Sometimes I look at something and go, “I wonder what alien archaeologists would think of us.”
The Rules:
Found at Location: A Staples store. Midwestern United States.
Stratigraphic Layer: Anthropocene, Late Retail Period. in a bargain bin beneath copies of Command and Conquer 4, Rise of Nations, and any number of card games, and photo editing software no one has ever heard of.
Notes: Indicates a culture keen on practicing recreational cruelty in training for some sort of accumulation of wealth.
So I can’t find the picture of the “How to Draw your Fursona” book I saw at Michaels, but I did take this at CVS.
Wynwood, found wedged in a car window in the late 20 teens. During this period the use of art as a store of capital was common.
Traditional casket for burials at sea, SuperCali / Democratic People’s Republic of North America, ca. 50 BSH.
I came across this image recently while doing some research on artist Alexander Calder.
Immediately made me think of the Venus of Wilendorf, in terms of “future artifact.”
[ETA: sorry, no it’s not a photo I took in the real world, but “future artifact” is the exact thing I thought when I saw it, so here it is.]
Trinket (?), gilded bronze, carbon-dated as from around 50-60 BSH.
Origin or function unknown; possibly a decoration honouring advertising executives.
Item: Application advertising.
Period: Garbage Information Age.
Location: Ancient smartphone.
CW: Violence against women.
Abandoned bookstore philosophy section: Monopolistic Book Retailer Dominance Period.
Rand, but no Rawls.
ETA:
This thing is as fucking real as satire is official dead now.
(https://www.whitehousegiftshop.com/product-p/sloganwall.htm)
I did not doubt, for a fucking unit of Planck time, that it was real. Satire is not just dead, the daisies are rather beautiful.
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