Artifacts / Fetish Items / Micro Obsessions

This is a scribble for a later idea. I’ve been obsessed with a stupid thought: I have the typical ADHD thing where I get obsessed with something and then don’t care after. It’s like fiery intense attention and then, Oh whatever. That old thing?

I stole the ingredients for this idea. Some from our man Van:

I get obsessed with some things. But the thing is, only in passing fancy kinds of ways. Like, right now, I’m obsessed with the idea of getting a bluetooth turntable, because I have a few bluetooth speakers laying around and thought about how fun it’d be to get a few vinyl albums and play them nice and loud the old fashioned way on a turntable.

But I won’t be super into it after a little bit.

Then, I’ll get obsessed with something like micro cassette recorders or maybe handheld digital microphones like the Tascam ones that look like menacing tasers.

See how both examples so far are superfluous? I have a mobile device. It streams music. It records audio. I don’t need these things. But there’s some kind of obsession around the artifact itself.

But maybe branch into other things, like mechanical pencils, or certain pens. Etc. Objects that when you touch and feel them, they made you FEEL a certain something. Or in the case of the record player, that sound that vinyl gives.

So it’s not an amazing idea, but I started listing out some of the “things” I think might be interesting. Then, I’ll refine that list a bit. Then, I might think about a theme. Like “ways we communicate and consume” or something.

Or “things an ineffective spy might use” and so on.

Dumb? Probably. But I might still do it.