Posted in Collections, Objects, People, Video on Nov 17th, 2011 2 Comments »
I have this “disease” and there’s a very fine line between hoarding lots of stuff looking for patterns and the kind of high end collecting these folks do. Each class of collecting (hooding and high end collecting) has its extremes. What these folks do that I haven’t done yet is curate their collections; my various [...]
Posted in Collections, iPhone Photography, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
1000memories A free social site for organizing old family photographs and building relationships between them. It even has a family tree/genealogy component that allows you to build familial relationships into the stored images. There’s an iPhone app called ShoeBox for scanning/photographing and organizing content for 1000memories. This actually looks pretty good and I might give [...]
Posted in Collections, Photographers, Social Software on Oct 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Flickr user Ewald Mario Bauer has assembled a number of flickr galleries which are collections of images that others have taken and allowed to be included in the galleries of other flickr members. Ewald Mario Bauer’s Flickr Galleries Note the page numbering on the bottom, there are 14 pages of them. Frankly, I never looked [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Creativity, People, Video on Sep 9th, 2011 No Comments »
One Plastic Beach from High Beam Media on Vimeo. What appeals to me about this is less the finished pieces, more the collecting, sorting, playing. Note the 128 megapixel camera on a stand for documenting it. These two really have done amazing work over a long period of time. Gary, this one’s for you. I [...]
Posted in Collections, Patterns, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Katsuya Kamo Tod Selby has a great collection of images of the house and studio of Katsuya Kamo, hairstylist in Tokyo. His collections are spectacular as is Tod’s photography capturing it.
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Ideas, People, Process, Video on Aug 5th, 2011 2 Comments »
An Illustrated Life from DannyGregory on Vimeo. Gregory’s Art of Breakfast led me to his book An Illustrated Life which looks fantastic.
Posted in Art and Design, Collections on Jun 29th, 2011 No Comments »
One nation’s love affair with matchbooks Collecting matchbox labels is called phillumeny; its obsessive proponents are phillumenists. One reason there are so many phillumenists is because there are untold matchbox (and matchbook) graphics that can be found in virtually all corners of the globe. I am a phillumenist; I have thousands of matchboxes and book [...]
Posted in Collections, Objects, Photographers on Apr 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
flickr user sarcoptiform has a wonderful collection of everyday objects. The above set of take out beverage lids is one example, here’s the whole set: Tea Tags, Etc. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Collections, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Mar 10th, 2011 No Comments »
NYT Editor Says It’s Only Journalism When He Does It I love it. Matthew Ingram’s Gigaom piece was aggregated by the New York Times and the piece is about Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times looking down on aggregation as theft. The piece is brilliant. Here’s the piece that set Matthew [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Ideas on Nov 30th, 2010 6 Comments »
In the 1980′s I was involved with an art movement that involved sending things through the worldwide postal system. The movement and the objects sent in the mail are both called Mail Art. Remember, there was only a fledgling internet back then, no web like we have it now and the postal service was our [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Objects on Oct 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Things Organized Neatly Wonderful photography, design, web design. The index grows as you scroll. Click on an image to see it bigger. Reminds me of A Collection a Day. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Collections, People, Photographers, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Alain Delorme’s Totems The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, [...]
Posted in Collections, Objects, Photographers on Sep 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
Flotsam and Jetsam Peter Tonningsen’s collection of everyday objects washed up on the shore in and around San Francisco, California. The collection is beautifully photographed scanned and displayed in nine panel grids.
Posted in Collections, Food, Photographers, Travel on Sep 7th, 2010 No Comments »
A Taste of Home in Foil Packets and Powder Each year, among the countries with troops in Afghanistan — the current number is 47 — tens of millions of dollars are spent researching how to fit the most calories, nutrition and either comfort or fun into a small, light package. The menus and accompaniments are [...]
Posted in Collections, Ideas, Objects, People, Photographers on Aug 16th, 2010 9 Comments »
Flickr member Jason Travis has photographed a variety of people in and around Atlanta, Georgia and an inventory of what they carry and created a great collection of these diptychs: Persona. Here’s Jason’s Persona self-portrait: Great stuff, beautifully executed.
Posted in Collections, Photo Resources, Photojournalism, Places on Jun 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Harry Ransom Center unveils the Magnum Archive Vish Vishvanath has written a wonderful appreciation to this most important archive of historic Magnum photographs that was bought by Michael Dell and loaned to the University of Texas at Austin and are now open to the pubic. [via Lensculture]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Creativity, Ideas, Objects on May 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Between blogs like Peter Nencini’s and Lisa Congdon’s A Collection a Day I’m finally seeing a focus for my ongoing interest in both collecting and attempting to document my collections. There is also a connection to scrapbooking here. In a way, this work pulls me back to my interest in the work of Joseph Cornell, [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Ideas on May 11th, 2010 3 Comments »
A Collection a Day Fantastic documentation of a variety of collections of everyday objects and ephemera. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, iPad, Objects, Reading on May 8th, 2010 14 Comments »
I knew it was just a matter of time before I bought an iPad although I thought it would be a bit more time, like maybe a year so I could get version two. At the same time that I’ve learned about the technical intricacies of computers I’ve gotten the most out of them when [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects on Apr 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I used to collect these things but then when I lost one to TSA just after 9/11 I stopped. No hard feelings, just can’t always remember to leave these things at home. Note the various one handed knives, the thin French fruit testing knife and the black Kershaw with the Damascus (folded steel) [...]
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