Hrag Vartanian

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Ancestors of the iPod?

December 17, 2008 by hv

I spotted these coin displays at the U.S. Mint in New Orleans, LA and Veken & I couldn’t help but think they look a hell of a lot like today’s iPod.

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Filed Under: American, design, pop culture

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  1. libhomo says

    December 19, 2008 at 2:04 am

    That reminds me that IPods look a lot like voltmeters.

    Off topic: Are you involved with the Brooklyn Rail? If so, good on you.

  2. hv says

    December 19, 2008 at 2:22 am

    I’ve wriiten for the Rail since 2002…do you read it?

  3. madeleine says

    December 19, 2008 at 11:26 am

    It’s crazy how occasionally one come across items that could have/perhaps did, serve as the genesis for items that then become ubiquitous.

    I once stumbled across the published sketchbook of an artist from the 60s-70s whose drawings look suspiciously similar to Jonathan Adler’s animal menagerie.

    Funny how things like that happen…

  4. libhomo says

    December 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    hv: I read it occasionally. I read it regularly when I lived in Brooklyn.

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