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June 3, 2010
Last Chance — HiLobrow Microfic Contest
Oil Spill Crisis: New York
June 5th is the deadline to enter HiLobrow's OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE short-short story contest. Prize money will be donated to a good cause!
THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town or city where you live, but imagine that it (and its surrounding area) has been flooded with several hundred thousand gallons of crude oil daily, because of a drilling-related crisis some weeks earlier.
THE PRIZES: HiLobrow will donate $100 in honor of the contest winner to the
June 2, 2010
(Not) Naming names: Would you buy an anonymous creation?
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We already know, thanks to this project, that people will buy a near-worthless doodad for much more than its free-market value after it's given a completely invented narrative. But how important is the identity of the narrative-maker? In other words: Would Significant Objects still sell if we didn't tell you who our authors are?
Here's why I ask.
E pointed out to me an interesting post by gallerist and art blogger Edward Winkleman, as it mentions Significant Objects. I'll get to that part...
June 1, 2010
3 Author Updates
This is the 10th in an occasional series of updates about our nearly 200 Significant Objects authors. We're publishing these while we work on various Significant Objects-related projects about which you'll hear more soon. In the meantime, read SO v1 stories | SO v2 stories | SO v3 stories, and follow our Twitter stream.
1) On June 13, Teddy Blanks is performing some songs before a screening of Tiny Furniture, a movie for which he wrote and recorded an original score. It's a part of Rooftop...
May 30, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-05-30
May 28, 2010
13 Ways of Looking at a Doohickey
Between October of last year and February of this one, the curators of Significant Objects parsed the data from the project's first, experimental phase in the following thirteen ways.
We classified the 100 object-stories in our experiment as talismans, totems, evidence, and fossils.We presented the raw original price/final price data.We listed the week in which each story was published, and its associated object listed for auction on eBay.We neutralized the Duration Factor by adding $18.00 to...May 26, 2010
Top 25 sales list updated: v1, v2, v3
With three full volumes and a whopping 200 stories published, it's time once again to revise and update the the list of the "Top 25″ Significant Object auction prices paid to date. Actually, owing to a tie for the 25th spot, the Top 25 All Time is now technically the Top 26.
Since the last time this list was updated, four Significant Objects from v3 have entered this increasingly exclusive territory:
Wooden Bottle + Christine Hill Story arrives on the chart at the number 6 slot; Wooden Apple...
May 24, 2010
May 23, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-05-23
Support the Center for Biological Diversity — stop oil well spills! Submit a micro-story: http://bit.ly/HiLoOilSpillFic #
Guy polls 246 authors about their first novels, shares data. (Median number of years worked-on: ten. Etc.) http://bit.ly/dkNlpW #
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May 21, 2010
5 Author Updates (9)
This is the ninth in an occasional series of updates about our nearly 200 Significant Objects authors. We're publishing these while we work on various Significant Objects-related projects about which you'll hear more soon. In the meantime, read SO v1 stories | SO v2 stories | SO v3 stories, and follow our Twitter stream. PS: Next month, we're only going to post three Author Updates at a time; doing five is too difficult.
1) Matt Sumell says he is "busy with the difficult and solitary work of f...
May 19, 2010
Oil Spill Microfiction Contest!
Over at our sister site, HiLobrow, Patrick Cates has announced a new microfiction contest. The theme: OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE. Prize money will be donated to a good cause — read on for details.
THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town or city where you live, but imagine that it (and its surrounding area) has been flooded with several hundred thousand gallons of crude oil daily, because of a drilling-related crisis some weeks earlier. You might find using the interactive Gulf Coast Oil...
