An interactive Stuff Porn site…
Here’s a nice note from Lisa Peet, posted to the Open Letters blog LIKE FIRE, about the Significant Objects/Electric Lit teamup going on this week.
ABOUT the PROJECT
Another Radium-Age SF story contest!
In January, I announced a micro-fiction contest over at HiLobrow.com, an intellectual/literary website that I edit with Matthew Battles. We recently appointed Patrick Cates the site’s Magister Ludi (Master of Games), and yesterday Mr. Cates announced a second micro-fiction contest. … Continue reading
Significant Objects X Electric Literature!
We are pleased to announce our latest collaboration — this week Significant Objects brings you five objects and five stories curated by the mighty Electric Literature. This is exciting for us for several reasons. Let’s start with the writers that … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-21
Our friends @girlswritenow note next event 3/26 w/ guest author Nami Mun. Deets: http://bit.ly/cvwlZw # PS, I hadn’t heard of Abe’s Penny, but it looks great: http://bit.ly/8ZSJL2. Monthly postcard micro-pub! (also on twitter, @abespenny) # “intrepid folks trying new things”, … Continue reading
Significant Objection
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 … Continue reading
Shout-out from Girls Write Now
This nice note appears in the current Girls Write Now newsletter:
The Kasper Hauser Four-Part Story, all in one place
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 … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-14
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 … Continue reading
Experimental fictions of the Web: Your thoughts?
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 … Continue reading
Significant Objects Meme (4)
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 … Continue reading
Shout-out from 826 National
This nice note appears in the current 826 National newsletter:
Today: Our first multi-part story — from Kasper Hauser!
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, … Continue reading
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-07
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 … Continue reading
Weekend reading: Stories about an “egg whisk” on Fictionaut
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 … Continue reading
Announcing the SO Challenge: Spot the Patterns!
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 … Continue reading
The Tool to Deceive and Slaughter
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 … Continue reading
UNY X S.O. objects in their new home
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. … Continue reading
Top 25 sales, Vols 1 & 2
Our data analysis to date has focused largely on Volume 1. But for fun, here’s an integrated top 25: The highest prices from the 150 (!) Significant Objects auctions that have closed to date. Questions? Comments? Let us know.
