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By Frank, 14 August 2005 6:58 pm

Oh well, looks like I’ve just missed this year’s one, but “HOME MOVIE DAY” seems like a good idea. A day to get together and show old home movies, and absorb the slices of life they represent.

What hit me hardest is the bit that says:

Your home movies may be easier to watch if you transfer them to videotape or DVDs, but the original films will actually last MUCH longer than any new media.

I know I’ve just lost some of my digital footage, and it occurred to me that there ought to be some sort of archival service which will transfer digitally produced/edited video onto stable, human-viewable, analogue filmstock. The equivalent, I guess, to printing an e-book on “acid free paper” for long-term storage.

If the promise of recording the day-to-day details of our lives for posterity is to make any sense at all, then the stuff we are recording now needs to still be there when posterity comes looking.

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By Frank, 14 August 2005 12:20 am

After shopping for the weekly groceries at Sainsbury’s supermarket a couple of miles from my house, I had another look around the car for my small flash camera which I had lost since our recent trip to Jersey. Eventually I found it at the bottom of a plastic carrier bag under the passenger seat.

So I took the opportunity to record some thoughts on my recent computer tribulations.

(WMV 3:22 5.5MB)