<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Patrick Keys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:citizenkeys@gmail.com">citizenkeys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
A big part of what I was hoping to setup was a good import/export deck,<br>
with VCR's, digitizer equipment, and the like.<br>
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You might have some equipment at home, but noisebridge gives people a<br>
place to work together on stuff.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote><div><font color="#888888"></font> <br>Patrick and all,<br><br>Let me start by saying the arcade is not abandoned. �Long live the arcade!<br><br>However, I have long been thinking about projects along these lines: a mediagroup at Noisebridge:<br>
<br>Noisebridge already has some of the kind of videocentric equipment you listed, but could very well use a copy stand, light boxes, and light rings for still photography of small projects. �We could use a group of people who meet regularly enough to know where equipment is stored,�how to use the tools, and how to train others. �A mediagroup at Noisebridge could maintain and improve a hardware library for�media capture and editing work while consolidating and testing the various designs solutions for�more esoteric hardware or software like copy stands, freestreaming solutions, and reversing the (currently) windows only microscope�cam we have.<br>
<br>In addition to offering a place for media capture and conversion, we should be contributing to open source projects (Lumiera really needs it, see <a href="http://lumiera.org/">http://lumiera.org/</a> ), and promoting creative commons licensing or copyleft philosophy for�work completed. �<br>
See <a href="http://creativecommons.org">http://creativecommons.org</a> , <a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a> , and <a href="http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/">http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/</a><br>
<br>In short, Noisebridge can certainly�be a place where tools are available to convert/upgrade�physical media into more portable, replicable, and spreadable digital media. �<br><br>I've already donated DVcameras, a tanktop,�digital audio recorders, microphones, suitcases ;), and other gear that has been used to produce and capture hundreds of hours of 5Mo'Fame video and audio from the last 14 months. �We still haven't edited that, it's a huge task to get done correctly and it needs more hands and eyes.<br>
<br>As for a getting a copy stand, Arlen on the Noisebridge darkroom list recently brought up the possibility of converting an enlarger for this purpose (see <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/darkroom">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/darkroom</a> ). �I'm really excited about the possibilities here, not just because I have boxes of journals and photographs that I'm interested in cc archiving :-)<br>
<br>Since the arcade is not truly abandoned, let's share the desk space there and clean up around the hack shelves in order to figure out a better storage system for the media equipment Noisebridge already has. �If we organize and label the hackshelves clearly we can�get space for more member shelves as well as groups storage. <br>
<br>We should work on this and�plan what else we�need, and how to continue with this project in the coming weeks.. �I'm there on Mondays and Tuesdays to start.<br><br><br>-ronald miloh alexander<br></div></div>