Found Museum

Yet another museum book

2008-12-31T12:38:00.001-08:00

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, by Sharon Waxman. About the wonders of antiquity, from Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy, that are sitting in the Met, the Louvre and the British Museum.

Not as much about the ins and outs of the museums themselves, but interesting.

Another museum book

2008-12-19T14:32:00.000-08:00

I'm not a reader exclusively of museum books or anything, but as it happens, one book on a topic is followed by another book on the topic.

This one about the Met in New York, by Danny Danziger, who appears to be a Guggenheim. The book is called "Museum" and it's quite interesting, it's about the people who work there.

A snippet: "It is the Metropolitan's boast that every culture from every part of the world is represented here, from Florence to Thebes to Papua, New Guinea, from the earliest times to the present, and in every medium."

Personal informatics

2008-12-08T03:50:00.000-08:00

For the truly compulsive, from an article in The Wall Street Journal, there's a new trend involving keeping tabs of every little thing we do. "Everyone creates data--every smile, conversation and car ride is a potential datapoint. These quotidian aggragators believe that the compilation of our daily activities can reveal the secret patterns that govern the way we live."

I am kind of compulsive, but this is not for me. Sounds very stressful frankly!

Collections

2008-12-07T08:08:00.000-08:00

"All our lives are collections curated through memory."

From Dry Storeroom No. 1, The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, by Richard Fortey. The museum is sort of the ultimate found museum.

Found objects from Central Park

2008-10-10T16:59:00.000-07:00

From Phizzychick

Beach detritus

2008-07-28T16:45:00.000-07:00

Wow. That's all I can say--Wow. From hellejorgensen.typepad.com. See her more detailed pictures by type of detritus.

Statue of Liberty

2008-07-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

The picture was made with soldiers posing to create the shape of the statue, from the Iowa National Guard and then reprised in other sites.

Generations

2008-06-06T18:47:00.000-07:00

Picture from a school trip in Brazil.

Something about this picture is lovely.

Mosaic on the side of a building in New York

2008-05-23T06:12:00.000-07:00

How did this ever come about?

Family photos

2008-05-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

From Norven and Cheryl Storrs

Cherub

2008-05-04T07:34:00.000-07:00

Some beautiful pictures to music

2008-05-02T03:54:00.000-07:00

From Solo immagini solitarie

Decisions!

2008-04-29T18:26:00.000-07:00

I happened to chance on this, it seems to be an inventory or someone's house, maybe someone who died, called Decisions!

Found

2008-04-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

I don't know what this little fellow has been through, I found it walking and I thought it was such a funny little thing.

Computer guts

2008-04-17T17:19:00.000-07:00

Aaaaaagh, so gory! From ah-yi

A Photo A Day

2008-04-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

I love this blog I stumbled across, A Photo A Day--a great concept, beautiful photos, and funny too.

Orange paper wrappers

2008-04-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

This is an amazing site with a collection of orange paper, the paper that some oranges are wrapped in. From orangepaper

One of the reasons this is amazing to me is that I used to have such a collection myself, on a much much more modest scale. I need to see if I still have it somewhere.

Springtown garage sale

2008-04-05T14:51:00.000-07:00

Garage sale blog, here

Historic Albany Foundation's Architectural Parts Warehouse

2008-03-31T17:03:00.000-07:00

I thought this was very cool, at Historic Albany Foundation

The fashionable Melbourne Dog Cafe

2008-03-26T03:52:00.000-07:00

From Dogs of Melbourne

One small purchase, one huge collection

2008-03-20T04:16:00.000-07:00

From Sweet Yesterdays

Vintage apron

2008-03-19T16:22:00.000-07:00

One of many from laural@thimble's photos

The Zymoglyphic Museum

2008-03-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

Something that I found to be very unusual, The Zymoglyphic Museum--this particular piece is titled Guardian Figure.

One of many, many mailboxes

2008-03-15T13:00:00.000-07:00

Featured on Sam's Mailbox Pictures--I picked this one because my son likes Thomas, but there are many, many more to see...

Patterns that remind you of weekends spent at Grandma's

2008-03-11T18:20:00.000-07:00

That's what she said about it, and I see what she means, from be present, be here

Cigarette lighter

2008-03-11T15:49:00.000-07:00

My grandmother was a big smoker back in the days when it wasn't so taboo--it was still bad for you but less of a big deal--and so I have a bit of a fondness for smoking items. I found this on the ground.

Driftwood in natural setting...

2008-03-08T12:35:00.000-08:00

From My Aim Is True

2008-03-07T04:01:00.001-08:00

I love the colors here and the found moment, from strangersphotos

Leaves and Stones and Milan

2008-03-06T15:47:00.000-08:00

A lovely blog with great pictures including lots of pictures of the ground, which is kind of my theme here, with finding things... Leaves and Stones

The Condiment Packet Gallery

2008-03-04T16:39:00.001-08:00

This is the coolest thing you've ever seen--click on the packet to visit--it's very, very cool. I may have to feature this over and over and over again...

The Museum of Online Museums

2008-03-03T16:52:00.000-08:00

At first this site seems kind of serious, but if you click on some of the links farther down on the page, there are some of the funkiest collections you can imagine. Enjoy!

Here is the link: MoOM

Trail markers

2008-03-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

In Sassello, Italy.

A wall hanging

2008-03-02T13:21:00.001-08:00

This was left over after a yard sale. I think it's quite pretty, it looks nice in my house.

Driftwood with a sculptural quality

2008-03-02T13:14:00.000-08:00

I thought I would start with that most basic of found items: driftwood.