May 09, 2004

Heavy Little Objects. Mack Reed catalogues and glorifies the things he builds and finds.

(via del.icio.us again... sigh)

posted by pmdboi 20 years ago
  • i've been known to pick up random bits of this and that off the ground, or in an antique shop, or wherever (i have a sort of cool collection of tiny lab glassware - like 1 mL beakers, and that sort). so i sort of understand the idea here. but somehow i don't think i'm quite as obsessed as this guy - but it seems like a healthy obsession, so i say good for him.
  • I like this site. I REALLY like this site. The objects are ok interesting, but the guy's writing is what makes it. Not every entry is fantabulishius, but there's a couple in which he waxes lyrical. I have a small collection of little objects--worthless to anyone but me, but they trigger good memories--several horse teeth, tiny polished rocks, a wee dictionary found in an abandoned shack, a doll's teacup, old marbles. Odd, the things we save.