Archived and moved to https://github.com/facinglife-syriastreet/facing.life
This webpage is a mirror of the original content created and published by Brandon Tauzik on his website at https://www.facing.life/.
The new IPFS domain:
- Agregore: ipns://facing-life.testing.sutty.nl
- ipns://facing-life.testing.sutty.nl
- https://facing--life-testing-sutty-nl.ipns.ipfs.hypha.coop/
- ipns://facing.life
- hyper://facing.life
- https://facing-life.hyper.hypha.coop/
- https://facing-life.ipns.ipfs.hypha.coop/
https://facing-life.testing.sutty.nl/
This project aims to explore ways that a journalist can preserve the content they’ve created, either for an established publication or self-published. In addition to their own work, this could also include the preservation of subsequent articles that cover the journalist’s work (ex: to show impact or earned media).
As an independent journalist, Brandon’s work is often vulnerable to disappearing from the internet. Even when published by a large outlet like the Red Cross, the maintenance and hosting of his work became an issue in the long term, and to ensure this work is still available, he now self-hosts a public website. Work published by the SF Chronicle was only available in print and/or paywalled, adding similar issues to the sharing and coverage of his work. Brandon is looking to explore options to capture and preserve the work published on websites that are subject to disappearance or ‘Link Rot’, as well as find solutions that are less costly than the current self-hosting solution, that can be easily used by other creators that are also looking to solve the link rot problem.
Technology over the past few decades has progressed at a breakneck speed. The storage and hosting we used for various media technologies one or two decades ago has completely changed, moving from records, to 8-tracks, magnetic tapes, CDs, and now media is stored digitally on the drives of various devices. We anticipate a similar rapid evolution in the technology we use to publish over the next few decades. The internet has also evolved from static sites created by a few and viewed by many, to a wide array of social media and blogging sites that make everyone contributors to the world wide web.
With the Link Rot project, we anticipate that the next few decades will continue to bring about a similar change and evolution in the technology used to store and share information, and we want to publish journalists’ work in a way that is accessible in both current systems, and published on distributed, future-facing solutions such as IPFS and Hypercore. This project will also be archived in the distributed Filecoin storage network.
Brandon Tauzik is an independent photographer in California who specializes in cinemagraphs. Projects include Syria Street (commissioned by the Red Cross), Facing Life (grant from Pulitzer Center), Tapered Throne (personal), Pale Blue Dress (gallery, covered by WaPo), and George Floyd protests (for SF Chronicle).
Starling Lab is an academic research lab innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records. Starling Lab awards fellowships to journalists who integrate and collaborate in case studies exploring the integration of technologies used to capture, store, and publish authenticated media.
Sutty is a worker-owned cooperative based in Argentina, with a platform for managing secure, fast and resilient websites using a technology called static websites, in which the entire site (the collection of webpages that provide both design and content) is generated only once before the changes are published. Because of this, the website doesn’t consume resources and lacks the more common vulnerabilities and maintenance problems most websites tend to contend with.
Hypha propagates community-led stewardship, grows technical capacities, and delivers concepts and products.Our expertise spans ideation to infrastructure. We build decentralized web protocols (see our Distributed Press initiative) and contribute to distributed ledger and blockchain-based projects. Hypha believes peer-to-peer technologies will transform traditional digital collaboration.