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FOT Community => Links => Topic started by: kimota on March 25, 2008, 10:39:45 AM
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Found is a pretty cool magazine and I have been collecting found stuff for years. Anyone else here collect found stuff and have scans to post? Here are a few of my finds...
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/ap80/photo-music8.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/founds/artificialeye.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/founds/conjuringzombiejesusb.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/founds/letter_1_pg1.jpg)
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I found this bizarre tiny photo on a soda machine years ago. It was taken in 1974, according to the back, and it featured a bunch of kids with what appeared to be an upside down live oak in the background. Bizarre.
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I collect little tickets and stubs that I find. I know that sounds weird, but there are always great typography that have been naturally distressed that I can scan in or cut up and use in my work. I'm always hording bit of design. Especially old postcards that I find at flea markets.
Of course this also makes me a weird pack-rat who lives in a fire trap.
But a professional, nonetheless.
If I have time tonight I'll scan some in.
C
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I collect little tickets and stubs that I find. I know that sounds weird, but there are always great typography that have been naturally distressed that I can scan in or cut up and use in my work. I'm always hording bit of design. Especially old postcards that I find at flea markets.
Of course this also makes me a weird pack-rat who lives in a fire trap.
But a professional, nonetheless.
C
well put! I am a pack-rat of the weird as well. I have tons of stuff I may never find a use for, but you never know. I found out most of the males on my mom's side are pack-rats as well so I don't stress about it as much as I used to. It was relieving finding a hereditary explaination for it.
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I used to collect religious propaganda. Now I suppose I collect stray images and phrases off the Internet, which I print out and thumbtack to a wall in my kitchen. I don't plan on removing anything, just layering things as the years go by. I frequently feel rather insane when I do this, but what the hell.
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I used to collect religious propaganda. Now I suppose I collect stray images and phrases off the Internet, which I print out and thumbtack to a wall in my kitchen. I don't plan on removing anything, just layering things as the years go by. I frequently feel rather insane when I do this, but what the hell.
kind of a modern palimpsest in a way, what a neat idea. My refrigerator is kind of like that but more out of laziness than some kind of plan. Would you post a pic of your kitchen wall?
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No digital camera. Indeed, no working scanner, so even if I took a conventional photo I'd have no way of converting it into something postable here. Maybe someday. A lunatic I know got a digital camera for his birthday; perhaps he'll have it on him the next time he visits.
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I love found objects/pictures. ere's some cool sites I like-
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
http://www.10eastern.com/foundphotos/
http://www.spillway.com/
http://www.bighappyfunhouse.com/
http://swapatorium.typepad.com/
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I got one up: http://foundmagazine.com/find/2322
But it never beats the one my brother found and never submitted -- a shopping list that included nipple shields, beer, and a tape of Die Hard II.
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i'm not into this stuff
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I love found stuff!
for awhile I was purposely planting my own found objects around jersey. I'd leave photos on the street, put letters from old girlfriends in library books, etc.
I just liked the idea that someone sometime was finding my old stuff and inventing a whole new life for it.
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well put! I am a pack-rat of the weird as well. I have tons of stuff I may never find a use for, but you never know. I found out most of the males on my mom's side are pack-rats as well so I don't stress about it as much as I used to. It was relieving finding a hereditary explaination for it.
There are some great books that are put out that exclusively deal with this. I smarty-pants way of justifying it is that you can learn about culture from it's discarded material.
Kind of like how I go through Bruce's garbage at night when I think he's asleep...
PS to Emily...
I confused you with Erica last week when I was asking about your smoking habit. Really sorry about that. It must have seemed weird. I didn't have my glasses on or something like that when I was looking at the chat.
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I love found stuff!
for awhile I was purposely planting my own found objects around jersey. I'd leave photos on the street, put letters from old girlfriends in library books, etc.
I just liked the idea that someone sometime was finding my old stuff and inventing a whole new life for it.
Kind of like that kid in The Squid and the Whale? I have that habit too.
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Is the top photo the band Europe?
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Is the top photo the band Europe?
I think it may be Loverboy. I found two binders full of glossy photos and promo stuff of bands that played at Alpine Valley in 1980, some autographed to a Leslie but most are not. There are all kinds of interesting things in those binders.
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/ap80/lineup2.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/founds/music12.jpg)
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/founds/music21.jpg)
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do any of you guys dig holes looking for old bottles?
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I used to when I did archaeology. I see guys probing the ground in my neighbor hood all the time for old bottle caches. I found some Civil War era ceramic beer bottles during an excavation in downtown Des Moines and have some odds and ends.
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I've always wanted to do that. Since my giant tree fell over, I think I will go dig some holes in on the hill in my back yard. Yetta has the rest of the yard covered, but she hasn't found anything but giant moles.
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If you can just find a long, skinny piece of metal to poke in a ground a foot or so, you'll know when you hit glass, then you can haul out the shovel. Digging holes kinda sucks, especially it you come up empty after a day of digging. Depressions or abnormal looking 'bumps' in the topography are good places to start probing. Old farms are good places to probe, usually near the foundation as lots of folks had a garbage pit near the foundation. Abandoned cisterns are sometimes filled with bottles and such as well. I've never intentionally went outlooking for bottles, just been lucky to find surface features that indicate bottles below.
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I'm taking the afternoon off and I'm going to go poke around in the mud. There are long, skinny metal rods in the back yard that the guy who cut up the tree that fell over left back there.
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"I think it may be Loverboy. I found two binders full of glossy photos and promo stuff of bands that played at Alpine Valley in 1980, some autographed to a Leslie but most are not. There are all kinds of interesting things in those binders."
Awesome. i bet I know some people who went to at least a few of those shows.
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I have a found photo collection dating back to 92. I'll post some when I get time.
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I used to work at a movie theater. This is by far the best thing I ever found while cleaning theaters:
(http://www.novirginsallowed.com/misc/scan0001.jpg) (http://www.novirginsallowed.com/misc/scan0002.jpg)
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Holy moly that is hysterical.
I love how Tanner misspelled "very" after spelling it correctly 11 straight times.
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That is great. And the payoff makes it really classic.
Also funny: Emily's post.