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 … Continue reading
Down to the last two items from our Epistolary Week special series, guest curated by Ben Greenman. Bid here. And check out the other project related to Ben’s What He’s Poised To Do: It’s called Letters With Character, and aims … Continue reading
Techdirt, which has long been one of the most insightful observers of Significant Objects, offers up the first analysis we’ve seen of how our forthcoming book adds to this project’s consideration of narrative , things, and value: [The original experiment] … Continue reading
Hey readers in New York City: Tonight, Ben Greenman, guest curator of our special Epistolary Week, has a special event tonight in connection with his just-released book, What He’s Poised To Do. The New Yorker explains: He’ll be joined by … Continue reading
“Fictopedia is an online encyclopedia of user-generated, fictional information.” http://bit.ly/a3ctMd # Nice entry about our One Story (@onestorymag) benefit/team up on their blog: http://bit.ly/9efZMq # Stereotyping people by their favorite author: http://bit.ly/a2lv03 # Significant Objects, Antiques Roadshow: “There is a … Continue reading
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
