Significant Objects
...and how they got that way
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Significant Cocktails
There’s a really great account of the triumphant public debut of the Significant Objects, at The Strand on July 10 over on Electric Literature’s Outlet blog, and maybe we’ll say more on that later. But today, we need to take … Continue reading →
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Donation to Girls Write Now
We’ve sent out another check today. Earlier, Significant Objects chose Girls Write Now to receive all proceeds from one of our “volumes” of stories and auctions. We were thrilled to donate over $1,700 to this worthy organization. But today’s check … Continue reading →
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Donation to 826 National
A donation from Significant Objects authors to 826 National. Continue reading →
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Sneak Peek
Last week, Fantagraphics sent us advance copies of Significant Objects, the book. That is to say, the gorgeous book that is bursting at the seams with 100 stories that first appeared on this website! Plus our (semi-)scholarly analysis of the … Continue reading →
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Significant Objects Meme (27)
In a recent Design Observer post, Rick Poynor visits Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence, founded in April of this year by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and flatteringly describes it as “a fabulously extended example of Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn’s ‘Significant … Continue reading →
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Significant Objects Meme (26)
2012 Krug champagne ad…
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Show and Tell at CABINET
Paul Lukas's “Show-and-Tell” is exactly what it sounds like. Continue reading →
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Brian Eno agrees
"We create the value in things. It’s the act of conferring that makes things valuable." Continue reading →
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Significant Objects in Stories
Types of significant object... Continue reading →
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eBay crap
Crap I Bought on eBay Continue reading →
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Never Liked It Anyway
The elevator pitch: Significant Objects meets "Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty." Continue reading →
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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 →
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The Migration of Objects
The Brooklyn-based Proteus Gowanus gallery recently announced an exhibition on "The Migration of Objects." Continue reading →
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Joost Swarte
From the March 21 (2011) New Yorker.
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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.
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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 →
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Pie-shaped Container
[This is the second of two stories created for Significant Objects by participants in Thumbscribes, a collaborative-writing platform. Thumbscribes is auctioning this object here, and will give proceeds to a charity or nonprofit of its choosing.] I had a friend … Continue reading…
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Decorative Egg-shaped Object
[This is the first of two stories created for Significant Objects by participants in Thumbscribes, a collaborative-writing platform. Thumbscribes is auctioning this object here, and will give proceeds to a charity or nonprofit of its choosing.] I was born on … Continue reading →
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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…