I have a long-running mental side project of assembling my own personal golden record, what I’d want included on the artifact to represent the best of humanity, on the off chance anyone ever decides to start another Voyager project.
My version would have to be a USB stick or something, because it’s mostly videos. I’m sure the aliens could figure out how to use it, even if they do try inserting it upside down on their first attempt.
And my agenda is a little different from the original’s. It’s not so much letting other species know what we’re all about, but my finding a piece of media that I love so much that it’s not enough to just like it; I want to make sure the entire universe is aware of how much I love it.
The list is ongoing, but at the moment, in no particular order:
fig 1: The “Never Gonna Get It” breakdown from En Vogue’s “My Lovin”
fig 2: The opening credits to Police Story 3: Supercop
fig 3: The Kenzo World ad by Spike Jonze starring Margaret Qualley
fig 4: The newspaper in Blood Simple
fig 5: The lab explosion in Darkman, in particular the transition at the end
fig 6: “Don’t panic, it’s just me, Gracie Law” from Big Trouble in Little China
fig 7: Kate Bush dancing in the moonlight in the woods in the video to “The Sensual World”
fig 8: “Babylon Band” from Kutiman’s Thru You
fig 9: “Electronic Behavior Control System” from Emergency Broadcast Network, in particular: “One more time, for the last time, ready? Yes.”
fig 10: The moment in the video for “White Knuckles” by OK Go where he high-fives the dog
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