Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Third Act of Collecting Episode Jun 09, 2025

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The Third Act of Collecting Episode: What Drives People to Collect, The Roles, The Responsibilities, The Urge and Drive, My Witness To The Third Act, Sentinels of Oblivion, Redundancy, The Process, Indexing Heartbreak, The Time Crunch, The Future, The Hope. Thoughts on when people have spent a long time making a collection and my experiences when they reach that inevitable end of the process.

The Furious Card Episode Jun 06, 2025

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The Furious Card Episode: Finding an Old Card, The Handover and the Promise, The Fury, Exclusitivity, Teenage Sharing, Providing Access, Improv Everywhere, MP3 Experiment, Unrecorded Experiences, TinyTIM Open Invitation, The White-Hot Fury, The Boston Group, A Constant Reminder. In this I mention The Latitude. Here's some information about The Latitude. https://www.businessinsider.com/my-experience-with-the-latitude-society-2015-10 https://medium.com/@jeslach/the-latitude-society-a-story-45915e489937 https://nonchalance.com/latitude.html

The Arcade Tourist Episode Jun 02, 2025

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The Arcade Tourist Episode: Visiting Other Countries, Visiting Arcades, The Uniqueness of Each Arcade, The Unplanned Planned Journey, The Outpost in the City, Hundreds of Years, The Enriching Experience, The Shared Machines. Also: A Note on Health. An episode about my visits to arcades in cities around the world.

The Grey Box Episode May 30, 2025

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The Grey Box Episode: A Fine Purchase, A New Fulcrum, Permanent Storage, Memories and Accomplishments, A Personal Set, The Futures and Destinies of Dreams, The Pitfalls and Losses, Our Place on the Timeline, Plus: I'm Fine. Some ruminations as I start putting together another phase of my own personal archive, and what it means. Plus: I'm doing fine! I'm absolutely fine!

The Clocks Episode May 26, 2025

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The Clocks Episode: Attending The Clock, The Intercutting, The Supercut, Digital Filmmaking, Silent Labor, One to Four Hours, Time Out of Time, Other Artworks, The Dry-Run, The Future Screening. An episode about attending The Clock, a film project that shows a 24 hour film of the passage of time via clock-faces and references to them. Full context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

The SuperBanana Lunch Episode May 23, 2025

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The SuperBanana Lunch Episode: A Pleasant Meetup, A Conversation, The Cold Arrow of Criticism, A Recurring Character, Why Go to Meetings, Social Gathering as a Component, A Long and Fruitful Life, Meetings and Gatherings, Conventions and Lunch.

I may have covered this situation before, but I've had more time to think about it and it's just gotten more ridiculous.

The Chowder Box Deep Dive Episode May 19, 2025

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The Chowder Box Deep Dive Episode: Progress into the Chowder Boxes, the layers of years, what we see in the boxes, future thoughts to past experiences, scraps and detritus, the story inside myself, the links easily lost, broken lines and connected threads, an exciting plateau. I've never thought I'd get to this part of my collections!

The Ride to New Hampshire Episode May 16, 2025

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The Ride to New Hampshire Episode.In which I learned an awful lot about myself and life in a very short time.

The VHS Spectacle Episode May 12, 2025

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The VHS Spectacle Episode: An Apartment in New York City, Realizing the Value, The Spectacle, Television Specials, Long-Form Recording, Inauguration, Popes, Funerals, The Rareness of Long-Form TV, The Hidden Cultural Curator. A long overdue thank-you to the family that invited me in to take a bunch of boxes of VHS tapes, and the discoveries within. Under the new office, with 2-3 tapes being digitized at once, the results will be done in a flash but the benefits will last for a long time.

The Tape Baking Episode May 09, 2025

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The Tape Baking Episode: The Cult of Baked Tapes, The Problem With Magnetic Media, Potential Solutions, Tape Baking Recipe, Digital and Analog Solutions, The Singular Moment on Tapes, A Very Long Consideration of Personalities. Weirdly, the best page I found on tape baking as an introduction is so retro you aren't 100% sure if they're not intentionally doing an aesthetic, but here it is, courtesy of Wendy Carlos: If I'd Have Known You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Tape!

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