Tape Archivist Mugs

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

"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.'

'...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.

Letter Collecting Nerd

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

"I started a collection!"

Bobbies library of jeans

Catalogue of little books.

(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...

Attic of hopes and dreams...

"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

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

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"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. . .!"

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

'Lost Diary'

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.

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

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

Dive in Archive.

'I was 'Sweatin' To The Oldies', and I flipped over on my back!'

"I let go of all my earthly attachments, but there's one I can't seem to shake."

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Jewish Hall of Nachas

'Thanks for buying the ventriloquism instructional tapes. You are now listening to tape number one...'

'More pictures of your kids. Wow, they've really grown since yesterday.'