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Lately I’ve come to realise that I’m fairly scatterbrained.

2025 introduction Way back in 2014, I finally handed in my long-overdue master’s thesis at the University of Amsterdam for the Preservation and Presentation of the moving image program.

This text discusses exposure to acetic acid and nitrogen dioxide in film inspection, in the context of measurements made at the National Library of Norway in 2021.

Recently, I stumbled upon an old shoot-’em-up game called Tyrian, released in 1995.

I recently made the decision to move my home page from Jekyll to Hugo.

Presentation at the Digital libraries: storage for now and forever conference hosted by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Center at the National Library of Poland.

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I have typed out various specific cataloging procedures, I have pushed for certain cataloging changes, and I have specified requirements of our new cataloging system, but I have never spelled out the overarching principles I base my thoughts on.

There is a lot of “cool” things happening in the AI/ML field, but as other, more poignant, people have stated, there is an abundance of downsides, pitfalls and straight up dangers lurking in the background of it all.

Over the last year or so, I’ve been dabbling with various scripts to manipulate video, metadata etc.

Presentation held at the FIAF CDC Workshop “So Much More Than Non-Film: Cataloguing Film-Related Materials” in Stockholm 25.05.2023.

Digitising autonomous colours poses a range of challenges (“chromatic callier-effect”1, autonomous colours falling outside scanner spectral sensitivities2, etc.).

Presentation for FIAF CDC Preservation/Restoration Documentation Task Force about current and future(?)

Three layer risoprint of a photography processed using Stochaster.

Video backdrops for a club night at Lokal bar, Trondheim.

Music video/visuals for KEVINTHECREEP - Getaway boat.

Mix of southern 90s rap, with an emphasis on Memphis.