Comments on: Top Ten Sales To Date

By: St. Eutychus » Significant Objects: How to bump up your eBay sales with a story

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:26:33 +0000

[...] out their top ten. Here’s an [...]

By: Top Ten Sales — Updated | Significant Objects

Top Ten Sales — Updated | Significant Objects — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:13 +0000

[...] Back in mid-September, we paused to assess our list of published stories (and concluded auctions) to see which 10 objects have sold for the most money to date. In part this was to see if the exercise would help us refine our hypothesis about how narrative makes objects Significant. And in part it was because everybody loves a Top Ten List. Here is that list. [...]

By: Update: a note about our classifications | Significant Objects

Update: a note about our classifications | Significant Objects — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:15:54 +0000

[...] month, in an update, I explained our Significant Object categorization scheme: a FOSSIL is an object that bears witness [...]

By: Significant Dishware | Significant Objects

Significant Dishware | Significant Objects — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:13:46 +0000

[...] None of the objects pictured in this post are among this experiment’s Top Ten highest-selling objects. Several figurines made it onto that list, but not one piece of dishware. [...]

By: No. 63 — of 100. | Significant Objects

No. 63 — of 100. | Significant Objects — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:37:54 +0000

[...] are some remarkable bargains (given past prices) in the shop right now, including objects with stories by author Myla Goldberg, Daily Show writer [...]

By: Object + Made-up story = Advertising?

Object + Made-up story = Advertising? — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:41:21 +0000

[...] Long ago, advertising might mean a page of a magazine with a big hunk of text that often read quite a bit like a short story. Nowadays a brand like Axe, or Burger King, tells its “story” in what Henry Jenkins calls a “transmedia” manner: Across multiple platforms, in ways that might sense however you encounter them, but that are simultaneously cumulative. In fact I think marketers are way ahead of the entertainment industry (Jenkins’ focus) in transmedia storytelling, even if the branding version of it basically shrugs off linearity. The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, for instance, posits a line of facial creams and whatnot as embodying a set of ideas about the nature of beauty itself, expressed via billboards and commercials, but also via text-message voting schemes, media appearances by its participating models, at least one stage play, and other murketing tactics. The “story” has no beginning, and no end. (It will probably stop at some point, but there will be no finale.) But there’s always a story of some kind — and in fact I’ll but the story always fits the Totem, Talisman, Evidence, and/or Fossil categories that my Significant Objects partner Joshua Glenn has defined. [...]

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:00:22 +0000

Mort — or should we call you Cape Cod Shoe? — thanks for the comments. We might have to quote you in our press materials.

Anyone else have any theories?

By: mort

mort — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:40:49 +0000

…mementos, eh…perhaps they represent a tangible, playful nexus between reader and author…physical quirks from the silly hall of human nature…embodiments to remind us of that precious, unfailing spirit, if you build it, they will come…crutches four overcoming silence and distance…writing muses for mother’s sons in darkened basements…conversation pieces for conversations that best play out only in our minds…or maybe the buyer of that cow vase just needed a toothbrush holder really bad…and i wouldn’t give you two cents for a bald, old kneeling man ; )