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- CraftyPod » A delightful zine about The Borrowers: Neat.
- What A Coincidence! Personal Connections Improve Sales: “If a salesperson shares a birthday or a birthplace with you, you’re more likely to make a purchase and feel good about it, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.” The basic not-at-all-new finding that underlies this was memorialized in a 48-Hour-T-Shirt. But still.
- Hipster Runoff Exegesis: 10 August 2009: “Carles Presents ‘IAmCarles.com’”: “Design is propaganda for the object, for materiality as such, and for the predominance of the material over the spiritual, positing ideality as a quality of materiality rather than the salvation from it. Carles, by posing as a budding designer, proclaims a radically materialist philosophy that denies transcendence as an ideal.” This is excellent. (Although only you if care about Hipster Runoff, I guess — or at least know what it is.)
- Small Stapler | Significant Objects: “So over to Dr. Marjorie Grimstone’s I went, on the cross-town bus, wearing my three-button dove-gray cashmere gloves with my navy suit.” Story by Katharine Weber
- Rope/Wood Monkey Figurine | Significant Objects: “It was just your ordinary childhood,” I would say. “I seem to recall there was some upbringing involved, and then, all of a sudden, I was upbrought.” Story by Kevin Brockmeier
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