There is some so insanely heartbreaking to me about Jonathan Sims and the way the statements were recorded. They were all originally handwritten which is such a very human thing, using your own flesh and blood write something down, just the amount of effort and emotion that goes into that. And then Jon had to digitize them using a tape recorder, definitely a lot less human as it’s now batteries and tape but still human enough since it’s using his voice. And now he’s fully inhuman, robotic, stuck in a computer, where there used to be blood and skin and bone there is now plastic and wires and a screen.

I’m currently studying funeral services and in my embalming textbook it talks about how one woman phrased it like “a dead body is an object, but it is an object unlike any other object, cannot be like any other object, because this object used to be alive” and I really like that, it feels comforting, it feels human. Jon doesn’t get this though, he was terrified of being inhuman and he doesn’t even get to be human in this “somewhere else” he doesn’t get to be an object that used to be alive, he is just an object, like a pencil that wrote down the original statements, or the tape recorder that used to record them, and now the computer.

A 70s Teenager's Bedroom

For the TMA fandom.

(I have the whole episode on that tape)

It was very worth it for how mUCH IT COST ME

I want to buy a cassette player, but everyone online says that new ones have the durability of wet toilet paper and that vintage is the way to go, but the good ones were discontinued 20 or 30 years ago so they're few and far between and the ones that still work are expensive as hell. We live in a time when you can't just buy a quality product anymore. They simply do not exist. Everything is designed to break and need replacing, planned obsolescence. I want physical media, I want tapes, I want CDs, I want DVDs, I want to own something and know I own it forever.

It literally takes a single sound effect to send tma fans into a frenzy

My hungry ass could never work at the magnus institute

This is my (kinda new 😂) Walkman… And yes: this time I can really call it Walkman, cause this one actually is a Sony!

It‘s a WM 32 from somewhen 1986 and 89, so it‘s the most basic model by Sony, like no Radio, no Auto-Reverse or any other funny extras. But — that‘s still great: cause everything it doesn’t have…. can‘t break, and come on — it just looks great.

It also came with a belt-clip so I can actually wear it as part of my outfit, I’m literally so excited 🤣😁😁

Sony TC-152SD // 1 of the 1st portable pro stereo cassette recorders (1978)

WE GOT TAPE RECORDER SOUNDS WE ARE SO BACK GUYS

Nordmende Tape Recorder Titanette, 1965

Wire and tape sculpture

The fucked up guy!

okay yeah yeah haha your boyfriend was given a tape recorder and now he's a horror podcast protagonist hahaha but seriously why do random tapes keep popping up around me

vasárnapi zenehallgatás. a fotó az 1960-as években készült Nyugat-Németországban, készítője ismeretlen. magántulajdonban lévő 9x12 cm-es zselatinos ezüst.

via regifotok.hu Alapítvány a Kultúra Vizuális Kutatásáért / Facebook

in the front: GDR made Phonoton portable record player (most probably)

in the background: Dansette radiogram

Down in the Archives we're listening via a tape recorder! We're down in the Archives!! Worm tracks?!!?! SYMBOLS OF ANCIENT OTHERWORLDLY POWER??!?! Who was that in the end?? Hellooooo?!?!

And just one more time for emphasis, we're listening via a tape recorder!!! *muffled screams of excitement*

The Associated Press, in an article on December 18, 1943, called this contraption "compact." It was a tape recorder that was available for consumers. "It can be plugged into a microphone, radio, or telephone for recording; then a flip of a switch sets the machine to play the record back," the press service reported excitedly. "The tape permits eight hours of recording or playing without changing. The inventor, Jay Fonda, a longtime cinema sound man, got his idea from the movie soundtrack." They added that the device "might upset the recording industry."

Photo: Dan Grossi for the AP