“Both magnetic and optical storage formats—videotape, digital discs, and drives—decay much faster than commercial film stock. Despite living in the cloud, there is no heaven for digital data. And in fifty years, even if our CDs, DVDs, flash drives, and YouTube accounts retain their contents, which is unlikely, there will be no devices or software with which to read them. Skip even one generation of technological change and the precious photos, videos, or letters on the floppy disks in the closet become inaccessible or illegible.” Video TapeCellulose DiacetateComputer Hard DrivesDigital DiscsFamily MoviesImage StorageMagnetic TapeOptical StoragePhotographs And Memories Book:Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Source: Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
“Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it.” FeelsHeartVibrations Book:Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music Source: Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music
“Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters — what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability — is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.” MatterAbilityPracticeOur LivesConditionsDependsBoundariesLimitationWhat Matters Book:Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music Source: Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music
“Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.” IfsGivingDreamArtistLossChildhoodSeriousBecomingGiving UpDoctorsAthleteWhat IfEngineersNaggingChildhood Dreams Author:Glenn Kurtz