I’ve always loved visiting museums as a kid for the sheer experience of being transported to a different era. It is like a secret time travel portal to people who can see it and a boring building with ancient stuff to people who can’t. So, choosing the topic for the podcast wasn’t difficult, and I had so much fun scripting it.
I wanted to portray both sadness of losing so many museums due to budget cuts, and the amazement of how many museums shall survive bringing new experiences for visitors. As I read further about the use of digital technologies in museums, I realized many museums have been doing that even before covid. However, covid pushed more museums to be open to digitalization to survive. The statistics I found from multiple scholarly sources varied slightly, but all predicted the closure of more museums. It seems like it is the beginning of a new era for museums and how we, as visitors experience the culture.
I intentionally titled the podcast ‘Magical history houses closing forever?’ to signify the closure of many museums all over the world. However, as the podcast progressed the future of the museum doesn’t seem that bleak. In fact, the museums of the future promise to be much more immersive, taking us on almost real-like time travel journeys.
The problem arose while I was recording, starting with the fact that I hate my recorded voice. Telling myself that I gotta get used to it, especially if I want a career in media, I finally recorded the podcast. I made several mistakes as I read out the script, but didn’t bother about re-starting the entire script hoping to edit out the mistakes later. That was not a great decision on my part, as I am not accustomed to using Audacity, and editing every single flaw became very tedious.
So, I came up with plan B. To read the script in six different parts, and re-start every time I made a mistake. This allowed me to take breaks between each recording to read what I had to say next. Also, every time I made a mistake, I could restart as I didn’t have to start from the beginning. This worked so much better than the first time I tried to edit.
I used piano music from free sound for the intro and outro music. However, for the picture, I used a photo I clicked a few years back when I was living in India.
SMiLes Dear Shreya What A Pleasing
Narrative Voice You Have Not too Stilted
And Technical Sounding A Flavor of Emotions
That Naturally Comes From A Song of A Voice Still Breathing
HeART
As Well
As ‘Stilted
Intellect’ Hehe…
Yeah It’s True Increasingly
The ‘Real World’ Is Becoming
Digitized as the Analog World
of Reality Fades Away More into
The Tools Humans Create and Become
First Words and Now 6 Inch Screens Lost
From the Horizon
Not Understanding
We Have Become
Both the Guinea Pigs
And Scientists of this
“Brave New World’s Experiment”
That Truly Is Only Becoming Weaker
With Less Art in HeART And smART
And Even Lost From Love of EartH
With All Five Senses And Unlimiting
Other Feelings and Senses in Synergy
That Make up continually New Creations
of Emotions We Actually Feel and Sense of
Life Fully From Head to Toe True This is What
Happens When We Become ‘Avatars’ Separated From Nature
Spoon Fed A Digitized Life on Screens Almost From Birth For Yes It is true
We Are More Than Just Eyes and Ears of Intellect in Word Thinking Alone
We Are Wings of Birds And Climbing Dances Free Still of Furry Creatures With Souls
More Than
What’s Left
Over When
Art is Removed
From heART smART
eARTh and Even Part
Yep Basically S And M
eh and P as Even God Becomes A ‘HE’…
Tools Are Great As Long As We Master
Them And Don’t Become Mastered By Them
And Become As Small As A Six Inch Screen With Word Think
As Science Shows What We Believe is Us Our Thinking Mind
Only Comprises About Half of A Percent of Our Human Experiences
of Total Mind
And Body
Being Yes
You Seem Very
Intelligent i Suggest
The Research of Iain McGilchrist
Particularly on YouTube Commercial
Free in 18 Volumes So Far If You are
Interested in What Makes Humans Tick
Who Gives a Really Great Explanation
How Our Minds Work in Processing
Reality Now For Real by Hemispheres
the Left One Grasping At And Materially
Reducing Reality into Limited Order
And Limited Emotions Also
Mostly Related to Control
Fear Anger and All Stuff Related to Hate
Yet the Other More Divine Limitless and Silent
No Longer Reducing Reality So Much Becoming Birds With
Wings Truly Seeing the ‘Overview Effect’ and Affect of All That is
When i Was Shut-in my Bedroom in a Synergy of Life Threat With
19 Medical Disorders for 66 Months Online Provided an Escape for
What Science Identifies is the Worst Pain Known to Humankind Type
Two Trigeminal Neuralgia No Drug Would Touch For me From Wake to Sleep…
i Didn’t Even Want A Cell Phone or Even a Pager at Work Before Then i Wasn’t
the one to Fear Human Interaction or Moving so Much i Couldn’t Visit the Co-worker
in the Next
Office to me Hehe
Stuck Behind A Screen
For the Last 33 Months of
That Stuck Between my Ears
Before i Could Tolerate What Felt like
A Dentist Drill in my Right Eye and Ear
No Drug Would Touch i Found Out What
Use it Or Lose it Means in Life if We Quit Moving
Connecting and Co-Creating In Actual Nature We
Become Separated and Develop NDD Nature Deficit Disorder
Yes Separated From the Full Nature of Being Human And The Rest of Nature too
in the United States Even in Harvard Level Colleges Students report Levels of Life
Limiting Depression at 40 Percent and Life Limiting Anxiety at 60 Percent And Young
Folks Are Assessed as 8 Scale More Depressed Now Than they Were in the Actual
‘Depression’ in the
United States Last
Century as When We
Escape Our Human Natures
And the Rest of Nature We Escape
Who We Even Are As Part of the Earth All Natural
It’s True Humans Have Become Relics of the Future mY FRiEnD
When a Movie Titled ‘Avatar’ Becomes More Realistic Than Living
We’ve Lost
Who We
Even Are With SMiLes
Humans Lost in Future Museums…
Note: Science Assesses the Average
Human Attention Span Now Less than
A Gold Fish Less Than 3 Seconds Even in A Military
Gym With A Source of So Many Quick Hits of Dopamine
A Six Inch Screen Delivers There isn’t Even the Attention
Span to Stay
Focused on
Completing
A Work Out to
Become Stronger
to Move in A Three Dimensional World
‘Soma’ As ‘They’ Say Delivered in a 6 Inch Screen
Obviously i’ve Escaped That Considering the Twitter
And Tik Tok Length of this Comment on Your Blog Hehe…
Yet Note This Tool i Master It is my Slave to Deliver my
Soul Free in Avatar Words Yet i May Dance Away Sing
Naked Enough
Whole Complete
iN Play One
With Nature Free
As A Bird on a Wing
Still Climbing Dance
Living Tree Leaf Roots Vines Singing
Dancing ‘Groot’ On Terrestrial Land i am…
Oh Yeah And At the Military Gym at Age 62
i Warm Up With 699 Kilograms Leg Pressing 12 Reps
With All of my 111 Kilograms of Body Weight in Balance
Weight of
my Finger Tips
As A Foundation
of Loving Grace in Balance
Remove All Fears And Set Us
Free FRiEnDS With Gravity
Maximum Will And Strength
As Divine Feminine Holds
Hands With Divine Masculine
For Real Alive Breathing
What A 6 Inch Screen
Alone Will Never
Do Yet Perhaps
Poetry When
The Screen
is Only Used
As Tool For
Avatar Soul Words to Become
Alchemically in Metaphor Transformed Organic Alive
What Good Is An iRobot World Without Souls Without Souls iNDeed…:)