I hear ya. I've thought the same thing. I try and keep up the notebooks, scraps of paper, and snail mail letters, but it's hard to fully keep them up. And pictures - I haven't had prints made up in years. We totally are losing that tangible memorabilia, but... only so much we can do to to merely slow the process.
Oh you! I was going to try to get research done tonight, but then you got me thinking about all of these THINGS!
For some reason I see the internet as actually increasing the ephemera in my life 10-fold. Here's why:
Before the internet what did we have? We had FOUND magazine in actual magazine form (and we had maybe a few dozen other similar publications, all of which you had to subscribe to and pay money for...) But now look at what we have! We have foundmagazine.com (for starters) but we also have blog projects (the most obvious being postsecret, but there are a zillion others) and we have stuff like where'sgeorge? and book-swaps and improv everywhere and all of these other little things that bring the zany, wacked, random world into brief moments of focus. And anyone can access these moments! From any computer anywhere!
Okay, sure, most of the stuff on the internet is just made up of pixels. But somehow they still seem living to me. Like they bring beauty to the masses.
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For some reason I see the internet as actually increasing the ephemera in my life 10-fold. Here's why:
Before the internet what did we have? We had FOUND magazine in actual magazine form (and we had maybe a few dozen other similar publications, all of which you had to subscribe to and pay money for...) But now look at what we have! We have foundmagazine.com (for starters) but we also have blog projects (the most obvious being postsecret, but there are a zillion others) and we have stuff like where'sgeorge? and book-swaps and improv everywhere and all of these other little things that bring the zany, wacked, random world into brief moments of focus. And anyone can access these moments! From any computer anywhere!
Okay, sure, most of the stuff on the internet is just made up of pixels. But somehow they still seem living to me. Like they bring beauty to the masses.
....Gosh, did that make any sense at all?
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