Obsolescence In Storage (places in space #58)

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Notes:

1. Written on September 4th, 2020
2. There’s a line in The Place Of Dead Roads by William Burroughs that talks of a museum of lost inventions.
3. “Spread out in dusty cases, devices from extinct cultures so remote in space and time that no link exists to tell the viewer what function they served.”
4. And I have long wanted to make a museum of lost inventions.
5. Images culled from old adverts
6. Or photos
7. Or lines from books
8. Where technologies are mentioned
9. Off hand
10. And unexplained
11. But I have never done this
12. And probably never will.
13. So all I have is this.

(a memory)

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Notes:

1. Written on the 25th February 2021
2. And animated on the 26th February, 2021
3. And based on a memory from 1983
4. Or thereabouts
5. I can still remember the shame
6. And the embarrassment
7. More so than the horror
8. Although I expect there was horror there too.
9. Also this was made using the figures from A Bad Dream
10. For thematic reasons I suppose
11. But also because I found them in a tub in my cupboard this morning
12. All sealed up and dust free and pristine
13. Just begging to be used again