Comments on: About the Significant Objects project

By: Significant Objects « Jason Baird Jackson

Significant Objects « Jason Baird Jackson — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:56:19 +0000

[...] Significant Objects The material culture studies students at Indiana and I have been engaged in a a very interesting if slow-motion research discussion of Etsy (Your place to buy and sell all things handmade. ™) and its extensions, such Regretsy (Where DIY meets WTF.) Adding to the conversation is Grant McCracken’s recent and interesting post on Meaning Manufacture, Old and New in which he discusses a remarkable project/site called Significant Objects. [...]

By: MegCabot

MegCabot — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:01:41 +0000

[...] A while ago I was asked to be part of the Significant Objects Project. [...]

By: Josh Glenn

Josh Glenn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:51:03 +0000

It’s very difficult for me to believe that anyone thought — even for a moment — that ours was a Salvation Army project — despite our parodic/affectionate version of the SA logo. I wonder if the one or two people who were confused by our red-shield logo also get mixed up when they see someone wearing a t-shirt with the McDonald’s golden arches but it says “Marijuana”? — do they then attempt to score weed at McD’s? Anyway, we’ve decided to change our logo to the red mug version you see at the top of this page. It’s probably a better logo, anyway.

By: Chris Matlashewski

Chris Matlashewski — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:24:21 +0000

I concur with this project. Last year I bought a faux fur coat in St John’s Nfld for $3.50. Last month at after wearing this coat on the beach, jet skiing in it and wearing it out with with just the underwear and promoting its fun, I elected to auction it off for charitable cause and make the coat a annual event, the coat raised $4000.00 for the Royal Lepage Womens Charitable Shelter Foundation. Its all about a story. People always buy into emotion and reason with logic. I love mankind!

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:38:40 +0000

[...] Cool project: http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/05/about-the-significant-objects-project/ [...]

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:21:53 +0000

I will say, otherwise, a fine project…

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:21:12 +0000

Yeah, I’m with Freddy on this. My assumption all along was that the money was going to the Salvation Army, and it wasn’t until I saw his comment that I finally focused in on the logo and saw it was S.I. You need to change that.

By: Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:48:38 +0000

Did you get your idea from Tahir Shah’s In Arabian Nights (2008) Chapter Six? In Omar bin Mohammed’s shop everything is free, but: “If you want to take an item,” he said, “then you have to buy the story attached to it.” … “How much does it cost to hear it?”

“Six hundred dirhams.”

“That’s eighty bucks,” I said. “The chest isn’t worth that.”

“I told you, the objects I’m giving away are not special at all. The chest looks nice but it’s worthless.”

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:49:59 +0000

What a beautiful idea, and what potential. Just one question: what drove the decision to appropriate the Salvation Army’s branding as a basis for the project’s logo? This intrigues me to no end.

By: Rob Walker

Rob Walker — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:28:21 +0000

Hello Julie. We have had many requests from people who want to contribute as writers, and that is very exciting. However, it’s also something we did not anticipate. We are working on a way to accommodate such requests, so please stay tuned to this site and hopefully we will be able to announce something about that soon.