Paho Mann's Junk Drawers and Medicine Cabinets series are beautifully executed, the kind of thing we couldn't possibly pass up (via
kottke). But each little composition of objects reminded us not just of
Joseph Cornell,
Kurt Schwitters and even
Damien Hirst, but also the plethora of similar projects that abound on
flickr. As we're fond of often saying, we are all curators now that the internet has given us keys to an infinite cabinet. Nowhere is this more evident than in the plethora of flickr pages that serve as personal monuments to acquisition.
Some examples:
a junk drawer project,
kitchen drawers,
inside your drawers,
my desk drawer, etc. Many of these seem to be inspired by the
What's in your Bag? group (and its nemesis,
What's REALLY in your bag?), as well as
What's in your purse?,
handbag contents,
in my purse and
object collections. Unsurprisingly, there are even groups devoted to
bathroom cabinets and genuine
wunderkammer.
*Other things.
Six Martinis and the Seventh Art, a fabulous film stills weblog. E.g.
this image from
House of Bamboo / illustrations by
Joao Fazenda /
strange form of life, a weblog /
junk drawers (via
the moment) / letters from Salisbury at
English Buildings:
1,
2,
3 /
peta press, craft and more /
all but the dissertation, a weblog /
Russell Davies on
patina, something the shiny digital world sometimes encourages us to forget, unless it's
a deliberate ploy. Flickr's
patina group.
Shut(er)eyes, a visual blog focusing on the unseen in the everyday /
A cup of Jo, a weblog, which links to
Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books project /
my happy things / the glossiest fashionesque images on flickr at
flickrista /
Save our Saarinen! The American Embassy in London under threat.
Pearman on the inevitable philistinism that's about to go down in
Grosvenor Square /
gone to croatoan, a weblog.
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