first look: Rob Welsh
Transworld January 1998

Working my way through Transworld. I've scanned 150 out of 397 total ~ 37.8% complete. That's around 40hours left of active scanning time. Let's get it.

I built a progress dashboard to keep me on track and have front and center my scanning goal for the day.

I have a linux PC working as a web server and hardware bridge, controlling two Canon EOS M50 cameras. My M2 Air is running the webapp the pc serves, and allows me to use it as the control center for the scanner and OBS streaming.

Started streaming the scanning efforts. Will do a write up on the software/hardware architecture that I settled on, I'm pretty happy with it.

Redid the site skateboard.fyi

Poweredge January 1989

Poweredge November 1988

scanning

made a severance mode for corner crop adjustments

sick Natas Kaupas spread in Poweredge May 1988

Poweredge January 1988

Rad @jgrantbrittain.bsky.social interview in June 1991 Poweredge

First magazine processed. Poweredge June 1991

Here's a contact sheet

yo unrelated, where'd you get this scan?

the scan processor is a program that takes a collection of scanned images, and allows for cropping, image correction, deskewing, and collating. To double check the automated cropping, I have a web ui that allows me to quickly modify the bounding polygon that was found.

A freshly painted blue-gray room

Several crates full of skateboard magazines

Setting up a livestreaming studio to scan the complete Transworld Skateboarding over the next few months.

Muddy Waters, McKinley Morganfield LP (1947-64) : Waters, Muddy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Muddy Waters, McKinley Morganfield (1947-64).  Chess 2CH-60006. Needle-drop recording.  Commercially not available.  Public domain in Canada.Boston Public...

listening to some public domain Muddy Waters this morning archive.org/details/wate...

there's some good names in skateboarding.. came upon Gerd Rieger in POWEREDGE April 1990

working on a scan processor for all the skate mags. I'm using local Apple VNDetectDocumentSegmentationRequest API to detect the corners. Then, I can use arrow keys to adjust corners. I get a little preview of the final crop, as well as a fine tune corner view for pixel level adjustments

scanning some old POWEREDGE mags

gathering wires and packing up to head down south ~~~ hoping/planning/pushing to digitize some skate mags in the new year!

skate goals before I'm 40:
1. Switch flips
2. Ollie Wallenberg

Currently working on building an Archivist style diy book scanner. In my research, I realized that Noisebridge in SF has one from the before times. Here's a picture I took last night ~~ it's in a hallway, covered in dust. Ready to be revived

got rid of DO and switched skateboard.fyi hosting to Hertzner

Interesting career development - I got a job as a butcher in a small neighborhood shop. I'm learning a lot, getting better at knife skills and customer service. Best of all, I am feeling strong from lifting 40ish lb things all day.

There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...

borzoi dog spirits met on a rainy sf day

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: "If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s." You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

File over app · 2023
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A man, a bag, a board: 57 days skateboarding across America Chad Caruso traveled 3,162 miles alone on skateboard to cross America in 57 days!

Chad Caruso just completed his cross country trek in 57 days and got the guiness world record
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/12...