Artifacts: Season 3 Trailer
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Season 3 of Artifacts is going back to the things that started it all.
This season, I'm looking at the technology, games, objects and pieces of internet culture we remember - from the Zune and MiniDisc to LaserDisc, the Game Boy Camera and Choose Your Own Adventure books.
Each episode starts with an artifact, explores its history and then follows the story underneath it: the memories, experiences and feelings that made these things matter in the first place.
Because Artifacts isn't about whether things were better back then. It's about why some of those things can still take us straight back to another time in our lives.
Find the artifact first. Then find the feeling inside it.
Season 3 is coming soon.
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- RODE NT1-A large diaphragm condenser mic
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Transcript
Remember the things you couldn't imagine living without? The music player you carried everywhere.
Speaker:The little piece of plastic that held your game saves. The software box you
Speaker:couldn't wait to bring home.
Speaker:The camera that took terrible photographs but somehow made you want to take hundreds of them.
Speaker:Some of those things disappeared because something better came along.
Speaker:Some were simply unlucky. And some were actually pretty great but somehow never
Speaker:got the chance to become the future.
Speaker:That's where we're going in Season 3 of Artifacts. I'll be looking at the Zune,
Speaker:the MiniDisc, LaserDisc, the Game Boy Camera,
Speaker:choose-your-own-adventure books, and some other pieces of technology and culture
Speaker:that might have disappeared from our everyday lives, but never quite disappeared from our memories.
Speaker:Because Artifacts isn't really about whether the technology was good or bad,
Speaker:or whether things were better back then.
Speaker:It's about the things themselves, the stories around them, and the feelings we left inside them.
Speaker:Why did we care about them? What did they change? What did they become part of?
Speaker:And why can something we haven't touched in 20 years still take us straight
Speaker:back to another time in our lives?
Speaker:I'm Danny Brown and this is Artifacts. Season 3, coming soon.
