ADRIAN MENDIZABAL

✍️ 2024 @ArtsEquator Fellow | 📚 Volunteer archivist | 🧑‍🔬 Researcher @UPFIfilmcenter | Into 🛸 Sci-Fi Lit &📜 memory work

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Thesis defended!📷 Thank you to my thesis panel for their generous remark: pass with no revisions.

#Sablay2023 na next!

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Frontend done:

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installing DSpace at home past 12MN haha on a WSL-Ubuntu. pucha. lakas maka programmer.

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backend done. front end naman

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Dead of Night (1945) https://t.co/LRdIott7YJ

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CollectiveAccess Installation

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My project for UPFI Film Archives and Library this year is to look for the best database software that we can use for our AV Archives.

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Option 3. Atom

https://t.co/pdC8sFUych

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Na-hack ko finally digital preservation-on-a-budget modules! goodnight!

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wow may sariling text editor palang ang Mac. No need to instal Visual Studio Code [altho I might install]

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Tuwing nakakakita ako ng Thomas Elsaesser na articles sa Sight & Sound nung 1990s, sobrang natatawa ako kasi una ang haba (pay 8 pages!), pangalawa, academic, pangatlo, async sa whole issue (e.g. 7th seal pero ang topic ng issue ay 1994 film festival) #GOAT

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@missingcodec Palitan mo na ng METAL SHELVES. iwas anay.

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(3/3) It’s a durational form of advocacy that you cannot magically put into effect with a snap of a hand.

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(1/3) In an afternoon chat with old friends, a lawyer friend @_micahbird asked if calling ko na ba ang archiving job ko. Honestly, I don’t know what to say. But in 2022 after the Marcos-Du30 electoral win, I did commit to spend 10 years of my next life to memory work because…

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(2/3) I’m pissed. I hate historical distortions and fake news. So let’s see. I want it to be a calling, but it’s so damn hard. Very little reward along the way, since the processes are very long, tedious, and technical.

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16 tasks today. :)))) per task 1.5 hr min.

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potah hilong hilo na ako hahahahah

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Tulungan po natin mga taga Tondo, Parola.

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UPFI launches Cesar Hernando Collection preservation project https://t.co/pYTpuxKwoj

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Two days of watching Cave Accidents, from paranormal ones to horrific ones.