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Restoring a Second Life Identity
Revisiting my Dedric Mauriac Second Life archive, I rebuilt thousands of images into a searchable static site and blog. What began as preservation became reflection—reconnecting a virtual life with my real one, and understanding how it shaped who I am today. Read More
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Teaching an Archive to Read Itself
Today I began turning Dedric Mauriac’s Flickr archive into a static, searchable website. After building timelines, tags, and navigation, I experimented with OCR and AI image analysis to extract Second Life simulator names and coordinates embedded in BlogHUD captions. Read More
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Reclaiming Flickr: The Final Phase
The final phase of my Flickr migration focuses on intentional resizing, metadata preservation, and reconstructing community context. With AI-assisted descriptions and chronological rebuilding, thousands of images now live independently on my blog—optimized, searchable, and no longer dependent on third-party platforms. Read More
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Reclaiming Flickr: Owning My Photos Again
Importing my Flickr archive became more than a data migration. It turned into a full reconstruction project—mapping IDs, rebuilding albums, extracting EXIF data, and using AI to enrich thousands of images—transforming dormant backups into a searchable, living archive. Read More