable. Old posts must be converted into the current block format. Broken links need to be repaired or removed. Categories and tags have multiplied, wandered off, or lost their usefulness. Images may be missing. Formatting has shifted. Publication information needs to be updated. Some pieces require only a little cleaning, while others invite substantial editing, correction, or expansion. A few may no longer need to remain at all.

There are sentences I would not write in the same way today. There are opinions I would express with more care, confidence, humility, or nuance. There are unfinished thoughts that still seem to be waiting for me. Some posts feel surprisingly current. Others belong unmistakably to the particular time in which they were written.

That, however, is part of their value.

A blog archive is not a polished autobiography. It is closer to an archaeological site. Layers of language remain where they were first deposited. Old concerns lie beside forgotten enthusiasms. There are fragments of previous selves: the person I was, the person I hoped to become, and the person who could not yet imagine where life would lead.

Editing these writings is, therefore, not simply an attempt to make them look better. It is an act of conversation with the past.

Sometimes, the earlier writer embarrasses me. Sometimes, he surprises me. Occasionally, I envy his urgency. At other times, I want to sit beside him and tell him that certain things will be all right, while other things will prove more complicated than he knows.

I do not intend to erase that earlier voice completely. Revision can easily become a kind of historical dishonesty, making it appear that we always possessed the wisdom we acquired only later. I want to preserve something of each post’s original moment while making the writing clearer, more readable, and more useful to those who may encounter it now.

Some posts will be corrected.

Some will be expanded.

Some will be combined with related pieces.

Some will receive new introductions or concluding reflections.

Some may be republished so that writings buried beneath years of newer material can find readers again.

And some will quietly disappear.

Whenever possible, these earlier writings will be returned to the calendar on the day they were originally written. When the exact date is uncertain or another date seems more appropriate, I will choose one that best reflects the piece’s history. Most will appear at 3:56 a.m., the time I entered this world as a baby.

That hour has become a kind of personal timestamp.

Each restored post will be given another beginning at the time of my own beginning—a small act of literary rebirth. Words written years ago will reenter the world at 3:56 in the morning, while most readers are asleep and the day itself has barely begun.

The choice is partly sentimental, partly symbolic, and perhaps a little strange. That seems appropriate for Slowmover.

The work raises an interesting question: When is a piece of writing finished?

Publication once seemed like an ending. I wrote something, pressed “publish,” and sent it into the world. Yet digital writing rarely stays fixed. Links decay. Platforms change. Images vanish. Language develops. The writer changes. The readers change. The world surrounding the words becomes a different world.

Perhaps a blog is not a shelf of completed objects but a living garden. Some plants need pruning. Some need transplanting. Some have gone to seed and unexpectedly produced something new. Some were planted in poor soil. Some have become tangled together. A few stubborn shoots continue to grow despite years of neglect.

Returning to Slowmover has also reminded me how much writing has accumulated here. The sheer number of posts makes the project daunting, but it also feels like a gift. I have spent years wondering whether I had written enough, accomplished enough, or found enough readers. The archive offers another answer: the words are here. They have been gathering quietly.

Readership matters to me. I would like these writings to be found, read, shared, and perhaps remembered. Updating titles, tags, categories, excerpts, publication details, images, and formatting is partly an effort to make that possible.

But readership is not only a matter of numbers. Sometimes, one person discovering the right piece at the right moment is enough to justify its continued existence.

There is also pleasure in the revisiting. Editing the archive is not merely maintenance. It is an opportunity to encounter forgotten ideas, recover abandoned paths, and recognize themes that I could not see while I was living and writing them. A post that once appeared isolated may now reveal itself as part of a much longer conversation.

This process will take time. That seems appropriate for a place called Slowmover.

I will move through the archive gradually, post by post, repairing what is broken, clearing away what obscures, and listening for what still has something to say.

The past cannot be rewritten entirely.

But it can be reread.

It can be tended.

It can be awakened in the darkness before dawn.

And sometimes, at 3:56 in the morning, it can enter the world again.

Revisiting the Slowmover Archive

The Archaelogy of a Blog

I have begun a long-overdue journey through the Slowmover archives.

Some of the earliest posts date back to 2008, which means I am not simply editing a website. I am revisiting nearly two decades of thought, faith, frustration, creativity, questions, poems, prayers, half-formed ideas, and occasional flashes of clarity.

The practical work is considerable. Old posts must be converted into the current block format. Broken links need to be repaired or removed. Categories and tags have multiplied, wandered off, or lost their usefulness. Images may be missing. Formatting has shifted. Publication information needs to be updated. Some pieces require only a little cleaning, while others invite substantial editing, correction, or expansion. A few may no longer need to remain at all.

There are sentences I would not write in the same way today. There are opinions I would express with more care, confidence, humility, or nuance. There are unfinished thoughts that still seem to be waiting for me. Some posts feel surprisingly current. Others belong unmistakably to the particular time in which they were written.

That, however, is part of their value.

A blog archive is not a polished autobiography. It is closer to an archaeological site. Layers of language remain where they were first deposited. Old concerns lie beside forgotten enthusiasms. There are fragments of previous selves: the person I was, the person I hoped to become, and the person who could not yet imagine where life would lead.

Editing these writings is, therefore, not simply an attempt to make them look better. It is an act of conversation with the past.

Sometimes, the earlier writer embarrasses me. Sometimes, he surprises me. Occasionally, I envy his urgency. At other times, I want to sit beside him and tell him that certain things will be all right, while other things will prove more complicated than he knows.

I do not intend to erase that earlier voice completely. Revision can easily become a kind of historical dishonesty, making it appear that we always possessed the wisdom we acquired only later. I want to preserve something of each post’s original moment while making the writing clearer, more readable, and more useful to those who may encounter it now.

Some posts will be corrected.

Some will be expanded.

Some will be combined with related pieces.

Some will receive new introductions or concluding reflections.

Some may be republished so that writings buried beneath years of newer material can find readers again.

And some will quietly disappear.

Whenever possible, these earlier writings will be returned to the calendar on the day they were originally written. When the exact date is uncertain or another date seems more appropriate, I will choose one that best reflects the piece’s history. Most will appear at 3:56 a.m., the time I entered this world as a baby.

That hour has become a kind of personal timestamp.

Each restored post will be given another beginning at the time of my own beginning—a small act of literary rebirth. Words written years ago will reenter the world at 3:56 in the morning, while most readers are asleep and the day itself has barely begun.

The choice is partly sentimental, partly symbolic, and perhaps a little strange. That seems appropriate for Slowmover.

The work raises an interesting question: When is a piece of writing finished?

Publication once seemed like an ending. I wrote something, pressed “publish,” and sent it into the world. Yet digital writing rarely stays fixed. Links decay. Platforms change. Images vanish. Language develops. The writer changes. The readers change. The world surrounding the words becomes a different world.

Perhaps a blog is not a shelf of completed objects but a living garden. Some plants need pruning. Some need transplanting. Some have gone to seed and unexpectedly produced something new. Some were planted in poor soil. Some have become tangled together. A few stubborn shoots continue to grow despite years of neglect.

Returning to Slowmover has also reminded me how much writing has accumulated here. The sheer number of posts makes the project daunting, but it also feels like a gift. I have spent years wondering whether I had written enough, accomplished enough, or found enough readers. The archive offers another answer: the words are here. They have been gathering quietly.

Readership matters to me. I would like these writings to be found, read, shared, and perhaps remembered. Updating titles, tags, categories, excerpts, publication details, images, and formatting is partly an effort to make that possible.

But readership is not only a matter of numbers. Sometimes, one person discovering the right piece at the right moment is enough to justify its continued existence.

There is also pleasure in the revisiting. Editing the archive is not merely maintenance. It is an opportunity to encounter forgotten ideas, recover abandoned paths, and recognize themes that I could not see while I was living and writing them. A post that once appeared isolated may now reveal itself as part of a much longer conversation.

This process will take time. That seems appropriate for a place called Slowmover.

I will move through the archive gradually, post by post, repairing what is broken, clearing away what obscures, and listening for what still has something to say.

The past cannot be rewritten entirely.

But it can be reread.

It can be tended.

It can be awakened in the darkness before dawn.

And sometimes, at 3:56 in the morning, it can enter the world again.

PR Newswire: New Digital Archive Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Broadway Legend, Two-Time Tony Award Winner Helen Gallagher, To Mark Her 100th Birthday (PRESS RELEASE). “To celebrate the life and legacy of Helen Gallagher, star of Broadway’s golden age and daytime television’s Ryan’s Hope, a new digital archive is now live, the most complete public record of her career, at […]

PR Newswire: New Digital Archive Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Broadway Legend, Two-Time Tony Award Winner Helen Gallagher, To Mark Her 100th Birthday (PRESS RELEASE). “To celebrate the life and legacy of Helen Gallagher, star of Broadway’s golden age and daytime television’s Ryan’s Hope, a new digital archive is now live, the most complete public record of her career, at […]

David W. Fitzsimmons: What will become of my life’s works?. “For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, the University of Arizona, specifically the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections Archive. Now that billionaire investor David Hoffman has acquired a controlling stake […]

David W. Fitzsimmons: What will become of my life’s works?. “For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, the University of Arizona, specifically the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections Archive. Now that billionaire investor David Hoffman has acquired a controlling stake […]

Mountain View Voice: Mountain View’s Computer History Museum receives $14 million donation. “The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has received two gifts totaling roughly $14 million to renovate its computer graphics gallery and preserve the collection of Autodesk co-founder John W. Walker.”

Mountain View Voice: Mountain View’s Computer History Museum receives $14 million donation. “The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has received two gifts totaling roughly $14 million to renovate its computer graphics gallery and preserve the collection of Autodesk co-founder John W. Walker.”

Billboard: Belmont University to House Johnny Cash’s Personal Archives. “A partnership among the Cash family, the John R. Cash Revocable Trust and Belmont University allows the collection to serve as the anchor for the new Johnny Cash Learning Center at Belmont’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business’s upcoming Music Row-located building. The collection is from the late […]

Billboard: Belmont University to House Johnny Cash’s Personal Archives. “A partnership among the Cash family, the John R. Cash Revocable Trust and Belmont University allows the collection to serve as the anchor for the new Johnny Cash Learning Center at Belmont’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business’s upcoming Music Row-located building. The collection is from the late […]

Camboja News: Kem Ley Archive Unveils Unpublished Writings Decade After His Killing. “A digital archive containing tens of thousands of speeches, handwritten notes and research by slain government critic Kem Ley will be released on Saturday, a day after supporters marked 10 years since he was gunned down in broad daylight in Phnom Penh. Dozens gathered at the Caltex gas station in the capital […]

Camboja News: Kem Ley Archive Unveils Unpublished Writings Decade After His Killing. “A digital archive containing tens of thousands of speeches, handwritten notes and research by slain government critic Kem Ley will be released on Saturday, a day after supporters marked 10 years since he was gunned down in broad daylight in Phnom Penh. Dozens gathered at the Caltex gas station in the capital […]

MIT Museum: MIT Museum Announces Landmark Acquisition of Architect I. M. Pei’s Archive. “The I. M. Pei archive includes approximately 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, 50 architectural models, and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts and other archives spanning more than sixty projects across Pei’s decades-long career. With this gift, the MIT Museum will become the leading steward and […]

MIT Museum: MIT Museum Announces Landmark Acquisition of Architect I. M. Pei’s Archive. “The I. M. Pei archive includes approximately 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, 50 architectural models, and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts and other archives spanning more than sixty projects across Pei’s decades-long career. With this gift, the MIT Museum will become the leading steward and […]

New Orleans Museum of Art: “Preparing Your Photos for Hurricane Season” Guide Now Available. “Nayla Maaruf, Conservator of Photographs and Works of Art on Paper at NOMA, developed a guide for protecting important family photographs ahead of hurricane season. This guide is available now as a free PDF for you to print and download.” Quick and useful.

New Orleans Museum of Art: “Preparing Your Photos for Hurricane Season” Guide Now Available. “Nayla Maaruf, Conservator of Photographs and Works of Art on Paper at NOMA, developed a guide for protecting important family photographs ahead of hurricane season. This guide is available now as a free PDF for you to print and download.” Quick and useful.

UC Berkeley Library: ‘A beautiful artist’: Mildred Howard’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, offering a peek into a singular creative mind. “Morning light filters through the gauzy curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows. A tufted chaise rests on a zebra-print rug. An oversized pear perches atop a stack of books beneath a scarlet semicolon, part of Howard’s series […]

UC Berkeley Library: ‘A beautiful artist’: Mildred Howard’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, offering a peek into a singular creative mind. “Morning light filters through the gauzy curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows. A tufted chaise rests on a zebra-print rug. An oversized pear perches atop a stack of books beneath a scarlet semicolon, part of Howard’s series […]

Indiana University Bloomington: Breaking Away and Beyond: New Steve Tesich Collection. “A major new collection that brings together the life and work of IU alumnus Steve Tesich was added to Archives Online last week. Tesich was an Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright, and novelist whose career stretched from the late 1960s through the mid 1990s. He was born Stojan Tešić in 1942 in Užice, […]

Indiana University Bloomington: Breaking Away and Beyond: New Steve Tesich Collection. “A major new collection that brings together the life and work of IU alumnus Steve Tesich was added to Archives Online last week. Tesich was an Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright, and novelist whose career stretched from the late 1960s through the mid 1990s. He was born Stojan Tešić in 1942 in Užice, […]

Utah State University: Outdoor Recreation Archive Receives Skip Yowell Papers, Documenting Outdoor Industry Trailblazer. “Utah State University’s Outdoor Recreation Archive has opened a new collection documenting the life and career of the late Skip Yowell (1946-2015), the longtime face of JanSport and a visionary in the outdoor industry.”

Utah State University: Outdoor Recreation Archive Receives Skip Yowell Papers, Documenting Outdoor Industry Trailblazer. “Utah State University’s Outdoor Recreation Archive has opened a new collection documenting the life and career of the late Skip Yowell (1946-2015), the longtime face of JanSport and a visionary in the outdoor industry.”

PetaPixel: Todd Webb, a Photographer Who Once Walked From New York to San Francisco, Has Archive Preserved. “Born in Detroit in 1905, Webb traveled the world and in the 1950s was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, which allowed him to photograph the pioneer trails of early American settlers as he walked from New York City to San Francisco. Webb also photographed in the United Kingdom, Papua […]

PetaPixel: Todd Webb, a Photographer Who Once Walked From New York to San Francisco, Has Archive Preserved. “Born in Detroit in 1905, Webb traveled the world and in the 1950s was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, which allowed him to photograph the pioneer trails of early American settlers as he walked from New York City to San Francisco. Webb also photographed in the United Kingdom, Papua […]

NBC Bay Area: San Francisco woman gets photographer’s old number. It changes both their lives. “[Wernher] Krutein, 72, has spent more than six decades traveling the world with a camera, documenting everything from people and architecture to insects and everyday objects. While his work spans continents, some of his most famous photographs were taken closer to home in San Francisco…. Starting […]

NBC Bay Area: San Francisco woman gets photographer’s old number. It changes both their lives. “[Wernher] Krutein, 72, has spent more than six decades traveling the world with a camera, documenting everything from people and architecture to insects and everyday objects. While his work spans continents, some of his most famous photographs were taken closer to home in San Francisco…. Starting […]

WGRZ: Comedian Mel Brooks donates career archives to National Comedy Center. “The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist’s career archive. The set is made up of 150,000 creative & production documents and 5,000 photos, some of which have never been seen by the public.”

WGRZ: Comedian Mel Brooks donates career archives to National Comedy Center. “The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist’s career archive. The set is made up of 150,000 creative & production documents and 5,000 photos, some of which have never been seen by the public.”

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: New Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Archives Collections now available online. “Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are delighted to have the collections of the La Touche Family, Joseph McGrath and Thomas Cullen digitised and published in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), an online archive for the preservation of Irish cultural heritage.”

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: New Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Archives Collections now available online. “Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are delighted to have the collections of the La Touche Family, Joseph McGrath and Thomas Cullen digitised and published in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), an online archive for the preservation of Irish cultural heritage.”

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Dead Air Fresheners continue our St. John's Portland Little Free Library tour with a rocking set of drops on Charleston Ave!

#silentsunday #littlefreelibrary #DeadAirFresheners #expunkimentalmusic #stjohns #portland #freemusic #spokenword #digitalphotography #may2026 #diy #JeanSmithpainter #JenniferRobin #MacDawg #BobBuckoJr #greenmonkeyrecords #personalarchives #KillPopTarts #nogenerativeai

Dead Air Fresheners continue our St. John's Portland Little Free Library tour with a rocking set of drops on Charleston Ave!

Dazed: The internet made us archive our lives – now we want out. “The shift points to a newer (and almost ironic) conundrum: part of the internet’s original appeal was that it offered us a way to document our lives and imagine that some piece of us might live on forever. But somewhere along the way, between the rise of curated feeds, influencer culture and the resurfacing of old celebrity […]

Dazed: The internet made us archive our lives – now we want out. “The shift points to a newer (and almost ironic) conundrum: part of the internet’s original appeal was that it offered us a way to document our lives and imagine that some piece of us might live on forever. But somewhere along the way, between the rise of curated feeds, influencer culture and the resurfacing of old celebrity […]

#aftertheflood #JukeboxFridayNight #DeadAirFresheners #personalarchives #expunkimentalmusic

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#aftertheflood #JukeboxFridayNight #DeadAirFresheners #personalarchives #expunkimentalmusic

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ARTNews: See Photos from Archives of Nine Photographers Going to Center for Creative Photography . “The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson has acquired the archives of nine photographers: Laura Aguilar, Jack Dykinga, Jody Forster, Frank Gohlke, Mark Klett, Nathan Lyons, Stephen Marc, Patrick Nagatani, and Susan Wood.”

ARTNews: See Photos from Archives of Nine Photographers Going to Center for Creative Photography . “The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson has acquired the archives of nine photographers: Laura Aguilar, Jack Dykinga, Jody Forster, Frank Gohlke, Mark Klett, Nathan Lyons, Stephen Marc, Patrick Nagatani, and Susan Wood.”

#deadairfresheners on a #stjohns #portland neighborhood #littlefreelibrary tour!

With #MacDawg on #personalarchives https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/the-rebirth-of-freedom-rock

With #JenniferRobin on #greenmonkeyrecords https://deadairfresheners.bandcamp.com/album/moon

#expunkimentalmusic #punk #experimentalmusic #theelusivehangar #physicalmedia #experimentalmusic

#deadairfresheners on a #stjohns #portland neighborhood #littlefreelibrary tour!

With #MacDawg on #personalarchives https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/the-rebirth-of-freedom-rock

With #JenniferRobin on #greenmonkeyrecords https://deadairfresheners.bandcamp.com/album/moon

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Harvard Law Today: For the late Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a vast digital legacy. “The Harvard Law School Library recently hosted an event commemorating the sweeping legacy of Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 and celebrating the completion of the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Working Papers Digitization Project, ensuring his deep insights will continue to benefit future scholars.”

Harvard Law Today: For the late Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a vast digital legacy. “The Harvard Law School Library recently hosted an event commemorating the sweeping legacy of Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 and celebrating the completion of the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Working Papers Digitization Project, ensuring his deep insights will continue to benefit future scholars.”

Florida State University: FSU Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich donates collection to Library of Congress archive. “The life’s work of one of America’s most decorated composers and a cornerstone of the Florida State University College of Music has found a permanent home in the nation’s capital. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1983, Marie Krafft […]

Florida State University: FSU Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich donates collection to Library of Congress archive. “The life’s work of one of America’s most decorated composers and a cornerstone of the Florida State University College of Music has found a permanent home in the nation’s capital. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1983, Marie Krafft […]

Los Angeles Magazine: Midcentury L.A. Through the Lens of Marvin Rand. “Southern California had long been known for new experiments in modern architecture, and lots of new buildings needed their picture taken. Enter Marvin Rand, and this weekend’s celebration of the famed architectural photographer at Cal Poly Pomona called ‘RandFest.'”

Los Angeles Magazine: Midcentury L.A. Through the Lens of Marvin Rand. “Southern California had long been known for new experiments in modern architecture, and lots of new buildings needed their picture taken. Enter Marvin Rand, and this weekend’s celebration of the famed architectural photographer at Cal Poly Pomona called ‘RandFest.'”

Indiana University Bloomington: Too Good to Be True? IU Acquires Legendary Magic Collection. “Announced on April 1, the acquisition may sound too good to be true—an illusion befitting the subject itself. But there is no trick, misdirection, or sleight-of-hand at work here. David Ben’s extraordinary collection is now held at one of the world’s great libraries, marking a landmark moment for […]

Indiana University Bloomington: Too Good to Be True? IU Acquires Legendary Magic Collection. “Announced on April 1, the acquisition may sound too good to be true—an illusion befitting the subject itself. But there is no trick, misdirection, or sleight-of-hand at work here. David Ben’s extraordinary collection is now held at one of the world’s great libraries, marking a landmark moment for […]

Video Game History Foundation: Our first “expansion pack”! New materials in our development collections. “This week, we’ve updated two of our existing library collections: the Mark Flitman papers and the Andrew Nelson papers! We recently received packages from Mark and Andrew containing new materials from their collections that we missed the first time around, as well as a few items we […]

Video Game History Foundation: Our first “expansion pack”! New materials in our development collections. “This week, we’ve updated two of our existing library collections: the Mark Flitman papers and the Andrew Nelson papers! We recently received packages from Mark and Andrew containing new materials from their collections that we missed the first time around, as well as a few items we […]

Hoover Institution: Court Rules Li Rui Collection to Remain at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. “The Hoover Institution and Stanford University undertook more than five years of legal proceedings and invested significant resources to defend in a U.S. court of law Li’s right to have his collection made available for study by scholars, historians and the public. Witnesses for both […]

Hoover Institution: Court Rules Li Rui Collection to Remain at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. “The Hoover Institution and Stanford University undertook more than five years of legal proceedings and invested significant resources to defend in a U.S. court of law Li’s right to have his collection made available for study by scholars, historians and the public. Witnesses for both […]

SwissInfo: New Swiss foundation to catalogue Jean-Luc Godard’s film archive. “The Jean-Luc Godard Foundation has ambitious goals: to list, preserve and share Godard’s archive. The French-Swiss film director died in 2022, leaving behind works scattered worldwide and the thorny matter of film rights.”

SwissInfo: New Swiss foundation to catalogue Jean-Luc Godard’s film archive. “The Jean-Luc Godard Foundation has ambitious goals: to list, preserve and share Godard’s archive. The French-Swiss film director died in 2022, leaving behind works scattered worldwide and the thorny matter of film rights.”

Brian Teeter: Introducing X Twitter Deleter — An Open-Source Tool to Take Back Control of Your Tweet History. “Maybe you’re cleaning up your online footprint. Maybe you just want to reclaim control over your own data. Whatever the reason, deleting your entire tweet history is surprisingly difficult. That’s why I built X Twitter Deleter.”

Brian Teeter: Introducing X Twitter Deleter — An Open-Source Tool to Take Back Control of Your Tweet History. “Maybe you’re cleaning up your online footprint. Maybe you just want to reclaim control over your own data. Whatever the reason, deleting your entire tweet history is surprisingly difficult. That’s why I built X Twitter Deleter.”