Bird Figurine
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sung J. Woo, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $52.] Last summer, my wife and I held a barbeque in our back yard. After the event, I saw a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Weekly Project Update
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $55.50. Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $1,176.54. Coming up this week: Objects with Significance added by Rosecrans Baldwin, Matthew Klam, and others. Posting later today: Sung J. Woo. Still on auction: Time is running out … Continue reading
What are the Labors of Worthiness in Colson Whitehead’s story?
If you’ve read the Significance that Colson Whitehead added to his wooden-mallet Object, you must have wondered: What are the Labors of Worthiness? Turns out that he is revealing them, in his Twitter stream. Check it out: @colsonwhitehead.com. The Second … Continue reading
Wooden Mallet
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Colson Whitehead, has ended. Original price: 33 cents. Final price: $71.] On September 16th, 2031 at 2:35 am, a temporal rift – a “tear” in the very fabric of time and … Continue reading
Device
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Bartlett, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $15.50.] From June 1996 to February 1999 I worked as a manager at a well-known electronic supply retailer in a mostly vacant … Continue reading
Grain Thing
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Joanne McNeil, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $20.50.] Among the many misconceptions that prevail about my great-grandfather, Hartford Townes Hastings, the most infuriating is the idea that he was … Continue reading
Russian Figure
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Doug Dorst, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $193.50.] Figurine of St. Vralkomir (glass cover not included) This is an icon of the fourteenth-century Saint Vralkomir of Dnobst, the patron … Continue reading
4-Tile
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Toni Schlesinger, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $88.] “I have something for you,” she says. “For me?” he asks. “For you!” she says. “Wait, waiter, I’ll have a pale … Continue reading
Weekly Project Update
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $50.25 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $1,092.16 Coming up this week: Objects with Significance added by Doug Dorst, Colson Whitehead, and others. Posting later today: Toni Schlesinger. Still on auction: The batch from our collaboration … Continue reading
Project Update: Whither the Hot Dog?
One of my favorite objects, so far, is the Toy Hot Dog about which Jenny Davidson wrote on July 8. My sentiment is of the punk or camp variety, I guess: after all, hot dogs are already grotesque, and wooden … Continue reading
Elvis Chocolate Tin
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jessica Helfand, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $24. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] Harriet squeezed the last … Continue reading
Porcelain Scooter
[The auction for this Significant Object, with song (MP3, and lyrics, below), by Teddy Blanks, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $2.38. This was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] CLICK BUTTON … Continue reading
#1 Mom Hooks
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rachel Berger, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $5.50. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published, here.] In the fall of 1991, … Continue reading
$1,000+
With the conclusion of the auction for the PBR Bottle Opener + Sean Howe story yesterday, this project passed an astonishing milestone: Total sales have surpassed $1,000. Specifically, we’ve sold 35 objects, purchased from thrift stores and yard sales and … Continue reading
Marines (Upside-Down) Logo Mug
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Vanderbilt, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $37. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] If he had a … Continue reading
Star of David Plate
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Adam Harrison Levy, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it is co-published here.] Now that Budd Schulberg … Continue reading
Project Update
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $46.50 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $937.15 Coming up this week: Oh, it’s a big week on Significant Objects, folks: An extra-special week-long collaboration with Design Observer! Five regular contributors to that popular site, including … Continue reading
Rope/Wood Monkey
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kevin Brockmeier, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $41.] I was more or less in love with this girl, and her name was Samantha. I thought I was ugly, … Continue reading
