cheriji replied to your post “i got paid just to look at first editions of virginia woolf novels...”
what's the archival skateboard
so in the library there’s the downtown collection, which is basically all this art and books and stuff from artists/writers/etc who used to live in greenwich village (before like...gentrification lol)
and this collection is full of some...pretty weird stuff because it’s all from artists in greenwich village from the 1970s onward. and among those weird things are some less weird things: really big books, protest pins, an artbook from the occupy movement...
but then there is also just like. this skateboard. that has its own shelf and everything. has a little tag tied to the wheel with ribbon. it has all these stickers on it and someone stenciled “FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA” on the top. idk that much about it but its rlly neat.
but the best part about it is that, because it’s not in a museum and it’s in an archive, the interactions that people can have with it aren’t “wow look at that skateboard in that display case” but are instead “hey can i have this skateboard placed on a table in front of me so i can study it and learn stuff about it?” because all of those stickers indicate who knew who in the radical skateboarding scene of 1983 or whatever. which is like. really fucking cool imo
