Comments on: Sanka Ashtray

By: Significant Ads: The Sanka Ashtray | Significant Objects

Significant Ads: The Sanka Ashtray | Significant Objects — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:11:27 +0000

[...] get in front of you today. Two happen to involve one of our very first Significant Objects — Sanka Ashtray + Story By Luc Sante. Diana Hernandez made a very cool print ad that struck me as being really “classic” in [...]

By: Checking in with Significant Objects - Fictionaut Blog

Checking in with Significant Objects - Fictionaut Blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:59:34 +0000

[...] the first phase of the project, we had 100 writers (William Gibson, Luc Sante, Bruce Sterling, Myla Goldberg, Meg Cabot, many others) create fictions based upon bric-a-brac [...]

By: Insignificant Object | Significant Objects

Insignificant Object | Significant Objects — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:19 +0000

[...] single object shown in the photo above flouts one of our guidelines. The Sanka Ashtray (the very first story we published) is a promotional item. The Pen Stand is an example of [...]

By: gameplaywright.net // story, games, together

gameplaywright.net // story, games, together — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:08 +0000

[...] this way, a $1.00 ashtray is sold for $17.79, a $1.00 creamer-pouring porcelain cow is sold for $26.00, and a $0.75 jar and brush for basting [...]

By: SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE » Blog Archive » Object Economies: Beyond a Great Depression

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:23:48 +0000

[...] participated or plan to participate, including speculative fiction writer Bruce Sterling, critic Luc Sante, and our own Open Space columnist Michelle [...]

By: The Stuff of Fiction: Significant Objects Project | HarperStudio

The Stuff of Fiction: Significant Objects Project | HarperStudio — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:28:40 +0000

[...] a rhino figurine all have in common? They are all the subjects of stories by writers like Ed Park, Luc Sante, Curtis Sittenfeld and Lydia Millet – stories featured in the Significant Objects [...]

By: Project update: The first Significant Objects auctions have ended (much more to come) | Significant Objects

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:36:37 +0000

[...] the opening price is the amount we paid for the object at a thrift store, yard sale, or whatever. The Sanka ashtray with story by Luc Sante was priced at $1, ultimately sold for $17.79. Matthew Battles wrote about a Candyland labyrinth [...]

By: Josh Glenn

Josh Glenn — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:47:01 +0000

Only a few hours left to bid on the Sanka Ashtray!

By: Significant Objects: The first stories (and bids)

Significant Objects: The first stories (and bids) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:13:13 +0000

[...] Sante writes about a Sanka ashtray, for sale [...]

By: Josh Glenn

Josh Glenn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:16:33 +0000

With just under 3 days left to go, this item is now selling for $10.50 — starting price $1. So Luc Sante’s narrative has multiplied the item’s value ten-fold, so far. Pretty cool! Get your bids in…

By: The Significant Objects project | dv8-designs

The Significant Objects project | dv8-designs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:40:46 +0000

[...] objects bought by the curators at garage sales and thrift stores. A smiling mug. A Sanka ashtray. A JFK bust. Then, we would write a short story about the object. Whatever we liked. A fiction. [...]

By: Clicklist: Money, literature and significance | green LA girl

Clicklist: Money, literature and significance | green LA girl — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:27:46 +0000

[...] themselves — and the high bidders also get a copy of their stories. To the right’s one of the objects, whose story begins withh “Only now do I feel free to tell my part in the theft of the famed [...]

By: brian

brian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:38:12 +0000

Since the story is about metamorphosis, I believe McDrain became McGruff, the crime dog.

By: Kaffee Hag

Kaffee Hag — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:48:34 +0000

If it hadn’t been for all that decaffeinated Sanka, Ms Furgarden would never have nodded off in front of the TV.

By: Roscoe Furgarden

Roscoe Furgarden — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:55:35 +0000

That was you who took my favorite ashtray! You bastards!

By: Mildred Swing

Mildred Swing — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:28:58 +0000

I’m sorry about your broken teeth. Contact me c/o General Delivery, George Town, Grand Cayman Island for full restitution.

By: Geoff Edgers

Geoff Edgers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:19:44 +0000

You fool! Look closely inside the iconic font – Reninga OT(?) – used to push this revolutionary, decaffeinated drink of leisure. Can’t you see the crystals? That’s how the Furgardens tried to hide the Light of the East diamond. And you dumped it into a Goodwill box. Good enough for you. Now a priceless gem is likely residing in my cousin Murray’s room at the YMCA. Bollocks.