Dear Significant Objects Readers and Prospective Significant Objects Buyers, My new book of stories, What He’s Poised To Do (Harper Perennial, June 20), is about letters and letter-writing. In the stories, people use letters to embrace other people, or to … Continue reading
Transport III with Underwater New York, June 12: artwork inspired by the city’s underwater landscape, more. http://bit.ly/bBgIZK # This is not quite as exciting as a book announcement, but we're No. 29 on Trendhunter's list of 33 Awesome Auctions. http://bit.ly/dsFnJV … Continue reading
Readers, you’ve waited patiently for new Significant Objects and stories, while we squared away some of the preliminary details on our forthcoming book, and labored to complete a few of the various unrelated tasks that enable us to pay our … Continue reading
SEATTLE, WA — Since its debut, Significant Objects, the bold online inquiry into the relationship between narrative and the value of everyday objects, has been the subject of speculation by everyone from NPR to litbloggers to The New York Times’ … Continue reading
Wieden & Kennedy retail concept, "as inspired by Significant Objects." http://bit.ly/9bP9Z1 # "An infinite good (the story) being used to make a scarce good (the trinket) much more valuable." Useful summary. http://bit.ly/c8SGhT # The joy of outdated facts: http://nyti.ms/dp8FyL # … Continue reading
The Index — a storefront gallery in Brooklyn — is a collection of materials and objects whose purposes, characters, and origins are fascinating to curator Jonathan Roquemaure. As Cool Hunting recently explained: While each object’s uncommon looks are compelling enough on … Continue reading
June 5th is the deadline to enter HiLobrow’s OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE short-short story contest. Prize money will be donated to a good cause! THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town or city where you live, … Continue reading
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: … Continue reading
Gallery of “homely tools.” : http://bit.ly/b2tvDc # Cory Doctorow makes the case that these Pulitzer winners are basically fanfic: http://bit.ly/9YY4iT # Via @emlegendary: Box of objects, for iphone. Vanitas http://ow.ly/1QmMF Pretty cool! # Phone booth converted to “world’s smallest library.” … Continue reading
Between October of last year and February of this one, the curators of Significant Objects parsed the data from the project’s first, experimental phase in the following thirteen ways. We classified the 100 object-stories in our experiment as talismans, totems, … Continue reading
With three full volumes and a whopping 200 stories published, it’s time once again to revise and update the the list of the “Top 25″ Significant Object auction prices paid to date. Actually, owing to a tie for the 25th … Continue reading
So far, we’ve published 200 stories here at Significant Objects — the batch of 100 that made up our original experimental inquiry into the nature of value and narrative, and two sequel batches of 50 stories each, benefiting 826 National … Continue reading
Is S.O. "a lark or some sort of long-term effort to come up with new revenue streams for writers?" http://bit.ly/acfFOq # Support the Center for Biological Diversity — stop oil well spills! Submit a micro-story: http://bit.ly/HiLoOilSpillFic # Guy polls 246 … Continue reading
Over at our sister site, HiLobrow, Patrick Cates has announced a new microfiction contest. The theme: OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE. Prize money will be donated to a good cause! THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town … Continue reading
This is the eighth in an occasional series of updates about our nearly 200 Significant Objects authors. We’re publishing these while we work on various Significant Objects-related projects about which you’ll hear more soon. In the meantime, read SO v1 … Continue reading
Liz Danzico’s “text playlist”: http://bit.ly/av23Pu # Science Friday segment on hoarding has some good moments. http://bit.ly/bMkF3L # 10 Most harmful novels for aspiring writers: http://bit.ly/bRiFUP # [NOTE: Significant Objects does endorse the views expressed in this link. It’s just a … Continue reading
In a great post on a writing epiphany, @maudnewton reveals what she’ll do with an S.O. she bought (before long, we bet) http://bit.ly/aYkIqy # A blog devoted to “only the worst sci-fi/fantasy book covers.” http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/ # Laura Miller on gender … Continue reading
Thank you readers, writers, and bidders, for another successful volume of Significant Objects! Our final v3 auction concluded moments ago. Between February 22 and today, we’ve used 50 stories by our talented contributors to convert a trifling $58.28 worth of … Continue reading
