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Shout-out from Girls Write Now

15. March 2010

This nice note appears in the current Girls Write Now newsletter:

The Kasper Hauser Four-Part Story, all in one place

14. March 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 [...]

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-14

14. March 2010

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Miniature cities on household objects: http://bit.ly/bBWWXW # Theory: “a lot of the significance … comes from the fact that [these objects] are featured on the website.” Perhaps! http://bit.ly/b2qSFg # If you haven’t seen, don’t miss Ben Greeman’s invention of 3-D type: http://bit.ly/9TYW8Z #

Experimental fictions of the Web: Your thoughts?

13. March 2010

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Dear discriminating readers: What are your thoughts about these attempts to tell fictional stories via unusual online means: 1. Sumedicina: “Data fiction project. Story telling with information graphics.” (Via Listenerd.) 2. Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge: “A Google Maps Essay, in Which George Plimpton Delivers My Belated and Well-Deserved Comeuppance.” (Actually, as the title indicates, a literary essay. Also via [...]

Significant Objects Meme (4)

12. March 2010

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Obsessive Consumption: What Did you Buy Today? (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), by Kate Bingaman-Burt, represents a selection of three years’ worth of the author’s annotated drawings of her purchases — including wedding bands, beer, a dog, and, of course, drawing supplies. Full disclosure: Princeton Architectural Press also published my 2007 book, Taking Things Seriously. Fast Company’s [...]

Shout-out from 826 National

11. March 2010

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This nice note appears in the current 826 National newsletter:

Today: Our first multi-part story — from Kasper Hauser!

9. March 2010

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Readers, we try to keep things interesting and surprising for you here at Significant Objects, not merely publishing great stories all the time, but throwing a curveball every now and again. We’ve done so by offering stories in comix form, by selling a Mystery Object, by holding a contest or two, by teaming up with [...]

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-07

7. March 2010

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Book spines as wallpaper? That could happen, don’t you think? http://bit.ly/9zVwf3 # “It would seem that even attaching a known fictitious story to an object added enough meaning to warrant the price.” http://bit.ly/cWRmhw # “This anxiety has lead to the accumulation of way too many significant things.” Intriguing project at: http://thethingsikeep.blogspot.com/ # Best Antiques Roadshow segment ever? How much [...]

Weekend reading: Stories about an “egg whisk” on Fictionaut

6. March 2010

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What? Not enough stories about objects in your week? Well then! Check out these entries in the Significant Objects Fictionaut Group, where the following talented writers have all created stories about the above object. Which one do you find to be most Significant? Chime in over on Fictionaut, or let us know here in the comments. We [...]

Announcing the SO Challenge: Spot the Patterns!

6. March 2010

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Years ago, when I was (briefly) a grad student in Sociology, at Boston University, I discovered that positivist science doesn’t offer satisfactory models for synthesizing a cluster of elements that resist reduction to a common denominator, generative first principle, or essential core. Significant Objects now faces this problem. Our efforts to organize our experiment’s data [...]

The Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

4. March 2010

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We’ve mentioned a few other art projects that use eBay as a platform or medium. The idea-based artist Caleb Larsen’s A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a fun one. It’s a significant object — a sculpture, supposedly, though it looks pretty much like a black box with wires running into it — that forever attempts [...]

UNY X S.O. objects in their new home

28. February 2010

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These just came in today — and they’re too amazing to keep to ourselves! Above: Toy Airplane + Robert Lopez Story; below, Mermaid Figurine + Tom McCarthy Story. And check out the amazing story-in-a-found-bottle presentation, courtesy of Underwater New York. Fantastic! As it happens, both of these Significant Objects were purchased by Susan Clements, who shared [...]

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Shout-out from Girls Write Now

The Kasper Hauser Four-Part Story, all in one place

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-14

Experimental fictions of the Web: Your thoughts?

Significant Objects Meme (4)

Shout-out from 826 National

Today: Our first multi-part story — from Kasper Hauser!

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-07

Weekend reading: Stories about an “egg whisk” on Fictionaut

Announcing the SO Challenge: Spot the Patterns!

The Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

UNY X S.O. objects in their new home

* S.O. v3 — for Girls Write Now

S.O. v1 — the EXPERIMENT

S.O. v2 — for 826 National