Extinct modern technology presented like fossils
Artist Christopher Locke has made these modern fossils by hand, everything from cassettes and floppy disks to Nintendo and joysticks. They represent pieces of modern technology that almost has become “extinct” in these days because of improved technology. Locke collaborated with a local computer and electronics recycling program, insuring that there was no e-waste from the project.
More art made by hand are these realistic paper sculptures.
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That was good, but they forgot things like phone books, paper money, and CDs.
Dec 18, 2009Honey, things like phone books and paper money would fall apart. And people still use CDs…. albeit not very OFTEN, but they’re still used…..
Dec 18, 2009People still use cds?? Some of us still use tapes and turntables
Dec 19, 2009I still use CD’s & paper money ! & I still sometimes use the gameboy controllers.
Dec 21, 2009the playstation controller was stupid, because they use the same thing for the PS3
Dec 22, 2009I think the Playstation controller should not belong there.
Dec 22, 2009I’d say he forgot beepers and answering machines.
Dec 23, 2009i think there really cool… and id like to see all you negative people do what they did
Dec 24, 20092000 years later, this could be the only proof existed for the new era of human being to be discovered. Cuz, every information in the existing material today is in plastic cd, all info inside will be vanished.
Dec 24, 2009actually the PS controller should be there. It is illustrating the fact that the controllers used to have a wire.
Dec 25, 2009These aren’t extinct items; they are, however, the ingredients for all ultra-modern technology!
Dec 27, 2009Fax machine? :-/
Dec 28, 2009just enjoy the pics…. give thanks and stop the BS
Dec 29, 2009I love those pieces of art.
Dec 29, 2009why is there a Hard Drive?? …. almost every computer has a hard drive
Dec 29, 2009I think the PS controller needs to stay there…. and sony should take note, grow a pair, and innovate for once.
Dec 30, 2009I doubt they were “made” by hand…. they look like plaster casts made from moulds of the originals…see all the holes from air bubbles !
Dec 30, 2009I think that is really cool and for all you people who are just thinking negative like oh that shoulnt be there ur not changing anything.
Dec 30, 2009that’s not a cd =x
Dec 31, 2009in my opinion, all of these belong (even the PS1 controller)….except the hard-drive; those are still used, in huge numbers, all over the place. ssd and other forms of mass storage may eventually replace spinning disk, but it hasn’t happened yet
Dec 31, 2009The PS controller is correct to be there. Mummies were people who lived a long time ago, and people still exist. But they are a mystery to us. So the controller still exist, like us.
Jan 1, 2010I don’t think morons should be allowed to comment on websites. Yes, the PS controller should be there due to the highlighting of the port connection. If you do not like something don’t comment just leave the site. I personally enjoyed all of this talented artists artwork.
Jan 2, 2010i feel like the people complaining that some of the technology fossilized are missing the point, if the artist made fully obsolete fossils it would not convey the same point. a fossilized gramaphone or telegraph would not pack the same punch as the items the artist selected. I do wish though, that the artist did fewer game controls. six is too much
Jan 4, 2010You dummies. That’s not a regular hard drive. It’s a hard drive from inside a first generation iPod. That’s pretty much extinct, since they use flash SSD storage now.
Jan 8, 2010I think the Hard Drive is actually a turn table… hehe LOL
Jan 11, 2010The PS3 uses the same controller…
Jan 12, 2010Precisely the reason it belongs here. =))
VHS tapes, incandescent light bulbs, analog televisions, remember when speaker cabinets were more than a foot tall? I would have chose the pre-analog PSone controller, howabout a remote control with a wire on it, remember those? oh i know! an iomega zip disk! a NiCad battery, a bag(car)phones, I read soon well have self inflating tires so maybe a valve steam fossil?
Jan 14, 2010Nice work. CDs? I still use steel needles….
Jan 17, 2010amazing nintendo 64 controllers
Jan 18, 2010are these for sale? would love a 64 one…
Jan 20, 2010If the ps controller appears here it means one thing: Sony must leave past days, for god sake the design is at least 10 years old.
Jan 28, 2010Cool!!!!!
Feb 10, 2010You guys are f***ing morons. The purpose of the art was not to claim these pieces of technology as archaic, but rather to show a glimpse into the future of what the very far off generations might expect to find petrified from our culture. Also, that isn’t a CD player or a turntable you’re looking at. It’s a hard drive. Try thinking before typing.
Feb 16, 2010@Dude – why fix what’s not broken? I prefer the ps controller to any other current controllers. I miss the N64 controllers.
Feb 21, 2010This was cool, In Budapest there are caverns underneath the castle hill where the owners have had some fun and done similar things to this. There is a giant coke bottle embedded in rock and that sort of thing. Its good times.
Mar 18, 2010I think they’re called the Labyrinthe of Buda Hill.
They Should also put a fax machine, typewriter, flip-style cell-phone,an HD-DVD and a desktop computer in one of those! They’re nearly obsolete!
Also, I’m sixteen and have a turntable, tape deck and floppy drive and use them all, there not totally obsolete.
I also second the PS2 contoller is a fail too
Apr 11, 2010wooooow
Apr 11, 2010For me its a great piece of Art. Literally describe as a glimpse of the past that has quickly faded/obsolete.
May 7, 2010there is no hard drive in here you morons its a record player. and its a cool concept but this shit isnt hard to do at all. all it is is a strict moulding of the original in plaster, and he added some extra to it to make it look fossilized
May 13, 2010How about.. Betamax, or an RCA Disk Player Disk or an 8 track?
May 16, 2010Last time I checked everybody uses paper money, and the majority of car stereos play CD’s. What are you from the future or something? I guess they never did find a cure for stupidity.
May 24, 2010Dave said:
“You dummies. That’s not a regular hard drive. It’s a hard drive from inside a first generation iPod. That’s pretty much extinct, since they use flash SSD storage now.”
I think you are the dumb here. have you ever even opened a harddrive?? that could be any intern harddrive which is still used nowadays
@Brian
You’re a moron if you really think its a record player.
I personally think these are really brilliant! A bit pitty the N64 controller, the SNES controller and the NES Zapper is destroyed though but they all look awesome
PS.
Jun 2, 2010People saying these things aren’t extincted yet.
I’m puttin a end to the complaining now.
Everything will be replaced with nano technology very soon. Nano technology is already invented but too expensive though. Google for it!
Correcting the title: “soon to be extinct technology presented like fossils”
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