While enjoying a tasty lunch of
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download all of our fingerprints to use in their own local copies of the Duplitron 5000. Would you like to experiment with this capability? If so, contact me on Twitter at @slifty.
discoverbooksInternet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on. Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone to a landfill. Through this process the Internet Archive has more books to digitize and preserve.
Together we are giving books the longest life possible both in print and online.
It started with a visit to Nuala Creed’s whatsapp lead ceramics studio in Petaluma in the spring of 2014. My interest was piqued as she described “a commission of sculptures for the Internet Archive” that was ever-growing. She heavily encouraged me to stop by the Archive to experience the famous Friday lunch and to see her work. I’m so glad she did.
Sausage and salad, I listened to Archive staff members talk about their week and curious visitors who shared their inspiration for coming to the Archive for a meal and a tour. I did not understand all the technical vocabulary, but I was struck by all the individuals who were working together on a project which, prior to this day, I had only experienced as a website on my computer screen.
Of course, I fell in love with Nuala’s sculptures as soon as we stepped inside the Great Room, where 100+ colorful figures stood facing the stage as if waiting for a performance or lecture to begin. The odd objects in their hands, their personally fashioned clothing, and their quirky expressions reinforced the idea that the Internet Archive was the shared, creative effort of a huge number of individuals. The technical was becoming human to me. By the time Brewster had brought his visitors back down into the common workspace, my mind was racing with ideas and questions.
discoverbooksInternet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on. Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone to a landfill. Through this process the Internet Archive has more books to digitize and preserve.
Together we are giving books the longest life possible both in print and online.
It started with a visit to Nuala Creed’s whatsapp lead ceramics studio in Petaluma in the spring of 2014. My interest was piqued as she described “a commission of sculptures for the Internet Archive” that was ever-growing. She heavily encouraged me to stop by the Archive to experience the famous Friday lunch and to see her work. I’m so glad she did.
Sausage and salad, I listened to Archive staff members talk about their week and curious visitors who shared their inspiration for coming to the Archive for a meal and a tour. I did not understand all the technical vocabulary, but I was struck by all the individuals who were working together on a project which, prior to this day, I had only experienced as a website on my computer screen.
Of course, I fell in love with Nuala’s sculptures as soon as we stepped inside the Great Room, where 100+ colorful figures stood facing the stage as if waiting for a performance or lecture to begin. The odd objects in their hands, their personally fashioned clothing, and their quirky expressions reinforced the idea that the Internet Archive was the shared, creative effort of a huge number of individuals. The technical was becoming human to me. By the time Brewster had brought his visitors back down into the common workspace, my mind was racing with ideas and questions.