video to book
“FlipClips’ books are like old-fashioned flip books: quickly flipping the pages creates a low-tech animation. What’s different about FlipClips, is that consumers can create their own books, simply by uploading a video to the company’s website. 15 seconds of digital video converts to 75 flippable pages.” (from Olivia Primanis)
One of the “transforms” from digital imaging turns out to be the flip book. Pause a moment to remember the penny arcade with its view scopes and crank handle activation. Inside was a giant roledex flip book. Authentic steam punk. Now they return to provide a refreshing, portable, energy efficient, real optical video.
“Now your home videos truly spring to life.”
dead tree
A recent e-mail subscript said; “Please, Consider the Environment before printing emails or attachments”. Exactly; consider if a printout for off-line reading may be more energy efficient than on-screen reading. This measure is discussed lately at
Rough Type and the greater environmental impact is (guess where).
Another recent inversion was the acquisition of a born digital conference proceeding for the Preservation department. More efficient to printout and bind the PDFs (the Kilgarlin
Grey to Green) than assure its long term access in the digital repository.
aic certification
Here is a good idea. The Code of Ethics is a template. It is used to guide actions. Why not create a Certification template as well? This template would be used by individuals to measure their own educational advancement. The Certification template would define the scope of the discipline and its component skills and it would state that definition for everyone. The Education and Training Committee could compile this template. Some of the resources, such as the book and Paper Catalog are already there.
ìPerhaps all this energy over certification would be better directed towards coming up with a definition of our profession that is “certified” and marketed to all of our conservation “clients.” Exactly, establish a Certification template equivalent to the Code of Ethics template.
îthe AIC could “certify” qualifications acquired by the applicant from his training program and also his good standing with the organization.î Exactly, certify the certifiers.
It must be considered that conservators of artistic and historic works know something of their consequence for transmission of culture. The standards of appreciation and practice are beyond any individual and anyone who imagines that Certification is sufficient qualification is not focused on the challenges imposed.
And what high horse and stack of bibles is AIC climbing up on? Let’s mind the grocery store and assure ever better meetings, publications, educational opportunities, efficient training and graceful methods.