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I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.

DeOldify - Automatically colorizing videos

Whew, what a year! I bought a computer in March with the intent of using it to do some video processing and film preservation work. Then … well, this year happened. Last night, I finally finished setting it up, and I now have a great video editing rig (well, aside from the slow hdd, but we’ll deal with that next week), and I’ve started playing with some automated post-processing. Today, I’d like to show you DeOldify.

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Old Computers and gizmos for sale

I’m selling some old computers and other gizmos. I bought a coffee shop, and this will help fund our first few weeks. This is a list of the things I still have available, along with a short description. I’ll keep this up to date as things sell, and will provide additional photos upon request.

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Reaching the World from Windows 3.1

I have an HP omnibook 300. It runs Windows 3.1 from ROM. It’s about the coolest computer that was ever made: Almost exactly the size of a notebook (8.5x11.2x1.5” or so), instant on, no moving parts, stiff but reasonably satisfying keyboard (rubber domes, but decent ones), a non-backlit, sunlight readable, reflective TFT LCD and it runs for weeks of daily use on 4 rechargable AA batteries. I could talk about the computer for a while, but I’d rather talk about how I have been using it and how I want to use it in the future. (Tools are, after all, only as interesting as what we use them for.)

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Public Domain Day 2020!

It’s January 1st, and for the second time in recent memory, it’s public domain day in the US. That means that dozens of works from 1924 have now entered the public domain. Let’s run through a few things that were released in 1924, and talk about what you can do with them now.

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