I’m planning on throwing together a time capsule. Everything must be pretty cheap but quinessentially of our times. I’ve not got many ideas yet, though, and would love to hear what objects you think could represent the various aspects of these times.

I am thinking of drawing on some of the emphemera documented in Hippo Eats Dwarf ("Bust-Up Gum” seems to capture a certain zeitgeist!); I’m including a couple of certified SARS-disinfected postcards; I’ll probably add a couple of packs of cigarettes (the way things are going those could be contraband in a few decades); I’ve got newspapers from 9/12… so there’s no real focus.

What would you add? What (affordable!!) objects would you see as zeitgeisty?

Well I guess an SUV would be a bit bulky and a tad on the expensive side, so perhaps just the driver then?

My “gun”, A piece of paper,Seeds,A checklist of things i wanted to do when i was little and a picture of me as a kid and oh yeah myself or at least pieces of my DNA

If you’re planning to dig it up yourself some day, buy first editions of whatever new books come out for the next six months and bury those. Chances are at least one will be worth something when you get round to exhuming them.

Porn.

Robin, depending on when it’s finally dug up, today’s porn probably won’t be porn then.  Remember when seeing a woman’s ankles were risk-a?

Robin Bobcat - 15 May 2008 02:46 AM

Porn.

I’m in agreement.

I myself have unearthed the Blue Peter time capsule in secret and replaced all the Grange Hill annuals and toy cars with good, hardcore pornography. The finest Germany has to offer.

‘Blue Peter’… that just *sounds* like something Porn-related.. magazine, or movie?

Children’s TV Show.

Boo - 15 May 2008 04:49 AM

Children’s TV Show.

Not a bad idea. But which one(s)?

Robin Bobcat - 15 May 2008 02:46 AM

Porn.

  minded whats blue peter?

Sorry, that was my answering Robin.

I’d suggest The Simpsons, if asked to choose a TV show.