Comments on: Popsicle-stick Construction http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/27/popsicle-stick-construction/ ...and how they got that way Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Laura http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/27/popsicle-stick-construction/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 Laura Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:14:25 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=261#comment-1782 I wish I had come across the site sooner. Thanks. I wish I had come across the site sooner. Thanks.

]]> By: Joshua Glenn http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/27/popsicle-stick-construction/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Joshua Glenn Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:21:42 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=261#comment-248 The bidding on this object has been slow to take off -- I wonder why? This is, of course, exactly the sort of phenomenon we're curious about. Does it have something to do with the story? (It's the only one we've published whose narrator is not only fictional, but a character from a graphic novel. Plus: Maybe readers are grossed out by the fact that the narrator claims to have licked each popsicle stick?) Or does the reluctance to bid have to do with the object itself? (It's the only "craft" object we've featured - the <a href="http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/22/tin-ark/" rel="nofollow">Tin Ark</a> was folk art - and it's an amateurish example of craft, at best.) Fascinating! Wonder what will happen over the weekend. Of course, my posting this comment might be a Hawthorne Effect-like example of a researcher inadvertently affecting the outcome of the experiment... The bidding on this object has been slow to take off — I wonder why? This is, of course, exactly the sort of phenomenon we’re curious about. Does it have something to do with the story? (It’s the only one we’ve published whose narrator is not only fictional, but a character from a graphic novel. Plus: Maybe readers are grossed out by the fact that the narrator claims to have licked each popsicle stick?) Or does the reluctance to bid have to do with the object itself? (It’s the only “craft” object we’ve featured – the Tin Ark was folk art – and it’s an amateurish example of craft, at best.) Fascinating! Wonder what will happen over the weekend. Of course, my posting this comment might be a Hawthorne Effect-like example of a researcher inadvertently affecting the outcome of the experiment…

]]> By: Debrarian http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/27/popsicle-stick-construction/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Debrarian Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:01:25 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=261#comment-231 You have to stay once you've chosen an activity - oh man, that captures one of those boundaries of kidworld with such apt resignation. I can exactly remember that itchy feeling. Also the ending made me snort. I like this kid. You have to stay once you’ve chosen an activity – oh man, that captures one of those boundaries of kidworld with such apt resignation. I can exactly remember that itchy feeling.

Also the ending made me snort. I like this kid.

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