Derek Kompare
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Derek Kompare
@dkompare.bsky.social
Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995.

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January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
As long as it's not all closed when my wife and I visit at the end of February! Our last Disneyland trip was in 2015, when the Galaxy's Edge construction was just getting started.
January 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Sure! Sounds intriguing, and up my alley. DM me for my email address.
January 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Cancelling my Evernote account due to their hard (and not cheap) push into AI puffery. 👋

But I found out if you start cancelling, it will offer you 40% off an annual renewal. Capitalism, man. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway. Still cancelling. 👋
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Jeremy and Scott are fantastic and super-cool archivists and projectionists. They also run a YouTube channel to surface rights-approved highlights from the collection.

youtube.com/@smujonesfil...
SMU Jones Film
The G. William Jones Film & Video Collection, part of the SMU Libraries at Southern Methodist University, est. 1970. Curators Jeremy Spracklen & Scott Martin
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December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My theory is that most media culture (as we’ve known it for the past century) has about a 70-year lifespan in mainstream circulation before it dwindles out to the hardcore enthusiasts and historians. We’re starting to turn that corner on the 1960s.
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THE PRESTIGE clocks in at 130 minutes, but it’s an editing banger.

“Are you watching closely?”
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Hey, I went on a four *month* phone break while studying abroad in London.*

* in 1989, about 20 years before the invention of the iPhone
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
He is a sea sponge from a small town who has dreamed of becoming a sophisticated cosmopolitan sponge in a clean, modern kitchen. IOW, a geeky theater kid looking to escape a place where "culture" consists of two competing fast-food joints.
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM