[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Betsey Swardlick, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $26. This story is the third in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nomi Kane, here. Original price: 49 cents. Final price: $37. This story is the second in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Josh Kramer, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $76. This story is the first in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $101.05. Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $2,434.22 Coming up this week: In yet another astoundingly cool collaboration, Significant Objects teams up this week with The Center For Cartoon Studies. That’s right — in a special … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bruno Maddox, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $19.50.] Did she love me? Nah. Did I love her? Yeah. So I got her this wooden map of Thailand with four … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Doty, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $76.] As a young man I read a poem I’ve never run across again since. I found it in the school library. … Continue reading
Don’t sleep, people: The deadline for our Significant Objects Story Contest is fast approaching: Submit a 500-word story featuring the object pictured above (a barbecue sauce jar) by Friday Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. That’s tomorrow! As a reminder, our … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Naomi Novik, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31. ] Found at the base of a street lamp near Madison Square Park, beneath a rain-bleached photocopy with a picture of … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by R.K. Scher, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $157.50.] Visitors never fail to ask about my squaw. It’s what I like to call her, although one of those visitors, … Continue reading
You requested an opportunity to write a story for SignificantObjects.com, so here it is: the Significant Objects Story Contest! Submit a 500-word story featuring the object pictured above (a barbecue sauce jar) by next Friday (Oct. 16) at 5 p.m., … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nick Asbury, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $11.61. ] Kenny is a funny clown Kenny is a funny clown. He sees the whole world upside-down. Kenny is my best … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Terese Svoboda, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $15.50.] You are fitting it in between the toilet paper and the shaver accessories, on top of the wart remover and … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Teddy Wayne, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $20.50.] At the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, on a June weekend in 2007, eighty-two men and … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Michael Atkinson, has ended. Original price: 34 cents. Final price: $21.50. ] … Somebody’s grandfather’s pipe stand, back when men smoked pipes that they cared to buy handcrafted out of specific … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $90.97 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $2,141.62 Coming up this week: I’m already a day late with this Weekly Update, so I’ll skip the other formalities and say that this Friday there should be a … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Christopher Sorrentino, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $38.] My parka (Coat, Cold Weather, Men’s, Field, OG-107) hangs from a hook whose shape is in the likeness of Pickwick, of … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by William Gibson, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $101.00] In 1969 my friend’s dad was a Pentagon technocrat. My friend said that when his dad came home with a new … Continue reading
Forgot to mention that we passed $2,000 in sales with the auction of the Cigarette Case + Margot Livesey story. That went for $33.77, putting our grand total at the end of Tuesday at $2,023.96 (for 64 items we purchased … Continue reading
