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Recording Ourselves

2015-12-11

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In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,

Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws

The only shadow that the Desert knows:—

"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,

"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows

"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—

Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose

The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express

Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness

Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,

He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess

What powerful but unrecorded race

Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

-Horace Smith's Ozymandias

CORRECTIONS

7:33 - World Population figure should be 0.27%

8:08 - Digital Voice Recorder should be Sony PCM

****** LINKS AND SOURCES *******

BOOKS

A Brief History Of Diaries by Alexandra Johnson

http://goo.gl/gEaxcQ

Documenting Individual Identity by Caplan and Torpey

http://goo.gl/1e68Wi

LINKS

Humai - Human Resurrection Through AI

http://humaitech.com

Christopher Columbus XX

http://www.thepanamadigest.com/2010/03/christopher-columbus-in-panama-for-tourism-project/

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15283071

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-09/local/me-191_1_christopher-columbus

http://www.ejercito.mde.es/gl/unidades/Toledo/acinf/Noticias/2014/140318.html

Cylinder Seals In Mesopotamia

http://goo.gl/0Ly7oH

http://goo.gl/f3j1zx

http://goo.gl/ztFP7I

http://goo.gl/8Ewf88

http://goo.gl/ylVr2D

Cylinder Seal of Ibni-Sharrum by Denis Pitzsalis

https://goo.gl/hyBqIF

Social Group Size Predicts the Evolution Of Identity

http://goo.gl/yzSdMq

Seikilos Epitaph Performed by Marcus Harvey

https://goo.gl/A7QQiT

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

https://goo.gl/c3jRLG

Literacy - Our World In Data

http://goo.gl/isb4A6

Probate Records

https://goo.gl/FDhT4I

Diaries

http://goo.gl/V09l6

Venus Tan-Tan & Berekhat Ram

http://goo.gl/u0rt7

Paul Revere Probate Record

http://goo.gl/97z89K

Alexander Graham Bell’s Ear Phonautograph

http://goo.gl/jAHFHb

http://goo.gl/xghDYu

Luca Landucci

https://goo.gl/hTnI0l

On The Execution Of Friar Girolamo Savonarola

http://goo.gl/WHq8um

Marcus Aurelius - The Meditations

http://goo.gl/7aQs6

American Indian Oral Tradition Painting

Buffalo Bill Center of the West / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY

The Republic Of Letters

http://goo.gl/jPidq

http://goo.gl/M39odJ

Library Of Congress

https://goo.gl/xgRHHV

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Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber

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Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media

http://koala.fm/

VFX by Eric Langlay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbXVXPFAVI

Additional Animation by Lulu Jiang

http://www.lulujiang.com/

Production Assistant Michael Watson

https://twitter.com/MichaelDWatson1

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi and Jared Tuttle

http://hothead.tv/

http://jaypellizzi.com/

Outro Song: Block Out The Sun by Paul Russel

Special Thanks To Ryan Bond, Noah Tesch, Kathleen Kuiper And The Folks At Encyclopedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/

Special Thanks To The Morgan Library & Museum

http://www.themorgan.org/

Special Thanks To Chris From Zanzibar Land For Creating The Vsauce Cylinder Seal

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZanzibarLand

https://www.instagram.com/zanzibar_land/

Special Thanks To Expert Mesopotamia Joshua J. Mark

http://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/

Special Thanks To You.


Cylinder Seal (7600-6000 BC, Mesopotamia)
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Earliest Commoner Diary 1450 AD, Florence
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