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Folkstreams, an archive, streaming
service and online community for documentary films
about American vernacular culture (folk life), www.folkstreams.net
is both a respectable place to work and a labor of
love. I developed the platform for the film catalog
and community features of the site and am continuing
to add new features. I work with a team of great
people who digitize the films, create the streams,
maintain the streaming server and a million other
things that make the site work. I am a member of the
Folkstreams Advisory Committee.
Here is a photo of me watching Born For Hard Luck on my 24 inch television. The video is being streamed over the internet from a Real server at the University of North Carolina hosted by ibiblio.org to my PC in Arlington, Virginia. An S-Video cable connects the computer's video card to my television.
Hard at work on Folkstreams circa 2004 with Born For Hard Luck film page on the LCD monitor. I administrate the database and make the programs that retrieve data from the database to generate web pages using predefined templates on demand. I try to make the markup as clean as possible, but we inherited a lot of code from Front Page and I have to focus on the programming. This was made shortly before the American Film Institute Silver Theater screening of Music District and launch party for Folkstreams, which I was present along with Max Gustafson our compressionist before he moved on to New Youlk City!
Both photos are self-portraits with the Olympus D340R, not the greatest camera in the world. No match for my twenty year old Fuji SLR.
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