SCAN LOG

Poweredge January 1989

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Poweredge November 1988

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scanning

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made a severance mode for corner crop adjustments

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sick Natas Kaupas spread in Poweredge May 1988

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Poweredge January 1988

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Rad @jgrantbrittain.bsky.social interview in June 1991 Poweredge

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First magazine processed. Poweredge June 1991 Here's a contact sheet

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the scan processor is a program that takes a collection of scanned images, and allows for cropping, image correction, deskewing, and collating. To double check the automated cropping, I have a web ui that allows me to quickly modify the bounding polygon that was found.

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Setting up a livestreaming studio to scan the complete Transworld Skateboarding over the next few months.

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This year I've committed to work on a project called @skateboard.fyi My goal is to create a research platform, an annotated database of skateboard magazines and printed media. When I started the project last year, I couldn't find many magazines online. Thrasher magazine has a collection up to the year 2000, and many others are piecemeal and incomplete. So, I needed to connect with collectors and other enthusiasts. I hit up @lookbacklibrary wondering if anyone was working on digitizing mags. No one really was. I gathered a book scanner inspired by the @internetarchive , quit my job, and went to SoCal to start the digitization process. We started with Poweredge, a magazine issued out of San Diego with a run from 1988 to 1991. It came back in 2009 but disappeared within a few years. I'm working on processing these scans and figuring out the upload. Now I'm setting up a proper scanning studio to livestream the process. I'll be doing about an hour a day of scanning until I work through all of Transworld, hopefully starting next week. It'll be a scan skate mags, lofi, and chill situation.

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listening to some public domain Muddy Waters this morning archive.org/details/wate...

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there's some good names in skateboarding.. came upon Gerd Rieger in POWEREDGE April 1990

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working on a scan processor for all the skate mags. I'm using local Apple VNDetectDocumentSegmentationRequest API to detect the corners. Then, I can use arrow keys to adjust corners. I get a little preview of the final crop, as well as a fine tune corner view for pixel level adjustments

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scanning some old POWEREDGE mags

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starting the new year off with a working diybookscanner. The frame was borrowed from Noisebridge in San Francisco. Stoked #diybookscanner #skateboarding

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gathering wires and packing up to head down south ~~~ hoping/planning/pushing to digitize some skate mags in the new year!

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skate goals before I'm 40: 1. Switch flips 2. Ollie Wallenberg

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Currently working on building an Archivist style diy book scanner. In my research, I realized that Noisebridge in SF has one from the before times. Here's a picture I took last night ~~ it's in a hallway, covered in dust. Ready to be revived

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got rid of DO and switched skateboard.fyi hosting to Hertzner

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borzoi dog spirits met on a rainy sf day

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Skaters With A Cause - Thrasher October 1984 "Four skaters take to the road on a cross country skate trek to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society and, as Bob Denike reports, to find out a little more about America and themselves."

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skateboarding is old enough that there are archeological digs to uncover skateparks!

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one of the goals of skateboard.fyi is to make a graph of connections similar to how wikigrapher works wikigrapher.com/pages?title=...

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first commits towards open-sourcing some components I worked on for skateboard.fyi. First up is the ImageZoomer ~~ a minimal approach to image zooming. I wanted something that was non-intrusive, and didn't require clicking, pinching, or fiddling too much. bigredwill.github.io/image-zoomer/

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Deep linking to a page with query param Ron Allen for H Street Thrasher Magazine - September 1989 skateboard.fyi/magazines/th...

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Thrasher covers on skateboard.fyi The site is a work in progress, if you'd like to contribute to the annotation work, let me know. #skateboarding #archivist

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today's listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Hh...

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today I am attempting to go to production

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Ah, another day. Working on the visual annotation system ~~ you can tag the skater/photographer/brand/location now

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prototyping a different kind of image zooming ~~ uses javascript to calculate positioning, then CSS and a background image to present a zoomed overlay

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working on image zoom and annotations today Jim Thiebaud from Thrasher September 1989 #skateboarding #code

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data migrations with stats - storing json gzipped in s3 rather than in a sqlite db

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GZIP TIME

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Today's coding music www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Yg...

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Natas Kaupas in a Thunder Trucks ad from Thrasher Magazine August 1988 #skateboarding #archival

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And skate mags!

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survival calls for brotherhood, integrated skating has and must emerge - Thrasher Magazine, December 1982

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Hockey ad from June 2017 Thrasher ~~ their new video just dropped, heavy stuff

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there's enough data in the sk8fyi db that my index page query was slow. Refactoring time!

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zooming around -> Scott Foss from Thrasher Magazine's first issue, January 1981

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Image Zoomingggg

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jamming to this TempleRat set and getting Image Zoom working www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yD...

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Building the Archive Infrastructure

Migrating from Next.js/PayloadCMS to a simpler stack: Astro for static generation, Python API for search, S3 for media storage. Inspired by the Internet Archive's approach of flat storage, metadata on top and a thin web layer.

First Batch: PowerEdge Magazine

Starting the archive with PowerEdge magazine. DIY book scanner is calibrated and processing pipeline is working. Each issue gets scanned at 300 DPI, pages extracted and deskewed, then OCR'd for full-text search.