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Today, we visit a unique library in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood. We unshelve the unusual at the Prelinger Library. Then, we learn about a new health program that is prescribing art. And, we hear readings from local poets in a special New Arrivals collection.

The New York Times has called Rick Prelinger “one of the great, undersung historians of 20th century cinema.” But the Bay Area-based archivist isn't known for books on Chaplin or Bergman. Instead, Rick and partner Megan Prelinger collect the film history of everyday life: home movies, industrial films, studio outtakes and other works that would otherwise be lost or forgotten. The duo may be best known for the free movies they make available through the Internet Archive digital library. And locally, they've gained a following for their “Lost Landscapes” film project, a compilation of historic Bay Area footage from their archives. We'll talk to Rick and Megan about the 18th and latest installment of “Lost Landscapes”, entitled “City and Bay in Motion: Transportation and Communication.” Guests: Rick Prelinger, founder, Prelinger Archives, whose moving image holdings may be found online at archive.org; co-founder, Prelinger Library, a publicly-available collection of historical periodicals, books, print ephemera, maps and government documents Megan Prelinger, co-founder, Prelinger Library; co-director, Prelinger Archives film digitization project. Prelinger is also the author of the books Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962 and Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age

Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is a world-renowned archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder of the Pray-linger Archives and the Pray-linger Library in San Francisco. He's also been a pioneer in making archives accessible to the public. In this episode, Prelinger talks about his work and how it has been influenced by diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Series: "The Art of Change" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38123]

Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is a world-renowned archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder of the Pray-linger Archives and the Pray-linger Library in San Francisco. He's also been a pioneer in making archives accessible to the public. In this episode, Prelinger talks about his work and how it has been influenced by diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Series: "The Art of Change" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38123]

Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is a world-renowned archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder of the Pray-linger Archives and the Pray-linger Library in San Francisco. He's also been a pioneer in making archives accessible to the public. In this episode, Prelinger talks about his work and how it has been influenced by diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Series: "The Art of Change" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38123]

Rick Prelinger, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, is a world-renowned archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder of the Pray-linger Archives and the Pray-linger Library in San Francisco. He's also been a pioneer in making archives accessible to the public. In this episode, Prelinger talks about his work and how it has been influenced by diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Series: "The Art of Change" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38123]

About Our Guest:Dr. Jerry Ratcliffehttps://www.jratcliffe.net/Reducing Crime, Podcast, Blog and Bookhttps://www.reducingcrime.com/Other:The introduction at  the start of the episode is from the Prelinger archives at archive.org.

About Our GuestKara Brisson-Boivinhttps://mediasmarts.ca/about-us/staff#k_boivinMediaSmartshttps://mediasmarts.ca/Take part in Cybersecurity Awareness Month Canadahttps://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/cyber-security-awareness-monthOtherThe audio from the start of this episode is from a famous film called "Duck and Cover" available from the Prelinger archive online at archive.orghttps://archive.org/details/DuckandC1951 Kara said I could use the title for the episode.  It is still hers though, you can ask her if you would like to use it somewhere. 

About Our Guest:Dr Tom Cockcrofthttps://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-tom-cockcroft/ Papers mentioned in this Episode:Cockcroft, T., Shan-A-Khuda, M., Schreuders, Z. C., & Trevorrow, P. (2021). Police cybercrime training: perceptions, pedagogy, and policy. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(1), 15-33.https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/15/1/15/5145767Cockcroft T (2020) Police Occupational Culture: Research and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press.Cockcroft T (2012) Police culture: themes and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge. Notes:The intro for this episode was from a 1951 film called "This is your Police Department" about the Detroit police department that romantically traces the training and career of a police officer in that city. Its available on the Prelinger archive.https://archive.org/details/ThisIsYo1951

About out Guest:https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/roberto.dillon/ Papers Mentioned in this EpisodeDillon, R., Chawla, S., Hristova, D., Göbl, B., & Jovicic, S. (2020). Password Policies vs. Usability: When Do Users Go “Bananas”?. In 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp. 148-153). IEEE.Grassi, P. A., Fenton, J. L., Newton, E. M., Perlner, R. A., Regenscheid, A. R., Burr, W. E., ... & Theofanos, M. F. (2017). Nist special publication 800-63b. digital identity guidelines: authentication and lifecycle management. Bericht, NIST.https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html Other:Holiday from Rules? by Portafilms, part of the Prelinger archive available at archive.org. https://archive.org/details/Holidayf1959 

About our Guest:Dr Fawn Ngo https://www.sarasotamanatee.usf.edu/academics/faculty-listing/dr-fawn-ngo.aspxPapers Mentioned in this Episode:Ngo, F. T., & Paternoster, R. (2011). Cybercrime victimization: An examination of individual and situational level factors. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 5(1), 773.https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=cjp_facpub_smNgo, F. T., Piquero, A. R., LaPrade, J., & Duong, B. (2020). Victimization in Cyberspace: Is It How Long We Spend Online, What We Do Online, or What We Post Online?. Criminal Justice Review, 45(4), 430-451.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0734016820934175?casa_token=Vt0COoV_h90AAAAA:kTqCfKrxt1gJxxbkX-7cX2lZPtHdLTt2koXK9bnTJAwlFvj3y4Gt-snnJN14xUWlfS5sK8y_RV6O5AOther:The intro from this week was from the Prelinger archives and drew from an 1940s encyclopedia britannica film about immigration, and a Folgers coffee commercial.  

About our Guest:Dr Yi Ting Chua:https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ytc36/Papers Mentioned in this Episode:Chua, Y. T., Parkin, S., Edwards, M., Oliveira, D., Schiffner, S., Tyson, G., & Hutchings, A. (2019, November). Identifying unintended harms of cybersecurity countermeasures. In 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) (pp. 1-15). IEEE.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9037589Refining the Blunt Instruments of Cybersecurity: A Framework to Coordinate Prevention and Preservation of BehavioursParkin, S., & Chua, Y. T. (2021, March). Refining the Blunt Instruments of Cybersecurity: A Framework to Coordinate Prevention and Preservation of Behaviours. Springer.https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112991/Other:The voice at the start of the episode is from a video on increasing precision in the manufacture of automobiles at general motors from the 1960s. It is available at the valuable archive.org as part of the Prelinger archives.I use Ikea FANTAST temperature probes, there are probably better ones out there, but these are cheap enough that I don't feel bad when they break.https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/fantast-meat-thermometer-timer-digital-black-80100406/

About our Guest:Dr. Jonathan Lusthaushttps://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/jonathan-lusthaus#/Articles Mentioned in this episode:Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime by Jonathan Lusthaushttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502106-industry-of-anonymityDarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glennyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11024696-darkmarketJonathan Lusthaus (2012) Trust in the world of cybercrime, Global Crime, 13:2, 71-94, DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2012.674183https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17440572.2012.674183J. Lusthaus, M. Bruce and N. Phair, "Mapping the Geography of Cybercrime: A Review of Indices of Digital Offending by Country," 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 2020, pp. 448-453, doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00066.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9229673Other:Flappy Bird.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_BirdThe voice sample is from the Prelinger archive at archive.org. An important resource. The song this week is called "Departed on Platform 2". I write all the songs we use on the show, I just thought you might like to know why I thought this one was appropriate for this episode.   

This week we try to make our own vaccines. We also talk about the Van Gogh laser light show coming to San Francisco. What do you think about that show? Let us know at congratulationspinetree@gmail.comThe music in this episode is by bastiengoatSupport the Cause Against Anti-Asian Violenceasians4blklives - Bay Area solidarity organizationHelp rebuild the Vietnamese American Community Center of the East BayOakland Councilmembers Bas and Fife video addressWhy Is the California Attorney General Investigating the San Francisco Art Institute? by Sam LefebvreVirtually Asian by Astria SuparakPrelinger's Lost Landscapes of San FranciscoIf Van Gough were alive would he take MDMA?

About the Guesthttps://unsw.adfa.edu.au/our-people/professor-monica-whittyPapers Mentioned:Whitty, M. T. (2019). Predicting susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood. Journal of Financial Crime.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JFC-10-2017-0095/full/html~~~Other:The cybersafety library resource program I mentioned is called cybersec101, you can find it here https://cybersec101.caThe hilarious PSA film "Safety: Harm Hides at home" used for the sample at the start can be found in the Prelinger archives at archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/safety_harm_hidesMusic made with software (looper) from AudioKit. https://audiokitpro.com/ 

About the Guest:https://uwaterloo.ca/school-of-accounting-and-finance/people-profiles/w-alec-cramPapers Mentioned in this Episode:Cram, W. A., D'arcy, J., & Proudfoot, J. G. (2019). Seeing the forest and the trees: a meta-analysis of the antecedents to information security policy compliance. MIS Quarterly, 43(2), 525-554.Other Notes: There was the punchline for an old joke in there, the original version is needlessly gendered, so I'll switch it and give the setup, An engineer (Practitioner) and a Mathematician (Theorist) were drinking at a bar. They both order a pint, and the Mathematician shares, "If I drink half of this beer now, half of the remainder in after a minute, half again in two minutes, and so on I will be able to drink for the rest of time". The Engineer replies, "Yes but in five minutes you will be drunk enough to order another (Close enough to finished for all practical purposes)".  ~~~ The sample from the start is from a film about factory safety that is in the Prelinger archives available at archive.org https://archive.org/details/1280FactorySafetyPiano is .... a piano. Cheezy casio drums are from https://lmms.io/.  

About the Guest:https://research.qut.edu.au/qut-law-lab/people/bridget-harris/ Papers Mentioned in this Episode:Harris, B. A., & Woodlock, D. (2019). Digital coercive control: Insights from two landmark domestic violence studies. The British Journal of Criminology, 59(3), 530-550.https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azy052 DeKeseredy, W. S., Schwartz, M. D., Harris, B., Woodlock, D., Nolan, J., & Hall-Sanchez, A. (2019). Technology-Facilitated Stalking and Unwanted Sexual Messages/Images in a College Campus Community: The Role of Negative Peer Support. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019828231Stark, E. (2007). Coercive control: The entrapment of women in personal life. Oxford University Press.Harris, Bridget (2020) Technology, domestic and family violence: perpetration, experiences and responses. QUT Centre for Justice.https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199781/ ~~~~~~Monkey Fashion Incident was referring to the events of the article below.  It is hard to describe visual thinks like this without being offensive, my apologies if the reference was upsetting. Blanchard, Tasmin (2019/02/08) Courting controversy: from H&M’s ‘coolest monkey’ to Gucci’s blackface jumper, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/08/courting-controversy-from-hms-coolest-monkey-to-guccis-blackface-jumper~~~~~~~~~ Online Safety resources in Australia :https://wesnet.org.au/https://www.esafety.gov.au/~~~~I drank a cup of tea before recording the introduction and close. Black Tea can make your mouth a little dry and it is not a good idea to drink it before recording voice.  I put the milk in after the hot water, I can not dismiss the suggestion that it is better that way(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea).  If you listen to this with good quality headphones, I am sorry about the mouth noise.  The tea was good.  ~~~~~~~Introduction was sampled from the "The Town and the Telephone" part of the Prelinger archives available at Archive.org. (https://archive.org/details/Townandt1950)Music made with software from AudioKit. https://audiokitpro.com/ 

Find out more about the Ontario Provincial Police here:https://www.opp.ca/~~~No papers in this episode, it was so very practical. The Office of the privacy Commissioner of Canada was mentioned. https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/SERENE-RISC was mentioned a few times. That's my day job. You can find them (us) here: www.serene-risc.ca.The opening was from a 1940s recruitment advertisement for the police service, part of the Prelinger archives on archive.org.https://archive.org/details/0456ElementsOfInvestigation01010403If you do go and watch that movie, immediately cleanse your palate with episode 23 of the reducing crime podcast, to hear Mo McGough talk about the work to change this presentation and reality of the police.  https://www.reducingcrime.com/podcast 

Find out more about the guest:Dr Catherine Marcum is an Assistant Chair of Government and Justice studies at Appalachian State University https://gjs.appstate.edu/directory/dr-cathy-marcum~~~~Texts Mentioned in this show:Marcum, C.D., Higgins, G.E., & Nicholson, J. (2018). Crossing Boundaries Online in Romantic Relationships: An Exploratory Study of the Perceptions of Impact on Partners by Cyberstalking Offenders. Deviant Behavior, 39(6Marcum, C. D., Higgins, G. E., Wolfe, S. E., & Ricketts, M. L. (2011). Examining the intersection of self-control, peer association and neutralization in explaining digital piracy. Western Criminology Review, 12(3), 60.Marcum, C. D., Higgins, G. E., & Ricketts, M. L. (2014). Sexting behaviors among adolescents in rural North Carolina: a theoretical examination of low self-control and deviant peer association. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 8(2). Marcum, C. D., Higgins, G. E., Ricketts, M. L., & Wolfe, S. E. (2014). Hacking in high school: Cybercrime perpetration by juveniles. Deviant Behavior, 35(7), 581-591.More:You can learn about the DARE Program here:https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/just-say-nohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education The introduction from this show was extracted from an educational show about the value of science. Check out the Prelinger archives for public domain videos containing interesting history. A wonderful resource.  https://archive.org/details/prelinger

Find out more about the guest:Dr. Tom Holt is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. https://cj.msu.edu/directory/holt-thomas.html~~~~Texts Mentioned in this show:Holt, T. J., & Bossler, A. M. (2015). Cybercrime in progress: Theory and prevention of technology-enabled offenses. Routledge.https://www.routledge.com/Cybercrime-in-Progress-Theory-and-prevention-of-technology-enabled-offenses/Holt-Bossler/p/book/9781138024168~~~~~~~Deterrence Theory https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/deterrence-theoryGeneral Theory - Self control https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0004.xml?Social Learning Theory https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0002.xml?Sub-Cultures of Crime https://soztheo.de/theories-of-crime/learning-subculture/subcultural-theory-cohen/?lang=enTechniques of Neutralization and Drifthttps://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0140.xmlActor Network Theoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theoryDrake presents a story of moving from the bottom to here, not sure where here is though.    https://youtu.be/RubBzkZzpUA Gauthier and Forsyth provide an analysis of "Bug-Chasing". K. Gauthier, D., & J. Forsyth, C. (1999). Bareback sex, bug chasers, and the gift of death. Deviant Behavior, 20(1), 85-100.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/016396299266605If you are curious about the rules of the internet, bear in mind that these have always been very dynamic.  The link below shows a list.  Keep in mind that a lot of this is a joke, and there was never any real process for deciding on this rules, apart from they should be funny.  Rumour is that rule 34 was the first rule.  If you have no idea what this is all about then take care in researching as it is all 'fringe' internet culture, mostly NSFW and some things cannot be unseen.   The link below is picture free, apart from some ascii graphics. https://web.archive.org/web/20160217040548/http://rulesoftheinternet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page The introduction from this show was extracted from an educational show about the value of science. Check out the Prelinger archives for public domain videos containing interesting history. A wonderful resource.  https://archive.org/details/prelinger

More About  the researcher:https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/n/james-nicholson/ Papers mentioned in this episode:Nicholson, J., Coventry, L., & Briggs, P. (2019, April). If It's Important It Will Be A Headline: Cybersecurity Information Seeking in Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 349). ACM.https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300579 ~~~~~The introduction was from a video on the importance of radio.  Check out the Prelinger archives for public domain videos containing interesting history. https://archive.org/details/prelinger   "Turn up your Radio"  was a song by Australian Rock group the Master's Apprentices.  If you read this far, treat yourself ;)/ 

Learn more about Dr. Ruth Shillair:https://comartsci.msu.edu/our-people/ruth-shillair Papers Mentioned in this Show:Mind the Gap: Perceived Self- Efficacy, Domain Knowledge and Their Effects on Responses to a Cybersecurity Compliance Messagehttps://search.proquest.com/openview/4f7a33e56a07c7f9a3ecfb816a22fbdc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y~~~~~~~Multiple Sources for Security: Seeking Online Safety Information and their Influence on Coping Self-efficacy and Protection Behavior Habitshttps://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/41766~~~~~Robin L. Nabi, David Roskos-Ewoldsen & Francesca Dillman Carpentier (2008) Subjective Knowledge and Fear Appeal Effectiveness: Implications for Message Design, Health Communication, 23:2, 191-201, DOI: 10.1080/10410230701808327https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410230701808327?casa_token=UmsHgY2iyLgAAAAA%3AIyyjYaafyC6VtNphiIwzJWYo95cZdEU4m7QYF-TRtcRcsHtV0iwXoJg4wveyaMmmMRQypbXSf03e-w The introduction was from a PSA on the dangers of bad habits.  Check out the Public Domain content of the Prelinger archives for more interesting historical recordings. https://archive.org/details/prelinger

Over years of working with children of divorce, Kate has compiled a list of 30 promises every divorcing parent should make to their children. In this third installment of our special series "The Divorced Parents' Pledge, " Kate and Jane discuss clauses 11-15 of this important list. Take the pledge, you owe it to your kids- and yourself!

In this episode of "Divorce on Planet Earth" Kate and Jane take on the oft-debated question of whether staying together until kids leave home is kinder and less disruptive than breaking up when they're younger and still living at home fulltime. Is there a one-size-fits-all answer? What factors should parents consider? What if parents don't agree?

Hearing distorted, negative comments about you coming out of the mouths of your kids after they've spent time with their other parent is horribly painful. You know you're not supposed to disparage their other parent or put your kids in the middle, but you don't want to be painted as the villain! In this episode of "Divorce on Planet Earth," Kate and her new co-host, psychotherapist extraordinaire Jane Prelinger, offer practical advice for taking on this tough problem in a compassionate, direct way that protects and reassures your kids, redresses misinformation, and strenghtens your parent/child relationship.

You're getting divorced, and you want your kids to know that they still have two loving parents. You also want to minimize the disruption to your kids lives, and for them to see that you and your ex respect each other and can co-parent well. Does that mean you and your ex should continue to spend significant time together with your children "as a family?" Should you hold on to old traditions, like Sunday dinners and winter break vacations? In this episode Kate Scharff and co-host Jane Prelinger offer their thoughts on this important and complicated topic.

In this introduction to "Divorce on Planet Earth: Real World Advice for Well-Intentioned Humans," psychotherapist and divorce expert Kate Scharff (along with co-host, psychotherapist Jane Prelinger), explains her approach to divorce advice-- and what sets it apart from the pack. Kate and Jane have a cumulative 50 years of experience working with couples and families, and have helped thousands of people navigate the tough divorce terrain. But they have each experienced divorce, both as a children and as parents, so they know that in the emotional cyclone of divorce it's a lot easier to seek advice than to put it into action. Their perspective is humble and realistic- they offers sound, sage wisdom on even the thorniest, least talked-about topics, while encouraging listeners to accept that they're only human. Kate's philosophy in a nutshell? Do the best you can, forgive yourself when you screw up, apologize when necessary, and resolve to do better next time-- so you can survive, thrive, and get on with the rest of your life.

Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to ask the question, “What cultural history of electronics can be extrapolated from a close look at the associated graphic art?” Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (W. W. Norton, 2015) treats the commercial and advertising art of the mid-twentieth century as an archive to explore the social and cultural engagement with electronics technologies during a particularly vibrant moment for the American graphic commercial arts. Incorporating text and image as sources to be read, Prelinger’s book moves from the beginnings of FM technology and vacuum tubes, to televisions and quartz crystals, to transistors and circuit boards, to digital computing and into space. Of special interest is the attention Prelinger pays to to the importance of graphic designers and staff artists at major labs and research centers. The book models an innovative and inspiring way to read graphic images as historical documents, and the story is a pleasure to read for specialists and non-experts alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to ask the question, “What cultural history of electronics can be extrapolated from a close look at the associated graphic art?” Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (W. W. Norton, 2015) treats the commercial and advertising art of the mid-twentieth century as an archive to explore the social and cultural engagement with electronics technologies during a particularly vibrant moment for the American graphic commercial arts. Incorporating text and image as sources to be read, Prelinger’s book moves from the beginnings of FM technology and vacuum tubes, to televisions and quartz crystals, to transistors and circuit boards, to digital computing and into space. Of special interest is the attention Prelinger pays to to the importance of graphic designers and staff artists at major labs and research centers. The book models an innovative and inspiring way to read graphic images as historical documents, and the story is a pleasure to read for specialists and non-experts alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to ask the question, “What cultural history of electronics can be extrapolated from a close look at the associated graphic art?” Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (W. W. Norton, 2015) treats the commercial and advertising art of the mid-twentieth century as an archive to explore the social and cultural engagement with electronics technologies during a particularly vibrant moment for the American graphic commercial arts. Incorporating text and image as sources to be read, Prelinger’s book moves from the beginnings of FM technology and vacuum tubes, to televisions and quartz crystals, to transistors and circuit boards, to digital computing and into space. Of special interest is the attention Prelinger pays to to the importance of graphic designers and staff artists at major labs and research centers. The book models an innovative and inspiring way to read graphic images as historical documents, and the story is a pleasure to read for specialists and non-experts alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to ask the question, “What cultural history of electronics can be extrapolated from a close look at the associated graphic art?” Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (W. W. Norton, 2015) treats the commercial and advertising art of the mid-twentieth century as an archive to explore the social and cultural engagement with electronics technologies during a particularly vibrant moment for the American graphic commercial arts. Incorporating text and image as sources to be read, Prelinger’s book moves from the beginnings of FM technology and vacuum tubes, to televisions and quartz crystals, to transistors and circuit boards, to digital computing and into space. Of special interest is the attention Prelinger pays to to the importance of graphic designers and staff artists at major labs and research centers. The book models an innovative and inspiring way to read graphic images as historical documents, and the story is a pleasure to read for specialists and non-experts alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Prelinger‘s beautiful new book brings together the histories of technology and visuality to ask the question, “What cultural history of electronics can be extrapolated from a close look at the associated graphic art?” Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (W. W. Norton, 2015) treats the commercial and advertising art of the mid-twentieth century as an archive to explore the social and cultural engagement with electronics technologies during a particularly vibrant moment for the American graphic commercial arts. Incorporating text and image as sources to be read, Prelinger’s book moves from the beginnings of FM technology and vacuum tubes, to televisions and quartz crystals, to transistors and circuit boards, to digital computing and into space. Of special interest is the attention Prelinger pays to to the importance of graphic designers and staff artists at major labs and research centers. The book models an innovative and inspiring way to read graphic images as historical documents, and the story is a pleasure to read for specialists and non-experts alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Prelinger tells us about the one of most open physical libraries in the world, right in San Francisco!

Archivist, educator and filmmaker Rick Prelinger has a remarkable eye for the unexpected value of ephemera. A massive collection of educational and industrial films he collected under the auspices of the Prelinger Archives was acquired by the Library of Congress, and with his wife, Megan Prelinger, he co-founded the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, stuffed with printed material you’d be unlikely to find elsewhere. More recently he’s been working with old home movies — thousands of them, donated or otherwise acquired. This is basically material nobody else wanted, not even the descendants of whoever made them. He’s used it to build a remarkable series of films – one is made of footage from San Francisco, another from Detroit. Old home movies are mostly silent, and he adds no narration or even a score. Instead, he stands on stage at screenings, riffs about the clips, and encourages viewers to chime in from their seats. This actually works: the audience at Prelinger’s screenings are surprisingly vocal. Prelinger’s most recent is the more broadly themed No More Road Trips? Writer Rob Walker spoke with Prelinger about the film and his career in finding joy and insight in media most people eventually throw away.   The stills, below are all from No More Road Trips? (2013), courtesy of Rick Prelinger.  .   Produced by Rob Walker with Shelby El Otmani.

Online 24 hours each day 1 – 31 March, avfestival.co.uk / thepixelpalace.org - Radio Boredcast is a 744-hour continuous online radio project, curated by artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)

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Rick Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fourth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings. You'll see an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the screening with a brief talk on how historical memory is shifting away from mass culture towards individual expression, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records.

Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Prelinger will be presenting his third annual "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, an eclectic montage of lost and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the film with a brief talk on how fragmentary, incomplete histories are being overtaken by pervasive real-time documentation, and how history, memory and property are combining into a new matrix of experience. Since 01983 Rick has been collecting ephemeral films: advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works. In 02002, the Prelinger film collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; much of it is available online at the Internet Archive. In 02004 Prelinger and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco, which includes over 50,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps and zines. We encourage the audience to interact with the film, especially to identify mystery scenes!