Significant Objects

Great creative writers invent stories about thrift-store objects -- and you can buy them on eBay. A project in collaboration with Joshua Glenn.

Other Projects

Unconsumption blog and Wiki in progress.

Things That Look Like Other Things.

Counterfunctionality (A Gallery).

MLK BLVD: Open-source photography project: Contribute to the Flickr pool; browse the blog.

--> The Metapoll. Take it.

Projects that are specific to this site

1. Gallery of Default Anonymity. Ongoing.

2. The Product Is You. Ongoing.

3. The 48-Hour T-shirt. Concluded.

4. The International Review of Wine Packaging and Aesthetics. Discontinued.

Zine

"Where Were You?" Annual.

Comic book

Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business. With Josh Neufeld.

Linkpile

Posted by Rob Walker on August 18, 2009
Posted Under: Non-Daily Linkpile

The rapid spread of “entertainment shopping” spurs indignation: “People will try it because they want to get a good deal. But it’s the experience that brings them back—they are in it for the thrill of winning.”
Greenpeace makes up with Kimberly-Clark, releases sappy video: Greenpeace has dropped its “Kleercut” commercials in support of K-C’s “stronger fiber sourcing standards.”
Brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.: Latest stab at this subject. On Slate.
Ugly Dolls are a labor of love: L.A. Times story. This was one of the very first Consumed topics.
Marines (Upside-Down) Logo Mug | Significant Objects: “The error was so basic, so obvious, that he wondered if there weren’t some hidden layer of complexity at work here.” Story by Tom Vanderbilt.

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