SOCIAL: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco FRIDAY Dec 19th

[Amandeep Jawa]

Adrian & I are big fans of this lecture series & I'm definitely going  
to this one (Adrian? Tom?).  Anyone else?  This sounds really good.
'deep
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Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected  
and makes it accessible. Prelinger will be presenting his third annual  
"Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, a montage of lost and rarely- 
seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San  
Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial  
filmmakers.
"Lost Landscapes of San Francisco," Rick Prelinger, Cowell Theater,  
Fort Mason, San Francisco, Theater doors open at 7pm, Friday, December  
19.  The talk starts promptly at 7:30pm.  Admission is free (a $10  
donation is always welcome, not required).
We encourage the audience to interact with the film, especially to  
identify mystery scenes! After the event will be a reception and  
holiday party at The Long Now Museum and Store. The Prelingers, Long  
Now's staff and board will be on hand, and we plan to continue to  
project footage from the Prelinger Archive on every surface we can.  
There will be some light snacks and wine served.

Talks coming up:

Jan. 16 (Friday) - Saul Griffith, "Climate Change Recalculated"
Feb. 13 (Friday) - Dmitri Orlov, "Social Collapse Best Practices"
Mar. 20 (Friday) - Daniel Everett, "Endangered Languages, Lost  
Knowledge and the Future"
May 5 (TUESDAY) - Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore's Dilemma & In  
Defense of Food
May 18 (MONDAY) - Paul Romer, "A Theory of History, with an Application"
Aug 25 (MONDAY) - Wayne Clough, the new Secretary of the Smithsonian  
Institute

NEWS: The Rosetta Disk is complete.  We have produced a browsable DVD  
version of the Disk and it is now available for purchase ($15, all  
proceeds go to the Rosetta Project).  This version may not last quite  
10,000 years, but it does allow you to easily browse the all 13,000  
pages of linguistic content without a microscope.  We will have copies  
available this Friday night, or you can order them in our online store.

High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits are available to  
Long Now members.  Membership, which costs $8/month ($96/year), helps  
support the series and other Long Now projects.  Joinable here.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking  
(SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation.  Free audios and my  
summaries of all previous talks are available for download here (or  
stay up to date with the Podcast here).  You'll find a range of long- 
term thinking items on our Blog (RSS).  If you would like to be  
notified by email of forthcoming talks, go here to sign up online.   
Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now--- 415-561-6582  
x1, danielle at longnow.org.

You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be  
interested.
-- 
Alexander Rose
The Long Now Foundation (executive director)

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