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Horsing Around Historian 🐎🧢🍞πŸ₯–πŸ“š @ridingwriter.bsky.social

Love digital but film has a place also especially for archives. As a historian and preservationist, digital worries me about posterity. Will this era be known as a 'dark age' because of the lack of preserved art and writings?

aug 24, 2025, 11:55 am β€’ 1 0

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Kelly Fowler @kellyfirehorse.bsky.social

As someone who started out doing film as a kid, then switched to digital in the late 90’s I often think about this aspect. So many found glass negatives & even slide & film negatives have been β€œfound” or archived that give us a rich history. But I’m not sure that can happen very well with digital.

aug 24, 2025, 1:09 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Horsing Around Historian 🐎🧢🍞πŸ₯–πŸ“š @ridingwriter.bsky.social

Currently we do not have a truly good way of preserving digit media. And I wished I had better answers to this problem.

aug 24, 2025, 3:19 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view