Loved these lines, lines that bounce between the acmes and nadirs of our little lives:
“I wonder why nostalgia always has a tinge of melancholy to it? A vivid memory is a double edged sword, I think. You feel the past more acutely, and then its absence more acutely still.”
And if the absence overwhelms, you, with your suped-up Excel, can run the bloke-wearing-the-ex’s-cologne over
I love how you end on we don’t celebrate ordinary things. I’ve been pondering lately why we have such a fascination with nostalgia. I love seeing a pristine example of an ordinary car in a sea of modern electric and hybrid cars. Way more interesting than a new Porsche gt3 rs. Old objects have tactility built into their design which makes them real when you compare them to modern cars which don’t have buttons or knobs on the dashboard just a screen.
Have you heard or read a book called The design of everyday things by Don Norman?
Congrats on your new old car, and your gorgeously evocative meditation on rescuing/resuscitating Really Important Intimate Memorialised Stuff from nostalgia into Right Here & Now. My 85 y.o. Dad is in the middle of a weeks-long project scanning "old" (define?) slides, translating the scribbled biro details into filenames, sorting, labelling, sharing with us.
Steph,
Loved these lines, lines that bounce between the acmes and nadirs of our little lives:
“I wonder why nostalgia always has a tinge of melancholy to it? A vivid memory is a double edged sword, I think. You feel the past more acutely, and then its absence more acutely still.”
And if the absence overwhelms, you, with your suped-up Excel, can run the bloke-wearing-the-ex’s-cologne over
I love how you end on we don’t celebrate ordinary things. I’ve been pondering lately why we have such a fascination with nostalgia. I love seeing a pristine example of an ordinary car in a sea of modern electric and hybrid cars. Way more interesting than a new Porsche gt3 rs. Old objects have tactility built into their design which makes them real when you compare them to modern cars which don’t have buttons or knobs on the dashboard just a screen.
Have you heard or read a book called The design of everyday things by Don Norman?
Gorgeous wheels and pinstriping, great find
Congrats on your new old car, and your gorgeously evocative meditation on rescuing/resuscitating Really Important Intimate Memorialised Stuff from nostalgia into Right Here & Now. My 85 y.o. Dad is in the middle of a weeks-long project scanning "old" (define?) slides, translating the scribbled biro details into filenames, sorting, labelling, sharing with us.
As an owner of a mildly batshit record collection, cassettes, cartridges and cameras: this strums the heart strings! What a GEM!
I’m not sure why I love my collections (especially the records), but you best believe my life is painted in colour because of it.
Drive on, legend, drive on.