Mr. TIFF - An Oral History of a Format

Stephen Carlsen died in 2025. His family knew vaguely that he had worked on creating the file format TIFF, but it was his nephew, Nathan Carlsen, who kicked off a quest for the full story. This week, senior producer Hans Buetow talks with Nathan about his oral history project to document his uncle’s work, and we hear a fascinating conversation that Nathan had with Donovan Cameron, a First Nation GIS specialist who uses the TIFF in unexpected ways.

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Mr. Tiff

Find Nathan:

• Podcast: Inquisitive Pontification
• Original Reddit Post

Find Donovan:

• Website
• Documentary about Treaty 8 territories
• Living Proof by Terry Tobias

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

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It comes like this.

With tiny fingers screeching along the sidewalk screeching

screeching waiting

more than waiting.

It comes like this.

Writing a spasmotic gait of a

too quick operation speech

like the broke spoke of

wheels of things of

machine crossed human crossed with

machine metal grinding

grinding too

fast for its own function

It comes like this

Exceprt of FLOOD WATCHING by Elizabeth Fodaski 

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