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On Connecticut Public Radio’s “Where We Live”
A quick note: I just did a short interview about S.O. (and objects and value and story) on Where We Live, with John Dankonsky, on Connecticut Public Radio. I chimed in for about the last 15 minutes, in what I believe was an hour-long segment with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works: The New [...]
Continue reading...Epistolary Week Significant Objects In Their New Homes
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Above, and after the jump, the latest additions to our Significant Objects Owners Photo Pool: Two from the recent Epistolary Week series.
Continue reading...Save 20% on the Significant Objects limited-edition print!
Friday, June 25, 2010
UPDATE: This sale has been extended until Tuesday at 11:59 pm. Technically, I guess you can save 20% on any 20X200 order of $50 or more, but you’ll feel good about yourself for buying one of the ones created for us, because proceeds go to Girls Write Now. Concise details: Enter code RIDONK at checkout for 20% [...]
Continue reading...Epistolary Week concludes…
Friday, June 25, 2010
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Thanks everybody for reading the stories and bidding on the objects and helping spread the word on our Epistolary Week series, guest-curated by Ben Greenman. In five short days we converted $3.50 worth of thrift-store flotsam into a sweet $229 donation to the good people of One Story. Be sure to check out Ben’s book, What [...]
Continue reading...(Not) Naming names: Would you buy an anonymous creation?
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
We already know, thanks to this project, that people will buy a near-worthless doodad for much more than its free-market value after it’s given a completely invented narrative. But how important is the identity of the narrative-maker? In other words: Would Significant Objects still sell if we didn’t tell you who our authors are? Here’s why [...]
Continue reading...Counting down: Five auctions to go….
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Here’s where things stand as of… well, as of when I took this screen grab. These are the last five auctions of S.O. v3, proceeds to Girls Write Now. Own a piece of this project, and support a great cause. If you don’t, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Just saying. Our shop is [...]
Continue reading...Significant Objects X Kate Bingaman-Burt X 20×200 — now available!
Friday, April 16, 2010
I teased this last week — and now it’s here! We’re really excited to announce the latest S.O. team-up, resulting in thoroughly affordable art, and another way to support v3 beneficiary Girls Write Now. The prints you see on this page are available in limited editions from 20×200, Jen Bekman’s online project that sells a dazzling [...]
Continue reading...Updates: iPhone app, art show, and $1,000-plus for Girls Write Now
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Three pieces of exciting news: 1. Our friends over at Electric Literature dropped a line to let us know they have created “mini-book of our Significant Objects on the iPhone. It’s free content, and the app is free.” How cool is that? Follow this link to get the free E.L./S.O. iPhone app from iTunes. And since [...]
Continue reading...Significant Objects X Kate Bingaman-Burt X 20×200!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
We’ve hinted at various cool stuff that we’re up to that’s in the offing and that we can’t quite share details about yet. And now we’re doing it again! But listen: You must have heard about 20×200 by now — the online art gallery that lets you “discover great artists at an affordable price”? And maybe you also [...]
Continue reading...Significant Objection
Saturday, March 20, 2010
I’m a big fan of BBC Radio’s A History of the World In 100 Objects series, so I am supremely disappointed and irked that my attempt to join in the series’ interactive Web feature invitation to “add your object” to a kind of crowd-curated collection has been rejected! I was inspired in part by this video [...]
Continue reading...The Kasper Hauser Four-Part Story, all in one place
Sunday, March 14, 2010
A request came in to make this available in one easy-to-access post/link. Here it is. This is our unprecedented four-part, four-object, four-auction story. This is an incredibly difficult task to pull off, but we got the four members of Kasper Hauser to assemble what we think is a really wonderful extended piece. Pencil Case + Rob [...]
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Raised for worthy nonprofits. Details here.
Current auction proceeds benefit One Story.
Buy a print and support Girls Write Now! Proceeds from this super-affordable set of limited-edition prints by Kate Bingaman-Burt, on behalf of Significant Objects v3, via 20X200, benefit this nonprofit that mentors at-risk young women in New York City. Details here.
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- Insignificant Object
- Wooden Animal
- The future (?) of Significant Objects (Part Two)
- Experimental Data
- Update: Significant Objects/Slate story contest
- "Hawk" Ashtray
- Another contest? Yes! Significant Objects X SmithMag's Six Words
- Ladies and Gentlemen: the Data
- The Significant Objects Mug Mug
- Uncola Glass
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- Joshua Glenn: Congratulations to Tom McCarthy — his novel C...
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- The Significant Objects Bookstore
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S.O. v1 — the EXPERIMENT
- * CLICK HERE for all 100 authors from SO v1
- Annalee Newitz
- Ben Katchor
- Bruce Sterling
- Cintra Wilson
- Colson Whitehead
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- David Shields
- Doug Dorst
- Jonathan Lethem
- Kate Bernheimer
- Kurt Andersen
- Lydia Millet
- Matthew Klam
- Matthew Sharpe
- Meg Cabot
- Merrill Markoe
- Myla Goldberg
- Nicholson Baker
- Rob Baedeker
- Sheila Heti
- Shelley Jackson
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Stewart O'Nan
- Toni Schlesinger
- William Gibson
S.O. v2 — for 826 National
- * CLICK HERE for all 50 authors from SO v2
- Alissa Nutting
- Amy Fusselman
- Annie Nocenti
- Barbara Bogaev
- Bob Powers
- Carl Wilson
- Chris Adrian
- Deb Olin Unferth
- Debbie Millman
- Douglas Wolk
- Gary Panter
- Joe Lyons
- Julie Klausner
- Kathryn Davis
- Luc Sante
- Margaret Wertheim
- Mark Jude Poirier
- Martha McPhee
- Mimi Lipson
- Neil LaBute
- Philip Graham
- Rachel Axler
- Sam Means
- Tom McCarthy
- Wayne Koestenbaum
S.O. v3 — for Girls Write Now
- * CLICK HERE for all 50 authors from SO v3
- Ben Greenman
- Blake Butler
- Carole Maso
- Christine Hill
- Damion Searls
- Dara Horn
- Heidi Julavits
- Helen DeWitt
- Jenny Offill
- Jim Shepard
- Justin Taylor
- Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
- Maaza Mengiste
- Marisa Silver
- Matt Brown
- Matt Sumell
- Miranda Mellis
- Rick Moody
- Ron Currie Jr.
- Scarlett Thomas
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Stephen O'Connor
- Susanna Daniel
- Trinie Dalton
- Wesley Stace
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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