Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

An absolute legend! 🥹 May this inspire and uplift future UCLA TFT-ers.

Japanese things I have randomly learned #2: the Japanese counter for films, video tapes, cassette tapes, etc is 本 which is the counter used for long, cylindrical things.

Japanese things I have randomly learned #1: The Japanese title for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is 明日に向って撃て (Ashita ni Mukatte Ute) which means 'Shoot for Tomorrow', which is such a fun and suitable translation (and, thankfully, not a transliteration of Butch Cassidy and...)

Me every time I switch app windows and catch sight of the new Microsoft 365 icons against my will.

Do you enjoy inconvenience, ink on your fingers and a mild unspoken sense of superiority? Try fountain pens.

Sometimes academia

Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney is a kind of fever dream and everything is out there but hang on… was this a casual Cantonese joke??

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Yes, it’s back!!! (It had better be good after all this)

The Studio is a TV show about movies made by movie nerds. Episode 2 is about oners and is shot as a glorious and stressful oner with screwball comedic timing. Beaut. #TheStudio #Appletv+

Thanks #BAFTSS2025 it’s been fun - loads of great panels, fascinating research, lovely people. Very much enjoyed the panel group i was in this morning, chaired by @mattbruce007.bsky.social

John Turturro appreciation post.

The UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program recently supported the digitization of the Albanian Photographic and Graphic Art Collection, containing over 18k materials from the Albanian National Film Archive. See the collection: bit.ly/ucla-aqshf

An incredible sequence to start off season 2 of #Severance

Are you joining us for the public opening of our new exhibition, "Echoes: China & Hong Kong. Voicing the collection 迴音：中港迴響書藏之聲”? Echoes re-examines the Portico Library's collection, centering voices of Manchester's Hong Kong and Chinese diaspora. 📅 Fri 24th Jan, 6PM - 7PM 🎟 Free: bit.ly/4h1QK9y

The Traitors finale is so big that the BBC Ten O’Clock News is at 10.25pm on Friday. The finale episode starts at 8.30pm, directly followed by Uncloaked on the same channel.

Whenever I am asked what my favourite movie is, I never have an answer. But recent devastating events have made me think of Chinatown and it might be a strong contender for my #1. Watch it. It is a damn near perfect script. And it is about water.

(No real spoilers) An interesting thing that has come out of #Squidgame2 is the ear worm that is the Mingle game song - as referenced to the show - or rather, 둥글게둥글게 (dunggulgae dunggulgae), a traditional Korean children’s song that has gained an unexpected new group of English-speaking fans.

Interesting to note international producing partners of Better Man: Sina Studios (China), Facing East (described as 'Asian, European and US-based') and Film Australia and Vicscreen (director Michael Gracey is Australian) - for a biopic about beloved UK icon Robbie Williams. #Transnational, anyone?

Insight into my life. (credit: @asherperlman.bsky.social )

To anyone who needs to hear it: you don’t have to apologise for cross-posting.

Oh lookie my wife directed this show www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rp...

Yes this is to be my first post.