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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

To hell with paper!

What´s the alternative, paper has more resolution and DR than any digital media, and it´s inexpensive ;-)
 
What's the matter Roberto? Cut yourself? ...Paper can be evil, yes.
 
Blisters from writing too many cam reports?
 
What's odd is you can use a paper towel to blot the paper cut. It's so prone to mood swings.

Anyone ever cut themselves on the paper sleeve that holds the bandage?
 
Warning: Anecdote ahead.
We had this smart-ass intern many years ago (think he wanted to write the next great American novel). I was explaining the finer points of the Media100 workflow under an earlier OS (8 maybe, perhaps 7? Circa 1999) when I notice him quietly and intensely writing on pieces of paper on the client desk. Producer and I asked what he was up to. "Rendering," he said, and turned the pieces of paper around to reveal a series of binary (001010100101...) figures. He was producing them at an alarming rate, perhaps faster than the NuBus limitations could. Was he f*cking with us? Yes. Was he the smartest guy in the room? Yes.
 
I had this sweet idea once, you could store images on sheets of paper by just writing the hex color code of each pixel. Then you could keep your images for darn near forever, and re-digitize with freely available OCR software.

And then I realized just how much paper it would take to print millions and millions of characters. A second of 1080p would be over 7,000 sheets of 8.5x11. And cost about $100.
 
Andy Jarosz said:
I had this sweet idea once, you could store images on sheets of paper by just writing the hex color code of each pixel. Then you could keep your images for darn near forever, and re-digitize with freely available OCR software.

And then I realized just how much paper it would take to print millions and millions of characters. A second of 1080p would be over 7,000 sheets of 8.5x11.
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Did you really do that math? AWESOME! That really sums up so much of what we are all doing here.
 
Paper will be with us after Blue Ray, holographic disks and many after. It is not the paper, - it is the nature of electronic media - being abslolete in short period so you must move your content from media to media. So far I did this from diskete to CD, from CD to DVD and now I am doing this from DVD to BR. What I had on paper is stil there.
 
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Recycled paper trash bags/liners >>>

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Why the hate for paper? It's 100% recyclable and all paper contains some portion of recycled paper, even virgin paper. It's sustainable, and woe unto him that is in a bathroom without it.
 
Paul Lee said:
Warning: Anecdote ahead.
We had this smart-ass intern many years ago (think he wanted to write the next great American novel). I was explaining the finer points of the Media100 workflow under an earlier OS (8 maybe, perhaps 7? Circa 1999) when I notice him quietly and intensely writing on pieces of paper on the client desk. Producer and I asked what he was up to. "Rendering," he said, and turned the pieces of paper around to reveal a series of binary (001010100101...) figures. He was producing them at an alarming rate, perhaps faster than the NuBus limitations could. Was he f*cking with us? Yes. Was he the smartest guy in the room? Yes.
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And then that guy went on to invent Skynet, and the rest is James Cameron History
 
Andy Jarosz said:
I had this sweet idea once, you could store images on sheets of paper by just writing the hex color code of each pixel. Then you could keep your images for darn near forever, and re-digitize with freely available OCR software.

And then I realized just how much paper it would take to print millions and millions of characters. A second of 1080p would be over 7,000 sheets of 8.5x11. And cost about $100.
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I think you're on to something here, Andy. Just use cash register receipt paper or, even better: very thin metal coated Estar™ ribbon 2 - 3cm wide, and the writing with microscopic laser-etched marking, and the OCR with a 3200+ dpi scanner/reader and I think you have a viable archival medium. Hmmmm...

Rochester, are you listening? NO? (I thought not.) :(
 
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