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  • Sheila Grinell commented on her article To Curate--Not a Good Idea
    Wow. Can we get your profession's use of collage as a verb out there for the general public? Sounds like a solution, unless the art world objects. Cheers.
  • I identify with the imagery! I feel at home as a scavenger. In fact I use found objects in my art work, and said artwork is finding its way, as pictures into my writing. Why not?  I u...
  • ...profound to me, yet society tends to act like it's not a "true" or "real" creative pursuit. After all, the outcome isn't money, fame, or physical objects but "merely" well-adjusted hu...
  • I first discovered QR via a very cool MOMA exhibit -- Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects -- which closes Nov. 7, btw. Then I got the iPhone app and created a code for my husband's website . . .it's really pretty easy.
  • ...hough I've been married for a long time) for me to observe a family who can go back many, many generations--where names are passed on, as well as objects. There's even a (very small)...
  • ...s first who birthed these books through hard labour. I'm still struggling to find the words, but thanks for reminding that we're not just selling objects but sharing our offspring wit...
  • One of the objects I cherish the most from the few things that came out fire is a charred handwritten note from my grandfather, whose handwriting is impeccable. It doesn't ev...
  • .... A lot of us want to be wanted by the opposite sex (men want to be wanted by women, too), but it's just not necessary to turn ourselves into sex objects. I keep telling my daughters...
  • I just approved your comment over at LitDrift -- for some reason it was showing up as spam! Thanks for the note. This is, indeed, an interesting question. Not just the language but the experiences, objects of daily life, and cultural referents are the raw fodder of the work of translators.
  • ...asuring cups, and pretty much else. Just because they don't come with instruction manuals doesn't meant that knowing how to use or identify these objects is anything other than early...