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Show and Tell at CABINET
Paul Lukas’s “Show-and-Tell” is exactly what it sounds like. Continue reading
Brian Eno agrees
“We create the value in things. It’s the act of conferring that makes things valuable.” Continue reading
Significant Objects in Stories
Types of significant object… Continue reading
eBay crap
Crap I Bought on eBay Continue reading
Never Liked It Anyway
The elevator pitch: Significant Objects meets “Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty.” Continue reading
Check out a high school’s Significant Objects-inspired experiment
Check this out: Inspired by the work of Significant Objects … and how they got that way, Grade 11 students (ELA 20-1) from Wm. E. Hay High School are embarking upon a journey of their own to see where it … Continue reading
The Migration of Objects
The Brooklyn-based Proteus Gowanus gallery recently announced an exhibition on “The Migration of Objects.” Continue reading
Joost Swarte
From the March 21 (2011) New Yorker.
Tweet from Bruce Sterling about our redesign
Bruce Sterling (@bruces) 9/22/11 12:40 PM http://t.co/1vFi6Ev *People are always claiming they’ll archive a dead creative website, but these guys actually did it.
Significant Hiatus
Readers, as we mentioned in passing recently, this site is going to be quiet for a while, as the Significant Objects team holes up in its secret laboratory facilities to make the final tweaks and arrangements leading up to the … Continue reading
Two objects, two stories — and a dozen writer contributions
Readers, as you know, the initial Significant Objects experiment hewed to the strict scientific standards necessary to demonstrate our initial hypothesis: that narrative, even 100% invented narrative, can add measurable value to formerly valueless things. When our project unexpectedly turned … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-12-05
Houston high school library throws out books, makes way for coffee and couches. http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2fbc # Rosemary Williams documents everything she owns, in "Belongings." http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2dkd # "Tongue" bookmark: http://tumblr.com/xr4yvjvdq # Claim: "Amazon's amateur book-reviewing becomes vicious free-for-all." http://tumblr.com/xr4yv6do2 # A book … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-28
BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary project" – Boing Boing http://t.co/M8lllTY # Photographer Hong Hao's "My Things" project, arranging 20 years … Continue reading
Significant Objects Meme (25)
Rob Walker’s Unconsumption tumblr recently mentioned PASS THE BATON, a Japanese on- and offline retail concept that updates the thrift store experience by adding — yes, you guessed it! — meaningful narrative to castoff items. *** For more evidence of the … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving!
… from your friends at Significant Objects.
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-21
'The Novelist's Lexicon': 77 writers each choose 1 word that "creates a window their work." http://lat.ms/b0LWfe # Art project goal: "Object That Remains A Dream" (Pics) – @PSFK http://t.co/V0M1bkL # DailyLit, a service that let’s you read books by email … Continue reading
