Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-11-28
BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary...
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Houston high school library throws out books, makes way for coffee and couches. http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2fbc # Rosemary Williams documents everything she owns, in "Belongings."...
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Two objects, two stories — and a dozen writer contributions
Readers, as you know, the initial Significant Objects experiment hewed to the strict scientific standards necessary to demonstrate our initial hypothesis: that narrative, even 100% invented narrative,...
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Significant Hiatus
While you wait, buy a print. Readers, as we mentioned in passing recently, this site is going to be quiet for a while, as the Significant Objects team holes up in its secret laboratory facilities to...
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Bruce Sterling (@bruces) 9/22/11 12:40 PM http://t.co/1vFi6Ev *People are always claiming they’ll archive a dead creative website, but these guys actually did it.
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The Migration of Objects
The Brooklyn-based Proteus Gowanus gallery recently announced an exhibition on “The Migration of Objects.” They’ve sent out a call for submissions. Here’s the idea: When we think about migration (as...
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Check out a high school’s Significant Objects-inspired experiment
Check this out: Inspired by the work of Significant Objects … and how they got that way, Grade 11 students (ELA 20-1) from Wm. E. Hay High School are embarking upon a journey of their own to see where...
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Never Liked It Anyway
Never Liked It Anyway is a new website “where once loved gifts from once loved partners get a second chance… We’ve all been there. We’ve all got stories to tell and things to sell. This is a place...
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Significant Objects in Stories
According to Transmedia Digest, there are only two types of significant objects in stories. We beg to differ!
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Brian Eno agrees
“Nearly all of art history is about trying to identify the source of value in cultural objects. Color theories and dimension theories, golden means, all those sort of ideas, assume that some objects...
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Show and Tell at CABINET
Our friends at Cabinet magazine recently announced that Cabinet’s event space will be the spring 2012 home of “Show-and-Tell,” Paul Lukas’s monthly open-mic night. If you are going to be in Brooklyn...
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Significant Objects Meme (27)
In a recent Design Observer post, Rick Poynor visits Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence, founded in April of this year by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and flatteringly describes it as “a fabulously...
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Sneak Peek
Last week, Fantagraphics sent us advance copies of Significant Objects, the book. That is to say, the gorgeous book that is bursting at the seams with 100 stories that first appeared on this website!...
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Donation to 826 National
Today, Significant Objects donated $450 to the youth creative-writing tutoring program 826 National! As you may recall, in 2009–10 we raised over $2,200 for 826 National via the auctions associated...
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Donation to Girls Write Now
We’ve sent out another check today. Earlier, Significant Objects chose Girls Write Now to receive all proceeds from one of our “volumes” of stories and auctions. We were thrilled to donate over $1,700...
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Significant Cocktails
There’s a really great account of the triumphant public debut of the Significant Objects, at The Strand on July 10 over on Electric Literature’s Outlet blog, and maybe we’ll say more on that later....
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