<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'm definitely going as well.</div><div><br></div><div>adrian</div><br><div><div>On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div>Adrian & I are big fans of this lecture series & I'm definitely going to this one (Adrian? Tom?). Anyone else? This sounds really good.</div><div>'deep</div><div>--</div><div>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.</div> <blockquote><b>"<font color="#000000">Lost Landscapes of San Francisco</font>," Rick Prelinger</b>,<b> Cowell Theater, Fort Mason</b>, San Francisco,<b> Theater doors open at 7pm, Friday, December 19. </b><font color="#000000"> The talk starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is<b> free</b> (a $10 donation is always welcome, not required).</font></blockquote> <div>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.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><font color="#000000">Talks coming up:</font></div> <br> <div><b>Jan. 16</b> (Friday) -<b> Saul Griffith</b>, "Climate Change Recalculated"</div> <div><b>Feb. 13</b> (Friday) -<b> Dmitri Orlov</b>, "Social Collapse Best Practices"</div> <div><b>Mar. 20</b> (Friday) -<b> Daniel Everett</b>, "<font color="#000000">Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future</font>"<br> <b>May 5</b> (TUESDAY) -<b> Michael Pollan</b>, author of <u>Omnivore's Dilemma</u> & <u>In Defense of Food</u><br> </div> <div><b>May 18</b> (MONDAY) -<b> Paul Romer</b>, "<font color="#000000">A Theory of History, with an Application</font>"<br> <b>Aug 25</b> (MONDAY) -<b> Wayne Clough</b>, the new Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><b>NEWS: The Rosetta Disk is complete. We have produced a <a href="http://www.longnow.org/shop/longnow-merch/">browsable DVD version of the Disk</a> and it is now available for purchase ($15, all proceeds go to the Rosetta Project). </b> 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.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>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 <a href="https://secure.longnow.org/members/">here</a>.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><font color="#000000">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</font> <a href="http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/"><font color="#000000">here</font></a><font color="#000000"> (or stay up to date with the Podcast</font> <a href="http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/podcast.php"><font color="#000000">here</font></a><font color="#000000">). You'll find a range of long-term thinking items on our</font> <a href="http://blog.longnow.org/"><font color="#000000">Blog</font></a><font color="#000000"> (</font><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnowblog"><font color="#000000">RSS</font></a><font color="#000000">). If you would like to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, go</font> <a href="http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT"><font color="#000000">here</font></a><font color="#000000"> to sign up online.</font> Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, <a href="mailto:danielle@longnow.org">danielle@longnow.org</a>.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><font color="#000000">You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested.</font></div> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Alexander Rose
The Long Now Foundation (executive director)
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