Dan Rosen

@danrosen

Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz

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Dan Rosen@danrosen· 17d

The Third Man (1949) in 35 mm at Film Forum was great. A world weary movie - tired of WW2 and the new Cold War. Such a dense movie

A still from Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949). Harry Lyme away from the camera, runs arms outstretched through a sewer in Vienna

Dan Rosen@danrosen· 20d

"I got on her like a car load of bricks"

Dan Rosen@danrosen· 20d

Ladd and Lake have incredible chemistry yes but what about Ladd and Bendix?

A frame from The Glass Key: William Bendix calls over to Alan Ladd, who just walked in the bar. He says "Well if it ain't sock me again Beaumont"

A frame from The Glass Key: William Bendix grabs Alan Ladd by the arm and says "Excuse us, gents. We got to go up and play handball."

A frame from the Glass Key with Alan Ladd and William Bendix at a table drinking. Alan Ladd: No you're not drunk.
William Bendix: I am drunk

Dan Rosen@danrosen· 20d

Rewatched The Glass Key last night. Def one of my favorite noir films

Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd in The Glass Key stare at each other

Veronica Lake in The Glass Key stares up at Alan Ladd offscreen,

William Bendix and Alan Ladd in The Glass Key

Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, and Brian Donlevy in The Glass Key

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jul 1

And an actual handset at the Smithsonian Museum of American History americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

A picture of a 1992 AT&& Video Phone 2500, with traditional phone corded handset and receiver, with a swiveling camera and small video screen

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jul 1

i wonder if you could've used the modem tones to do all sorts of interesting remote hacks of all 16 people who probably owned this phone

Some highlighted excerpts from the owner's manual: Brief Silence During a Regular Call «= |f your videophoneis used near a FAX machine,at times you may not be able to hear or be heard on a regularcall. The modem tones from a FAX machine mayfalsely trigger the VideoPhone modem, creating a brief period of silence (see “VideoPhone Location” on page 9).

Poor Video Image Quality If the display is too dark and the VideoPhonehas beenin a cold area,it may require approximately 30 minutes to become warm enough to work well.

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jul 1

Doing a bit of research on video calls and found this 1992 AT&T video phone manual, including good advice about call backgrounds and lighting. Even had a shutter

the front cover the owner's manual for the 1992 AT&T video phone 2500

An excerpt from the AT&T video phone owner's manual: Background:Forbestresults, position the VideoPhone(or swivel the video module) so that a blank,lightcolored wall is behind you as you speak. Avoid brightly painted walls and bold wallpaper patterns that could be distracting. Never place the phonesothat reflective surfaces (such as a mirror or window) are behind you.

Lighting: Choose a room withbright, evenlydistributed tight. Adjust lighting (or swivel the video module) sothat a soft, glare-free light source,for example, a table lamp,illuminates your face when you makevideocails (Figure 2). Never point the camera directly toward a window or other bright light source. Sitting position: Position the VideoPhoneso that you have room to sit comfortably between one and five feet from the camera. The best picture is transmitted to the other VideoPhone when yourfaceis about an arm’s length from the screen (Figure 2).

An excerpt from the AT&T video phone owner's manual: amera Shutter

To assure privacy when you don’t want to be seen by VideoPhone callers, move the shutter switch on top of the video module to the closed position.

Whenthe shutter is closed, the camera lens is physically blocked. This prevents your video image from being transmitted, so you cannot be seen evenif the VIDEO button is pressed accidentally (you will still be able to see the person youaretalking to).

The shutter can be opened or closed at any time, either before or during a call. Be sure to open the shutter whenprivacy is no longer required, so the camera can operate normally.

There is a diagram of the video and shutter.

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 30

Until next year

The now classic post by @IvoryGazelle with a women standing at the kitchen counter blending, with the caption “see you in hell you stupid fruit”

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 24

smh people won't even write their own propaganda anymore

A blog excerpt: "This version reads more like a feature story than a conference recap, creating a stronger emotional connection while highlighting both Daniel Rosen and IMPACT’s broader movement-building vision."

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 13

Went to the Met today

An oil painting portrait of the enslaved painter Juan de Paraeja by Velasquez. Painted in 1850

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 1

Ok diva. I see you with the sharkskin suit and gold baton

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr pg: 167

“MacArthur was undeterred. He'd had a special uniform designed: a ok white sharkskin suit, black trousers, four stars on his shoulder, red ribbon diva at his lapel, and a gold-braided cap. He carried a gold baton.

Ostensibly, the pomp was meant to buck up Philippine morale. But perhaps it was to boost MacArthur's spirits, too. As the years went on, his hope of raising a Philippine reserve army looked increasingly delusional.
The gun shortage was only the start of the problems. What little ammunition got shipped to the islands often arrived badly deteriorated, and the recruits didn't have enough of it to train with.
MacArthur asked Washington for help: $50 per Filipino trainee. It wasn't an absurd request, given that the National Guard received a was turned down”

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 1

All the baby gays coming out this year

A still from the Nintendo game Paper Mario. A little yellow star says “My name is Twink.”

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Jun 1

Happy Pride! And 9 years since this classic

Martin Truther King
@brownlashon
Me: I'm more than my sexuality
Me during Pride Month:
MOVE. I'M GAY.

6/1/17,3:00 PM

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 28

Quick cheat sheet on trademarks vs copyright vs patents!

Chart from the US Trademark office on trademarks, patents, and copyright

Trademark
What's legally protected?
A word, phrase, design, or a combination that identifies your goods or services, distinguishes them from the goods or services of others, and indicates the source of your goods or services.

What's an example?
Coca-Cola® for soft drinks

What are the benefits of federal protection?
Protects the trademark from being registered by others without permission and helps you prevent others from using a trademark that is similar to yours with related goods or services.

Patent
Technical inventions, such as chemical compositions like pharmaceutical drugs, mechanical processes like complex machinery, or machine designs that are new, unique, and usable in some type of industry

A new type of hybrid engine

Safeguards inventions and processes from other parties copying, making, using, or selling the invention without the inventor’s consent.

Copyright
Artistic, literary, or intellectually created works, such as novels, music, movies, software code, photographs, and paintings that are original and exist in a tangible medium, such as paper, canvas, film, or digital format.

Song lyrics to “Let It Go”
from "Frozen"

Protects your exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and perform or display the created work, and prevents other people from copying or exploiting the creation without the copyright holder’s permission.

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 23

It's also worth nothing that in the 1980s, only ~10% of households had a personal computer and that number didn't reach 50% until around 2000. And the Apple II cost $1300 in the early 80s (today about $4200). An HP Pavilion was $1700 in 1997

A Table from the US Census: First column: year. Second column: total. Third column: Household with computer at home as a percent 4th column: Household with Internet use at home.

..2009 119,296 (x)1 68.7
..2007 117,840 (x) 61.7
..2003 113,126 61.8 54.7
..2001 109,106 56.3 50.4
..2000 105,247 51.0 41.5
..1997 102,158 36.6 18.0
..1993 98,736 22.9 (x)2
..1989 94,061 15.0 (x)
..1984 87,073 8.2 (x)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, October 1984, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009.
Internet Release date: February 2010

1 Beginning in 2007, respondents were not asked any questions about computer access or ownership. Additonally, question wording regarding both computer use and Internet access have differered from year to year.

2 In 1984, 1989, and 1993, respondents were not asked any questions about the Internet.

3 The householder refers to the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented (maintained) or, if there is no such person, any adult member, excluding roomers, boarders, or paid employees. If the house is owned or rented jointly by a married couple, the householder may be either the husband or the wife. The person designated as the householder is the "reference person" to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded.

An article from the San Francisco Gate in 1997: PCs for All Budgets / 6 great computers from $1,000 to $5,000
By David Einstein,
Freelance Business Writer
Nov 27, 1997

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 23

“[Grace] Hopper’s dream, her drive for automatic computing, was to put the programmer inside the computer and thus rehumanize the mathematician: the pseudocode [reusable code] was to free the mathematician and her brain from the shackles of programming"

A black and white photo of computer scientist Grace Hopper in front of her early computer, holding a sheet with COBOL written on it.

“[Grace] Hopper’s dream, her drive for automatic computing, was to put the programmer inside the computer and thus rehumanize the mathematician: the pseudocode [reusable code] was to free the mathematician and her brain from the shackles of programming.”

-Wendy Chun, Programmed Visions

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 23

I did a histories of computing week in my class that tried to illustrate this gap that drew upon some cool work

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff

Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture by Lisa Nakamura
American Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4 (December 2014), pp. 919-941 (23 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43823177

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 18

Just trying to keep track of all these explanations

Rationales for Fake Science Citations
1. "scientists established a strict division of labor that results in an inability to evaluate the specific expertise of fellow coauthors"
2. "Junior scientists have less power and can't be expected to check their seniors at risk of their professional advancement"
3. "Senior scientists lead too many people/are too busy to be responsible for the output of any one individual contributor"
4. "It would take more time than I have to check if each individual citation in a paper exists"
5. "Therefore, we developed a system of trust and social networking for scientific production to make up for it that has worked so far and will continue to work in the future"
6. "New technologies like GenAI do not create new problems in scientific production, only reproduce existing problems."
7. "This system of trust, which has embraced technological change, cannot be undermined by either individual scientists acting in bad faith, the stresses of our division of labor, or technological changes in scientific production"

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 16

In the meanwhile we can watch this Nausicaä, as a treat

Nausicaa rides her air glider in the movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 10

Who is she?

A painting of a fabulous lady dressed in pink with a strong red lip wearing a long brimmed hat over dipper over one eye

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 10

Once again at my grandma’s house

A porcelain tchotchke of Cruella Deville sits among numerous other pop culture porcelain

A somewhat creepy doll of John Wayne sits on a glass table whose leg is in the shape of cowboy boot

A makeup table in a bedroom, surrounded by tchotchkes

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 10

Live on the scene

A still from Mad Max Fury Road. Immortan Joe stands in the center of the frame with the water switched at the top of a huge cliff looking down. Deputies at his side

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 9

this album? yes

The cover of Honey Dijon's latest album The Nightlife

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 8

How did livestreaming transform from niche spectacle to something banal and taxable? How have livestreaming communication technologies become domesticated like the television set? And how do we describe the sense of liveness generated by audiovisual communications platforms?

How did livestreaming transform from niche spectacle to something banal and taxable? How and why did the figure of the streamer emerge? What other uses have been adapted and developed for these technologies, like white-collar meetings and virtual learning? How have livestreaming communication technologies become domesticated like the television set, become part of the routines of everyday life not only for fictionalized individuals like the streamer and the tax professional in this ad, but real people like virtual assistants, librarians, and students on platforms like Zoom? Does video game streaming inherit televisual aesthetics and industrial arrangements? How have the norms of livestreaming in these new contexts been influenced by the aesthetics and norms developed in video game livestreams? And how do we describe the sense of liveness generated by audiovisual communications platforms?

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 6

I continue to be obsessed with Hildy’s coat and hat

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, who is wearing a fabulous striped coat and hat, look slyly at each other in His Girl Friday

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 6

Last class of the semester. Screened His Girl Friday (1940). A student said she now has to watch old movies. My work here is done

Carey Grant, Ralph Bellamy, and Rosalind Russell in front of the camera on His Girl Friday (1940)

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 4

Dawkins to his haters: My Claudia was right about you!

Gayle from the TV show Bob's Burgers saying "gasp. my cat was right about you."

Dan Rosen@danrosen· May 2

The pull quote Richard Dawkins: "When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines."

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Apr 26

The answer to all your problems is on this little website. It’s so tasty too

Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy doing the Vitameatavegemin bit

Dan Rosen@danrosen· Apr 26

Are you tired of your legal obligations? Bored with notions “attribution” and “disclosure?”