First thing on my desk when I step back in on January 3rd is to wrap up the final reporting to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). MetaArchive has been administering a Sustainable Preservation grant since 2008, whereby we have been formalizing the administrative apparatus between MetaArchive and Educopia as its non-profit host organization. We’ve also been engaging in strengthening MetaArchive’s trustworthy preservation capacity by delivering on recommendations from a 2009 TRAC self-audit and putting in place one component that many sites often shy away from–namely a Contingency Plan. We’ve worked closely with our membership and the Chronopolis team to test and develop the necessary transfer mechanisms between our two heterogeneous environments (we run LOCKSS, they run iRODS)–should the need ever arise. The project has met with great success across the board, and I’ll look forward to covering all of our progress and milestones in our final report.

Last quarter of 2011 we also kicked-off two new grant projects. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has provided Educopia and MetaArchive with the necessary funding for two years to study, with our project partners, the preservation needs of digital newspapers (both digitized and born-digital). This study, dubbed Chronicles in Preservation is primarily geared toward studying the state of digital newspapers that fall outside of the parameters for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), but is also inclusive of that well-prepared set of content. We are also working under a University of North Texas Libraries-administered grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study the lifecycle curation needs of electronic theses & dissertations (ETDs). In addition to general project management, I have a couple of key deliverables to knock out during the first couple of weeks of the New Year–namely the completion of a standards gap analysis for the NEH project, and a micro-services requirements overview for the IMLS project.

But the most exciting set of work that I’ll be picking up with in the first couple of weeks of 2012 is working with our individual members to review the health and status of their collections in our network. The Cooperative prides itself on being a collaborative endeavor, and a transparent one at that. The central staff worked very hard over the last quarter of 2011 to do a thorough review of the collections in our network, and report back out to our members. I’ll look forward to collaboratively auditing their collections with them to their expectations and our policies. We’ll also work closely through our Content Committee and our Preservation Committee to jointly finalize the edits to our core governance and policy documents that were reviewed at this year’s annual Steering Committee meeting held in conjunction with CNI.

And if those things are not enough to keep me busy on the front-end of the year, there are a few other interesting projects that I will be devoting attention to intermittently as time permits. The first of which is facilitating monthly-calls for the RESTful Bag Server group. You can read some of my previous posts on that set of development work here and here. But you would probably be just as well off visiting our github site here. Feel free to join the Digital Curation Group and look for call announcements and agendas. Another endeavor involves a National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)-driven effort to enlist the digital preservation community in developing a framework for applying standards like OAIS and auditing tools like the proposed ISO 16363 to the distributed digital preservation environment. The scope and overview of that proposed set of work can be linked to from the NDSA Standards Group wiki page here (you must be a member of NDSA or request permission). Finally, I had the privilege to become a trainee this past October under the Library of Congress-sponsored Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program. This program gave me the skills and resources needed to go out into my region and engage cultural heritage institutions and research centers of all shapes and sizes, providing them with some of the fundamentals of digital preservation as a means of standardizing concepts and practices. I’ll be putting out feelers both locally and more broadly within my region first-thing in January; will aim to hold a workshop of some scale come early spring.

Well, that should keep me busy into the first part of the year. I’m looking forward to working with all others involved. Happy New Year everybody!

Much was also made of Rooney Mara’s delivery on the character of Lisbeth Salander, the infamous rape scene (done in true Fincher shock-fashion), and the film’s production – shot almost entirely on-location in the chill of Sweden. The week before release I relished the Charlie Rose interview with the entire cast. If you haven’t seen it, check it out below. They discuss the experience of playing the characters, adapting from the book, and surviving Fincher’s 100s of takes. Really great interview.

Throw in a great Tumblr site – Mouth Taped Shut - that was full of behind-the-scenes goodness, and a promo Hard-X DJ pre-party, and you have got the makings of a much-hyped transmedia phenomenon.

But those were only some of the reasons why yours-truly was in the theater first thing before the holiday weekend to devour Fincher’s take on this franchise. The truth is, as a student of 20th century European history and memory, I cannot get enough of the Millenium characters and the allegorical way in which Larsson took on so many relevant subjects worthy of critical, artistic rendition: the treatment of women and racial minorities in ultra-conservative, white, male-driven societies; the Marxist critique of the generational dynamics of wealth and their negative influences on the broader society; not to mention the very contemporary issue regarding the permissible boundaries of subversive action and dissent in the face of widespread and insurmountable financial and political corruption and unconstrained power.

Through the vehicles of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson was able to enamor and awaken readers from all over the world to some very entrenched and disturbing problems within Swedish society. Not the least of which was the premise that Sweden’s complicity with the atrocities of the Nazi-past were in no way merely about passive neutrality politics and the pressures of wartime. By Larsson’s standards, Swedish society is still to this day rife with a silent sympathy for the traditional, ultra-conservative, nationalist values that swept fascism into vogue across Europe in the 1930s-1940s. And those mentalities run deeper than politics. They are symptomatic of a hyper-male urge toward self-empowerment and self-perpetuation within the milieu of a Volk. In the aftermath of World War II, these demonized and repudiated urges were forced underneath the public discourse and driven down into the private sphere of home and family. Where they festered and turned in on themselves with destructive force. There is much here for the conscientious student of a Europe still wrestling with the ghosts of its pasts. Larsson provides his readers with a cautionary frame of sorts with which to hang a mirror up to their own societies.

Indeed, Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, strikes me as a brilliant allegory to expose this bitter truth about such insidious undercurrents, and the dangers of not confronting them head on. And Fincher was just the right director for such an allegory. Allegories have the challenge of finely-concealing their real message beneath layers of rich landscape facades and character symbolism. Much as Larsson buried the real moral of his story deep within a somewhat formulaic Swedish crime thriller, Fincher sucks you into the symptomatic horror of rape, incest, and sadistic murder through icy film tones (his films always have a distinctive color pallette), and moody organic synth music. We’re not meant to analyze but to feel the awfulness as we’re pulled through it sequence-by-sequence, and only later to string together the well-placed character dialogue and narration that can instruct us.

It wasn’t until my second sitting for TGWTDT (pulled back to the theater by the awesome visuals and score) that I caught some of screenwriter Steven Zaillian’s well-placed exchanges between the characters. Such as when Henrik (played by Christopher Plummer) is filling in Daniel Craig’s Blomkvist about the Vanger family line and wryly chuckles about his brother Richard joining the National Socialist Freedom League and how “Isn’t it fascinating that fascists always ride in on that word freedom?” Later, Zaillian has Blomkvist courageously questioning Harald, the resident anti-Semite. As Blomkvist rummages through Harald’s photo collection, which happens to be full of blatant Nazi complicity, he comments on Harald’s audacity to hold on to such material over the years–urging guilt. Harald scoffs it off and proudly replies “I’m the most honest one of them all.” Blomkvist returns to clarify, “…of the family?” to which Harald replies, “…of Sweden.”   Finally, towards the end of the film while Martin has Blomkvist strung up in his torture chamber, he gloats about the girl he had caged up in the dungeon while they enjoyed dinner upstairs during one of the earlier scenes. Blomkvist has the empathy to ask of her name, and Martin, annoyed, mutters that she was nothing more than “just another immigrant whore.”

Fincher is one of the great rebel filmmakers of our time. I would not be at all surprised if he had the audacity to intentionally subvert the film’s potential to be a widespread hit right out of the gates. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, with all of its dark and disturbing elements, was strangely timed to open the week of Christmas. Not surprisingly, attendance was underwhelming. In a country that would prefer to dumb itself down with popcorn hits like Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol, and mask its own complex subconscious loathing toward family by huddling down into holiday nostalgia, why should we be surprised? Is Fincher holding the mirror up in challenge to our own society, daring us to take the time out to allow our inner psyches to be made a little uncomfortable with timely truths about (perhaps all-too familiar) undercurrents?

Fincher’s remake is indeed an uncomfortable film. But it is also an artful piece of relevant and critical work. The best films always are.

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Dear Senator Levin,

I am shocked and abhorred at your decision to craft and champion the detainee provisions to the Defense Authorization Act. As one of your enthusiastic constituents I view your decision to be a betrayal of my democratic values which hold in high esteem our practice of due process, separation of powers, and distrust of Executive authority.

How you could be so naive to think that these provisions could withstand abuse by the Executive branch is beyond me. We have plenty of precedents in this country – the internment of Japanese-American citizens being one well-repudiated example.

Perhaps you have been in office far too long, and like so many others, slowly but surely become dulled to the fundamental needs, wishes, rights, and good-natures of your constituency. As for me, I am braver than you sir, and believe that we can defeat the threat of terrorism on our soil through constructive dialogue and community engagement rather than military force and the stripping of legal protections.

Barring a public reversal of your position on this legislation I hereby withdraw my support for you. Not that I anticipate that mattering to you at this late stage in your career. As one of the younger generation, you have my thanks for diminishing my freedoms and those of my children.

Unsigned

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Mr. President,

I am writing as a Michigan voter and first-term supporter.

I want to express my support for the Administration’s Statement of Policy (dated Nov. 17th, 2011) on the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012.

Consistent with the Administration’s opposition, I would urge the President to veto the Act due to the detainee provisions – particularly those outlined in Section 1032 regarding Executive authority to indefinitely detain American citizens without due process of law.

I have already written my Senator (D-Carl Levin) to express my disgust and disappointment in his decision to craft and pioneer these provisions behind closed doors. He will no longer be receiving my vote.

This Act is a vote-breaker for me. Please do what is right. Continue to uphold our system of checks and balances and rule of law, and you will have my vote.

Respectfully,

Having received my undergraduate degree in history, with a focus on post-World War II memory and trauma in the German context, I’ve decided to use some of my free time to immerse myself once again in some of the relevant literature and media. I don’t get much time these days to keep up, but I can’t bear to let go of the subject matter. One of my growing contentions is that the era of postwar recovery still has so much to teach us about our own period of failed national ambitions, the breakdown of international order, resurgent dictatorships, social upheaval, and the quest for appropriate reconciliations and identities.

As a student of this history, part of what I would like to lend my energies to going forward is a series of responses and reflections that can not only enrich my understanding and capacity to accurately convey the vital messages, but just generally serve to keep the topic afloat through whatever mediums I’m capable wielding to good effect – this blog being one of them.

In addition to some scholarly works, namely Richard J. Evans’s The Third Reich at War, Ian Kershaw’s The End, Ben Shephard’s The Long Road Home, I’m also dipping into fiction such as Sebald’s Austerlitz, some of the works of Austrian novelist, poet, and playwright Thomas Bernhard, as well as investigative works such as Anna Funder’s Stasiland. Films and documentaries have also been scratching an itch in this area – The Reader, Worse than War, and somewhat tangentially Larsson’s TGWDT Trilogy (with its excavations of neo-fascism and male brutality in contemporary Sweden).

So, stay tuned for interjecting posts that will likely serve as reviews and critiques of these and various other works. My hope is that in the act of organizing my thoughts and reactions to what I’m absorbing through these blog posts, I can start to rebuild my frameworks for transmitting elements from this past that catalyzed my conscience not so long ago.

Perhaps some of this material can catalyze yours as well.

In the midst of uprisings like what we have seen with the Occupy Wall Street Movement, what causes an officer to beat a peaceful protester exercising their civil liberties and their right of assembly? What impulses cause an officer to openly humiliate and denigrate members of the public with slurs? Why doesn’t professionalism and integrity prevail in so many circumstances?

Why are we often left calling “Shame! The whole world is watching!”?

There is undoubtedly a worthy set of theses to be unearthed here that cut across multiple disciplines. We need to get past ancillary case studies and begin a broad critical analysis that pulls most heavily on sociology, psychology, and anthropology. My feeling is that it should really be handled by historians and/or journalists – they have a command of documentary source material that would serve this topic well. And they possess the narrative and writing skills to bring it down to the human element.

Just in the U.S. alone, historians could certainly help to shine a light on the trajectory of the hyper-militarization of our urban police forces – the outfitting for riot prevention and crowd control; surveillance and infiltration. The conflagrations of the 1960s in Watts and Detroit certainly must have played a tectonic role. City administrations likely learned a great deal about the causes and the costs of social disruptions on a street level, and how to tactically quell them. Is this a place to start?

Investigative journalists and scholars the likes of Naomi Klein or Jeremy Scahill could do a knock up job of mapping for us the corporations that have fueled and refined a market for mass-produced barricades, plastic handcuffs, and the “Made in the U.S.A.” tear gas cannisters that have been found on the streets of cities in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

To be fair, there are plenty of articles afloat and in circulation about these topics. What we need are some thick peer-reviewed monographs. Mass market, university press, or independent publisher – all of the above. Publications that pull together and make sense of the existing research that has been documented, and doing so in an unbiased yet exposing fashion.

Social, political, and economic inequalities are increasingly dividing societies. In an era of massive displacement and disenfranchisement of citizens, populations are being confronted with themselves on the streets. Differences are merely a uniform and a command away. Beyond that is merely a “you” and a “me.” What is it about these slight distinctions that can lead to such a dramatic rift in the thread of respect and common decency? What causes a man to set himself on fire after one too many harassments by men in uniform?

It’s important I think to hold the mirror up to the processes that cause such estrangements if we have hope of creating more humane and democratic futures.

I was thankful to finally get a first-hand peek. Part of the reason that the Occupy movement is becoming so maligned in the media, and by extension large parts of the public, is because criticism and misunderstanding come so frequently from a distance. The proximity of the gathering to our visit raised the issue of the legitimacy of the movement in conversation with my colleagues. And I’ll confess, all of my own premature criticisms that had been formed at a remove gushed forth at various intervals during those conversations.

For my part I’m grateful to see the right of assembly being exercised, and frankly abhorred at the incidents of police brutality and orchestrated opposition that certainly seems targeted to strip the protesters of this fundamental right (albeit by a handful of easily-pressured bad apples and authority figures). On the other hand, I’m a little disappointed in the lack of coordination at this point to begin articulating criticisms through more conventional mechanisms that actually have potential to affect political and economic policy reform – petitions, advocacy groups, meetings with representatives, etc., etc. To be fair, some of this is going on, but not in any orchestrated or unified fashion.

I heard similar admirations and disillusionments from all my colleagues in the midst of those conversations. And suffice it to say, over the course of those helpful conversations, and after having an opportunity to peek in on an actual gathering, I came to grasp exactly why it was that I had not yet marshaled significant enthusiasm to vocally support the movement or turn out in any fashion.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m feeling as disfranchised as the next guy in terms of the political system being rigged toward the “one-percent.” But I think there is a certain amount of misplaced blame here that overlooks a fundamental entanglement and complicity at all levels of our American class structure. Large segments of our eligible voting society (self-included) checked out on their political responsibilities to hold politicians in check during the past two decades when corporations and financial institutions consolidated their hold over our country’s legal and regulatory frameworks. We were too busy consuming and believing in the magic of progress.

My feeling is that the Occupy movement desperately needs to coalesce beyond the public shows of angst and frustration. And to the degree that it is not about that, and that protesters are in fact turning out to revel in the renaissance of solidarity for free expression, I think it is still frankly time to get over it. There are no shortage of social symptoms of inequality that stem from the systemic corruption at the nexus of government and corporate and financial lobbies. That makes it very easy to agree that we are all in the same boat, despite our personal agendas for change.

The Occupy protests have been creative, they have been vital to mobilizing public passion and motivation to act practically on behalf of justice and civil rights, but they run the risk of missing the opportunity to become a constructive machinery if their default remains entrenchment for the mere sake of principle and grievance. Much like the early student movements of the 1960s, the protesters of the Occupy movement need to show not only a commitment to patient struggle, but an intellectual agility that can begin to routinely articulate arguments and visions for alternative solutions that have some bridges forward that are rooted in our reality in the here and now.

Oddly, of all the weird celebrities that have turned out to cheer-lead the Occupiers, I suppose I find myself most partial to Alec Baldwin’s calm and collected view here (but mind you not all of his views more generally):

We don’t need a sudden upheaval to the current financial system or political order (regardless of how broken it is that will only cause more problems). We do need a return to a culture of regulation and we need a sea-change in the average person’s commitment to understanding the way our political and economic system works – so that we can more routinely hold our representatives, government, corporations and banking institutions accountable. If the sharpness and determination demonstrated by this young guy with the mic/recorder can be nurtured and encouraged over the long-haul (albeit in a less ideological fashion) by the Occupy movement – I’m all for it. It will be a great base and platform for change.

If it remains an inarticulate mass of directionless potentialities I think it will continue to garner apprehension.

Readers should take any of my posts as highly personal in origin, and not necessarily trying to draw some scholarly conclusion. Posts are meant to stimulate thought and not necessarily provoke a conflagration. But neither of these intentions are bound to be well observed or respected in the blogosphere…so whatever. If nothing else, have a laugh at my expense. And by all means drop a respectful comment to the contrary to whatever I happen to be going off about. I’m open to different perspectives, given the right and well-argued facts.

Which is fine entre into sharing my two cents on the latest diplomatic fiasco with Iran, and all of its attendant “facts” – or lack thereof. Of course I am talking about the indictment against Mansour Arbabsiar who is accused of contracting with a Mexican drug cartel, on behalf of the Iranian elite Quds Force, to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. – Adel al-Jubair. Speculation is beginning to mount about the veracity of the facts surrounding this conspiracy (understandably, given past abuses of false accusations of international conspiracy – Iraq anybody?).

The Guardian had this to say earlier today about the potential that this may actually be an incident of counter-terrorism entrapment:

“The point person for the drug cartel was a confidential informant working with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). As a result, there has been some speculation already about whether or not this is a case of entrapment. Did the federal agent conduct much or all of the plot? Or did it actually originate with the accused? The complaint asserts that Arbabsiar wanted to participate in the assassination plot even before his encounter with the DEA agent. But the rest of the case and the plot – the who, what, when, where and how of the proposed crime – are disconcertingly unclear.”

The New York Times ran an article this afternoon as well, quoting President Obama and the State Department respectively:

President Obama said: “Now those facts are there for all to see…We would not be bringing forward a case unless we knew exactly how to support all the allegations that are contained in the indictment.”

State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland went on to stress: “But as you begin to give more detail on what we knew and when we knew it and how we knew it, it has credibility. And that credibility is coming through in the briefings. And frankly, Iran is a country with quite a long track record of not only terrorist activity, but bizarre efforts.”

Given that the U.S. is really only laying out the facts to its key U.S. allies and those it would like to move off the fence in regard to Iran sanctions (China and Russia in particular), one cannot help but feel a certain amount of déjà vu to the days of Colin Powell and the “smoking gun” against Iraq and its WMD. Given the charade that that whole dog-and-pony show ultimately revealed itself to be, not to mention the piss poor job that the media did in digging beneath the veneer of the White House mouthpiece – I think the American public should be very concerned about these so-called “facts”.

In making the media rounds online this evening, the general public has yet to be made quite privy to the various official reactions from Russia, China, Europe, and India. But if this Reuter’s report is any indication of initial council impressions, it’s not impossible despite the headline that this entire incident will gradually fade on a diplomatic level with the passing days. And if this is nothing more than a trumped-up, politically-motivated criminal investigation, than the White House and Justice Department has just opened up a strange can of worms with this indictment. It has the capacity to take on a life of its own.

As Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn spouted today on The Independent:

“The problem is that the US government has very publicly committed itself to a version of events, however unlikely, that, if true, would be a case for war against Iran. It will be difficult for the US to back away from such allegations now.”

I don’t know about a war, but they have certainly signed up for some aggressive political and court theater that may be hard to live down. Let’s see what sort of a further mess our un-investigative, one-sided media can make out of this one.

I recently purchased a Canon EOS Rebel T2i. Photography has been a growing enthusiasm for me, and I am thrilled to finally have a camera that can capture the scenes that move me and remind me that we live in a remarkable world of both natural and created beauty. In between my textual entries I’ll be adding shots that I’m pleased with.

In the meantime, feel free to peruse my flickr Photostream at your leisure.

The group has made a great deal of progress toward defining a specification that can facilitate a series of REST-based client-server exchanges centering on the creation, retrieval, and tracking of BagIt defined data for the purposes of replication. Several use cases have been brought forward by various groups that encompass both inter- and intra- repository replication.

Some of the items that have surfaced on our Google Group discussion thread over the past month and that I’ll hope to understand a little better on our call tomorrow include:

1. Coming to a final determination on the flexibility with which a manifest can be updated prior to an upload, and putting in place a hard requirement that at least one supported manifest must be included and must match before it can be committed and validated.
2. Progress toward merging the proposed “version/latest” resource with the main branch, and if there are any lingering server side issues there?
3. How to communicate “/changes” (either whole new bags, or modifications to contents of previously available bags) to clients at the level of the proposed feed; whether to make the changes more explicit or encourage the retrieval and comparison of the metadata before re-fetching?
4. Related to this I think is a discussion involving whether to establish a URI for validation history, how much detail to keep, and for how long?
5. Should hrefs be generated as relative links to reduce transfer sizes on things like requests for manifests, or can the server apply compression (Content-Encoding: gzip)?
6. What is the best way to communicate good HTTP citizenship at both the client and server side around issues of error handling? Use of the Options method?
7. Should the spec account for an additional sidecar resource for additional metadata that might be extraneous (i.e., optional) to a set of data targeted for replication?
8. To what degree can a server fall back on caching when called upon to merge all manifests for a bag that contains a large number of files or manifests?

There are bound to be several other items to catch up, better ways of framing the questions, and some of these may very well be settled already in the minds of the principal developers on the call. Coming more so from the curatorial side of things it has been a real pleasure for me to sit in on these calls and try to augur through the tech speak. Consider this post a feeble attempt to get my mind into their developer head space.

I learn tons on and between every call!

So pardon while I take a moment this afternoon, whilst nursing a sinus headache and staving off an uptick in my allergies, to (re-)introduce one of my creative projects: The Archivist.

The Archivist started as a traditional pen & ink comic book production shortly after exiting my graduate program in the Fall of 2009. The main character was a young, practicing archivist named October with a penchant for diplomatics, who unwittingly gets ensnared in a Scooby Doo-esque paranormal adventure. Very quirky and outlandish, the storyline pulled heavily on popular underground paranormal culture and some of the speculative in-roads that that culture is making into quantum and astro physics. It was a lot of fun to plot and begin illustrating. But alas it was also doggedly slow to produce.

I started a free WordPress blog for it and documented the early production phase, but soon grew disappointed and frustrated with how long it was taking.

However, because my creative strengths had always been on the illustration side of things, you can imagine my surprise at how much more fun I actually had writing the story. This surprising discovery came right about the time that I was reading one of my favorite postwar German authors, W.G. Sebald. The book was Austerlitz, and if you’ve ever read it (or any of Sebald’s works) you’ll know that it does a masterful job of marrying character self-reflection with carefully embedded visual tokens and artifacts. Its a very meandering and contemplative work that is layered with moral reckoning at a distance from the past.

Parallel to this I was also re-reading William Gibson‘s Spook Country in anticipation of its sequel Zero History. Gibson’s latest books contain characters that are narrated as very alienated and divorced in many respects from the demanding circumstances of the present political moment and the heavily material culture of artifacts in which they (and we) swim. Caught up in them to no end, but strangely ambivalent, clamoring for their own peace of minds in circumstances largely out of their control. Taken for a ride. What I love about his latest books is that I can literally devour a chapter in the space of five minutes. Very wed to attention span.

Sebald and Gibson’s books had a profoundly inspiring tone to them at a moment when I was giving much thought to exploring my own ability to write fiction. The result was a shift in storyline and approach to story-telling. The Archivist is now a serialized story that I am pitching as a sci-fi paranormal blog novel delivered via Tumblr. And the idea is that each post will carry the story forward through the use of discreet episodic narratives that are highly cerebral in nature. The result I hope is something moody, melancholic, and haunting – particularly given its themes of memory, trauma, and the redefinition of what it means to be human in our technologized moment. Each post contains a Creative Commons-licensed photo or image from Flickr to help anchor and backdrop the substance of the text.

It has been slow to produce in its own right but the medium gets out of the way in so many respects. I’ve got no monetary designs on it. It’s just a lot of fun to escape to and slowly but surely it gives me little opportunities to unpack my observations on our cultural preoccupations with the strange and unusual – how we use and abuse both science and spirituality to orient ourselves and supply meaning in the face of life’s uncertainties.

Check it out here: The Archivist (scroll to the bottom)