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Home » Extinct modern technology presented like fossils

Extinct modern technology presented like fossils

December 17, 2009 By ThisBlogRules 43 Comments

playstationArtist 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.

cell-phone cell-phone-2 classic-tape classic-tape2 game-boy gameboy floppy-disks floppy record-player record-player-2 nitendo-3 nitendo-2 joystick gun game-boy gameboy boomblaster phone nitendo More art made by hand are these realistic paper sculptures.

Filed Under: art, creative Tagged With: modern, technology, video games

Comments

  1. Eric says

    December 18, 2009 at 2:08 am

    That was good, but they forgot things like phone books, paper money, and CDs.

  2. Luzzy says

    December 18, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Honey, things like phone books and paper money would fall apart. And people still use CDs…. albeit not very OFTEN, but they’re still used…..

  3. Ruby says

    December 19, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    People still use cds?? Some of us still use tapes and turntables 😀

  4. Jacob says

    December 21, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    I still use CD’s & paper money ! & I still sometimes use the gameboy controllers. 😀

  5. Shawn says

    December 22, 2009 at 3:17 am

    the playstation controller was stupid, because they use the same thing for the PS3

  6. Coopes says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:48 am

    I think the Playstation controller should not belong there.

  7. Carrey says

    December 23, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    I’d say he forgot beepers and answering machines.

  8. Anon says

    December 24, 2009 at 2:47 am

    i think there really cool… and id like to see all you negative people do what they did

  9. Blake says

    December 24, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    2000 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.

  10. Controler says

    December 25, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    actually the PS controller should be there. It is illustrating the fact that the controllers used to have a wire.

  11. Earth says

    December 27, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    These aren’t extinct items; they are, however, the ingredients for all ultra-modern technology!

  12. Historic says

    December 28, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Fax machine? :-/

  13. ...Kaoz says

    December 29, 2009 at 8:51 am

    just enjoy the pics…. give thanks and stop the BS

  14. Angel says

    December 29, 2009 at 9:54 am

    I love those pieces of art.

  15. HD says

    December 29, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    why is there a Hard Drive?? …. almost every computer has a hard drive

  16. DK says

    December 30, 2009 at 3:11 am

    I think the PS controller needs to stay there…. and sony should take note, grow a pair, and innovate for once.

  17. Kenny says

    December 30, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    I doubt they were “made” by hand…. they look like plaster casts made from moulds of the originals…see all the holes from air bubbles !

  18. Simon says

    December 30, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    I 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.

  19. Hash says

    December 31, 2009 at 12:40 am

    that’s not a cd =x

  20. Like says

    December 31, 2009 at 6:31 am

    in 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

  21. Gary says

    January 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    The 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.

  22. PS says

    January 2, 2010 at 1:33 am

    I 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.

  23. Denis says

    January 4, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    i 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

  24. Dave says

    January 8, 2010 at 4:25 am

    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.

  25. NETZSOOC says

    January 11, 2010 at 10:14 am

    I think the Hard Drive is actually a turn table… hehe LOL

  26. Marsh says

    January 12, 2010 at 5:02 am

    The PS3 uses the same controller…
    Precisely the reason it belongs here. =))

  27. Thomas says

    January 14, 2010 at 5:42 am

    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?

  28. Jake says

    January 17, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    Nice work. CDs? I still use steel needles….

  29. Liam says

    January 18, 2010 at 2:16 am

    amazing nintendo 64 controllers

  30. Sonya says

    January 20, 2010 at 1:24 am

    are these for sale? would love a 64 one…

  31. Dude says

    January 28, 2010 at 2:24 am

    If 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.

  32. Yoshinatsu Ryou says

    February 10, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Cool!!!!!

  33. Sneaks says

    February 16, 2010 at 8:42 am

    You 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.

  34. Heidi says

    February 21, 2010 at 8:32 am

    @Dude – why fix what’s not broken? I prefer the ps controller to any other current controllers. I miss the N64 controllers.

  35. Charlie says

    March 18, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    This 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.
    I think they’re called the Labyrinthe of Buda Hill.

  36. AudioDruid says

    April 11, 2010 at 6:33 am

    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 😉

  37. anggatz says

    April 11, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    wooooow

  38. RoughArtist says

    May 7, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    For me its a great piece of Art. Literally describe as a glimpse of the past that has quickly faded/obsolete.

  39. Brian says

    May 13, 2010 at 5:11 am

    there 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

  40. shawn says

    May 16, 2010 at 3:39 am

    How about.. Betamax, or an RCA Disk Player Disk or an 8 track?

  41. Name (required) says

    May 24, 2010 at 4:28 am

    Last 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.

  42. Coppy says

    June 2, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    Dave 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.
    People 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”

  43. art insurance directory says

    October 4, 2010 at 7:23 am

    For me its a great piece of Art. Literally describe as a glimpse of the past that has quickly faded/obsolete.

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