gersart.bsky.social

Today I am watching Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov while analyzing his manifesto. I am amazed sometimes how researchers grab snippets of writing from disparate spaces to enhance the understanding of their own work.

In this case it is reflexivity and awareness that a camera is not an impartial observer. Choices of framing, location selection and editing all change the context of the work. Likewise ethics and representation.

I’m really hating that companies develop products with the assumption that your phone will do most of the processing. It’s a Phone. I don’t want the battery to die because your system requires wifi, and that I turn all other wifi off by connecting directly and THEN your POS disconnects.

Wow. Glancing at the Chapters wiki article my early assumptions are wrong. I always thought Heather Reisman controlled everything, but that is apparently not true. Chapters competed against indigo, but while I was away in BC Indigo bought Chapters. Reisman ran Indigo.

It’s sad that Ali g all of these trajectories affecting what we can find to read that libraries at universities have cut back on their collection material.

Wow. Glancing at the Chapters wiki article my early assumptions are wrong. I always thought Heather Reisman controlled everything, but that is apparently not true. Chapters competed against indigo, but while I was away in BC Indigo bought Chapters. Reisman ran Indigo.

Her model is that stock is only bought by the bookstore she. Items cross the counter. Until the. It belongs to the publisher. This is why small stores have trouble: they purchase their stock. I really think the conglomeration of book stores has affected the market for books and magazines.

A long time ago I was at the chapters at Dalhousie… the tables near the coffee shop. The whole idea of a bookstore was changing at that time in the early 2000s. There was a woman sitting, somewhat out of place. Not reading a magazine or drinking coffee. Just sitting. And watching.

Chapters has changed in the ensuing years. There is no longer a collaboration between them and Starbucks. Even the number and variety of magazines has changed. Key stores like the one on Whyte ave and Dalhousie have closed.

A long time ago I was at the chapters at Dalhousie… the tables near the coffee shop. The whole idea of a bookstore was changing at that time in the early 2000s. There was a woman sitting, somewhat out of place. Not reading a magazine or drinking coffee. Just sitting. And watching.

She said something that I will always remember. I never looked at her but I was observing the entirety of the space, the tables by the magazine racks “You don’t see me because I’m invisible” Granted, the general demeanor was one of “avoid” but it was mostly this persons attitude than their clothes

They are reminiscing over older internet memes before memes were a thing. Rusty spoons, honey badger, homestead runner… and of f course: duck job.aiff

I was watching an anime and someone opened a spell book and the pages inside looked exactly like the early gaming books for Chivalry and Sorcery (I think… typewritten collections of notes regarding all if the logistics for paying for castles as a knight)

Random email from livejournal today. I went to see if my old page exists and it does! The last entry was 2009, shortly before I stopped working at hotels. The photos are from the neighbourhood I live in now. I have completed an undergrad and two masters since then. nosarious.livejournal.com

Well… a map-based application stopped loading the material from geography databases, leaving me unable to use the app as I had been. Thankfully I was able to demonstrate it to someone else this morning but I am disappointed I cannot continue “playing” this afternoon.

I was talking to someone who mentioned their daughter, now in school, doesn’t really offer much when she is asked how her day was. But when going to a parent-teacher meeting when their daughter saw the swing she got a huge story in what happened that day.