Liminal Objects: permanent things from temporary moments

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the dude who made the frutiger aero vid is now doing the exact same thing he criticized in that vid lmao. just add liminal to more buzzwords to get that ad revenue buddy im sure that this is going to age like milk.

I feel like Hillary 2016 (like Gore 2000) isn't necessarily liminal. Simply because of the historic significance of the elections and the fact that they both won the popular vote. I'd say that campaign literature and merch is still relevant today.
I still have an Elizabeth Warren 2020 sticker on my car. Now that is liminal.

historians love the idea of the liminal

This makes me want 2018 NCAA Tourney Virginia merch

Just so struck by Kim Campbell being the example of a mostly meaningless, transitional Prime Minister in Canada. Because she is still the only woman to ever be our Prime Minister. I already knew we sucked, having only one female leader take the top job, but, if this is how she's viewed, we suck even more than I think. My inner feminist isn't that surprised.

Wow man i thought we were friends but i guess not. I suppose ill just have to get my para social relationship relationships from someone else!

Please don't pander to others and drop calling us your friends. I guess if i don't know your name, we're not actually friends.

Great vid!

Relocated sports teams/defunct leagues are very liminal. I always get a joy out of seeing memorabilia/apparel for stuff like the Montreal Expos, World Championship Wrestling, the XFL or the Hartford Whalers.

My favorite example is a globe made shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union where the post-Soviet countries were labelled as the "Commonwealth of Independent States"

Going off of the Washington Football Team example, the formerly Oakland Athletics are basically a liminal team with no location while they're waiting to get to Las Vegas.

It would be cool to see all the headlines from newspapers during COVID again

Another great JJ video!

One of my favorite “liminal objects” are maps and globes. It’s fun to try to guess when they were made just by using the country names and borders that were used

edit: especially interesting as the physical earth is rarely changing in any meaningful way, just the ways we as humans have generally agreed to parcel it out

One of my favorite types of liminal objects is old promo stuff for Nintendo DS games or old pamphlets from “COLLECT THEM ALL!” action figure lines

Brasil had a virtual transitional currency between 93-94 called URV (real value unity) which issue the printing of daily conversion tables until the full implementation of the Real

First time I see someone else collecting failed political campaign memorabilia. Each elections I collect and keep all the pamphlets and I always trie to have some goodies such as my collector "Fillon 2017" T-shirt.

The Onion had an article where an African village thanks the Buffalo Bills for the t-shirts over the years. True champions the villagers thought. 

I found a Chicago Bears Super Bowl XLI Champions t-shirt at a Goodwill. If anyone is interested. I was like, "Wait, have I missed something? 2007? They've only won in 1995" If every shirt like this were released into the wild, it would be chaos. People would get punched. Perhaps they are finding their way back from Africa.

Nor sure if they count as liminal, but contrafactual history has that vibe. And someone wins the Super Bowl. I think that was also an Onion headline.

In Australia, the national rugby league had a brief “Pride round” complete with rainbow themed jerseys. There was a high profile scandal where 8 players from the Manly Sea Eagles refused to wear the rainbow and boycotted the game. The players were all Polynesian, so the team and the league were hesitant to fire the players or anything else that could make them look racist or culturally intolerant to the massive Polynesian community in the game. Instead, the eagles played that week without 8 of their players and lost. Pride round would not return to the NRL and the whole episode is now seen as an embarrassing failed experiment. The jerseys were taken off the market by the team and the few that were sold to the public fetch a high price on eBay. I think they serve as a good “liminal object”. A brief period of optimism that the game had for its future before they were swiftly reminded how regressive a lot of their fan base still is.

Very interesting… sips from official Biden 2024 coffee mug