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Title: Found
Post by: kimota on March 25, 2008, 10:39:45 AM
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)

Title: Re: Found
Post by: Laurie on March 25, 2008, 10:49:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Spoony on March 25, 2008, 11:16:10 AM
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
Title: Re: Found
Post by: kimota on March 25, 2008, 11:22:57 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Sarah on March 25, 2008, 01:27:11 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Found
Post by: kimota on March 25, 2008, 01:31:08 PM
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?
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Sarah on March 25, 2008, 01:37:10 PM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Sploops on March 25, 2008, 01:55:05 PM
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/
Title: Re: Found
Post by: senorcorazon on March 25, 2008, 01:55:44 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Emily on March 25, 2008, 01:57:09 PM
i'm not into this stuff
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Denim Gremlin on March 25, 2008, 02:06:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Spoony on March 25, 2008, 02:09:26 PM

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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Spoony on March 25, 2008, 02:10:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Ignore Function on March 26, 2008, 12:01:11 AM
Is the top photo the band Europe?
Title: Re: Found
Post by: kimota on March 26, 2008, 08:36:45 AM
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)
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Julie on March 26, 2008, 10:52:42 AM
do any of you guys dig holes looking for old bottles?
Title: Re: Found
Post by: kimota on March 26, 2008, 11:01:04 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Julie on March 26, 2008, 11:02:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: kimota on March 26, 2008, 11:12:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Julie on March 26, 2008, 11:33:29 AM
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.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Ignore Function on March 26, 2008, 04:49:07 PM
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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. 
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Jason on March 26, 2008, 10:24:43 PM
I have a found photo collection dating back to 92. I'll post some when I get time.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Jixby Phillips on March 26, 2008, 11:17:56 PM
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)
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on March 26, 2008, 11:46:54 PM
Holy moly that is hysterical.
I love how Tanner misspelled "very" after spelling it correctly 11 straight times.
Title: Re: Found
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 26, 2008, 11:51:27 PM
That is great.  And the payoff makes it really classic.

Also funny: Emily's post.