Rob Walker's Blog, page 18
June 27, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-06-27
Laura Miller on the slush-pile reading future. http://bit.ly/bZtPQe #
Pictures of Stuff, on the MKTG Tumblr: http://murketing.tumblr.com/tagged/Pictures_of_Stuff #
Nice writeup about S.O. on Shareable.net. http://bit.ly/aFciSV #
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June 25, 2010
Save 20% on the Signficant Objects limited-edition print!
11x14; edition of 500: $50!
Techincally I guess you can save 20% on any 20X200 order of $50 or more, but you'll feel good about yourself for buying one of the ones created for us, because proceeds go to Girls Write Now. Concise details:
Enter code RIDONK at checkout for 20% off your order of $50 or more, now through Sunday @ noon.
Although, when I think about it, you probably would feel better about that if you just paid full price.
Whatever.
Your call.
Epistolary Week concludes…
Thanks everybody for reading the stories and bidding on the objects and helping spread the word on our Epistolary Week series, guest-curated by Ben Greenman. In five short days we converted $3.50 worth of thrift-store flotsam into a sweet $229 donation to the good people of One Story.
Be sure to check out Ben's book, What He's Poised To Do, and the related site, Letters With Character.
June 23, 2010
Then there were two
Down to the last two items from our Epistolary Week special series, guest curated by Ben Greenman. Bid here.
And check out the other project related to Ben's What He's Poised To Do: It's called Letters With Character, and aims to "allow readers to interact directly with literary characters."
June 22, 2010
The scarce and the infinite: Considering the Significant Objects book, and its story
Techdirt, which has long been one of the most insightful observers of Significant Objects, offers up the first analysis we've seen of how our forthcoming book adds to this project's consideration of narrative , things, and value:
[The original experiment:] was a perfect example of how an infinite good (the story), when properly attached to a scarce good (the trinket), can make that scarce good much more valuable. This is a point that many have trouble grasping. They think, when we discuss...
June 21, 2010
Greenman and friends (including S.O.) in NYC tonight…
Hey readers in New York City: Tonight, Ben Greenman, guest curator of our special Epistolary Week, has a special event tonight in connection with his just-released book, What He's Poised To Do. The New Yorker explains:
He'll be joined by Jonny Diamond, of The L Magazine; the actress and performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, reading on behalf of the Web site Significant Objects; Nicki Pombier Berger, from the Web site Underwater New York*; and Todd Zuniga, of Opium magazine, who will be...
June 20, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-06-20
June 18, 2010
Miniature Pitcher + Joe Meno Story
Object No. 5 of 5: Epistolary Week
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Joe Meno, here. This is part of a series of five epistolary stories guest-curated by Ben Greenman. Proceeds from this auction will go to One Story.]
(A note found in grandfather's chest of drawers.)
Dear Small Vessel,
"The Brief War of 1851: a compleat (sic) novel in miniature"
Prologue: On the green-twigged outskirts of Macon, Georgia, one Mister Bradley Granger meets the fair, emerald-eyed Miss Melissa Stuart...
June 17, 2010
Tiny Wrecking Ball + Scott Snyder Story
Object No. 4 of 5: Epistolary Week
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Scott Snyder, here. This is part of a series of five epistolary stories guest-curated by Ben Greenman. Proceeds from this auction will go to One Story.]
Dear Emma,
I've left you this tiny wrecking ball because it's what brought me back.
I found it in an antique shop two weeks ago. I was with my girlfriend; we were on our way to visit her parents upstate. She was looking for shaker furniture and I was wandering...
June 16, 2010
Heart-shaped Candle + Terese Svoboda Story
Object No. 3 of 5: Epistolary Week
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Terese Svoboda, here. This is part of a series of five epistolary stories guest-curated by Ben Greenman. Proceeds from this auction will go to One Story.]
Dear Wicked One:
As in "wick," your sat-upon heart suggests so much to all of us on this Planet Nolove, pronounced to rhyme with olive, which whirs toward our sun at an alarming rate reminiscent of sperm lash. We lack heat and your visage, so pinkly coy, so...
