Memory Archivist Prints

Now playing... everything you said at the party.

'Lost Diary'

Henry would spend many an afternoon raking up the past.

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

Letter Collecting Nerd

Catalogue of little books.

Bobbies library of jeans

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

It's my biggest project - a database of all my sister's boyfriends.

'Remember when we caught small fish by the bucket full?' 'Oh, yeah! Those were the dace!'

Attic of hopes and dreams...

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

"What's this? Now we have to hunt, gather and collate?"

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

Dive in Archive.

"I'm still looking, sir?"

"What's the first thing you remember?" "Why do you ask?" "Because it'll help the cosmologists." "Come again?" "Cosmologists have discovered a lot about the universe. In 1990, they discovered cosmic microwaves are 'black body radiation.'" "What that means is, they discovered the microwave radiation that fills the universe conforms exactly to a pattern known as a 'black body spectrum' that was predicted by models of the Big Bang." "English!!!" "They proved the Big Bang happened." "But one of the b