just yesterday i bought a book by Davy Rothbart (the creator of Found Magazine) called Found: the Best Lost, Tossed & Forgotten Items From Around The World. so far, it is fascinating!
please use the rest of this thread for any other relevant recommendations.
please use the rest of this thread for any other relevant recommendations.
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Sun, May 2, 2004 - 2:36 PMA friend just got that, and allowed me to drool in its vicinity on Friday.
Online, I'd recco www.trashlog.org/
and may I plug my brief selections of things I claim to have found? www.xradiograph.com/Foundlin...ry-01.htm -
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Mon, May 3, 2004 - 11:44 AMi like both of those websites! thanks for sharing. -
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Fri, May 21, 2004 - 12:22 PMthat's quite interesting! -
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Wed, June 2, 2004 - 3:18 PMi want to srongly recommend an anonymously written book titled Evasion, published by Crimethinc, & concerning the experiences of the author during a period in which he was voluntarily poor & homeless. what makes the book relevant to mention HERE is all the content about dumpster diving (most of which is concentrated in the second section of the book)...this book contains the BEST, most articulate endictment of the WASTEFULLNESS & GREED of industrial civilization that i've ever read! -
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Wed, June 2, 2004 - 7:47 PMThere was a book I used to check out from the public library all the time when I lived in West Covina in the late 70's- Adhocism:The Case For Improvisation by Charles Jencks. It's mainly about the aesthetic of using found materials to build shelters or useful objects, and also talks about how mass-produced uniform shelters like conventional housing developments are crushing to the soul. I think there's still a copy in the Brand Library in Glendale, and maybe a couple in the LA County library system. I wish I had a copy myself. I haven't looked at it in years.
There's also a great one called The Cast-Off Recast- Recycling and the Creative Transformation of Mass Produced Objects, edited by Timothy Correll and Patrick Polk. This one has a lot of great color photos, and chapters on temporary shelters built by homeless people, toys made of found materials, and a lot of other stuff. This book can still be found, sometimes at bargain prices, in bookstores. If I get ambitious later this week maybe I'll scan a couple of the photos and post them in the photo album for the tribe.
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Thu, June 3, 2004 - 11:18 AMHi, Holden-
I went to the Found reading here in SF last night, and am going again tonight--so much fun, and...well...Davy's brother sure is hot!
In the spirit of recommendations, I recommend that you go to the reading when it hits your town: it's readings of finds, with locals contributing anything they've brought to the reading, and songs Pete Rothbart has written based on the finds (including one from the now-infamous "Booty Rap" tape).
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 10:10 AMyesterday i discovered an excellent book called Anonymous, edited & with commentary by Robert Flynn Johnson. it's a photography book consisting of old photos by anonymous photographers from his personal collection. the book doesn't really make it clear how he acquired most of these, so possibly a lot of them were bought at flea markets & estate sales & suchlike, rather than *found* in the sense that we usually discuss here: discovered abandoned someplace & left *free for the taking*...but it hardly matters. -
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 10:53 AMIs the book mostly photographs with no explanation of how they were aquired?
What makes it an excellent book in your opinion?
Are the photo's from a certain time period? Is there any theme to it?
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 9:25 PMReviving this thread reminded me that some time ago I had set aside several items to be uploaded into our photo album:
The first two are from a book called The Cast-Off Recast, ISBN 0-930741-75-7 if anyone wants to try to find a copy.
1. "Larry, a Vietnam War veteran, has decorated his cart in a colorful manner. As he relates, 'I knew how to survive in the war, I know how to survive in the city. My buggy must be well organized, and I must pack my belongings in proper bags, to separate the food and the material to go to the recycling center. (When you live on the streets) everyday is a trip.' "
2."This telescoped conjoining of cardboard boxes forms a snug capsule that protects its inhabitant."
The third is from an old issue of Colours
"If you go home to Burundi, will you take the bike back with you?
No. there are many trees in Burundi. I could build all the bikes I like."
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Wed, November 30, 2005 - 11:21 AMthanks for the new photos, Michael! notice i made one of them the main photo for now.
Atlanta, in answer to your questions...the accompanying text doesn't make it clear how he got these photos. my best guess is that he found some by chance abandoned in various places, while he bought others from flea markets, thrift stores & the like. as to why i say this is an excellent book...for 1 thing, a lot of the photos are really wild & mysterious! also they provide a window into strangers' lives, & into earlier historical periods. there's no single over-arching theme although the book is divided according to the general subject of the photos.
most of them seem to be from the early 20th or in some cases late 19th centuries, plenty of them from more recent times, including some that were obviously taken in the 1960s. -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 2:42 PMat the cost of getting just slightly redundant, i'd like to again post a link that already exists on another thread:
www.foundmagazine.com
i bother to put the link here because the site has a new feature: News of the Found. locate that on the upper right corner -
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Wed, March 14, 2007 - 10:14 PMthe Found Magazine folks have put out a new book, compiled by Jason Bitner, titled Found Polaroids. i got my copy today & enjoy it immensely!
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Fri, March 16, 2007 - 3:58 AMthis is *kind* of similar postsecret.blogspot.com/
it makes me think of found but deliberate -
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Fri, March 16, 2007 - 3:04 PMWONDERFULL website, Bats! how often do they add new stuff? -
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STRONGLY recommended...
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:58 AMa documentary by Agnes Varda, easily available on dvd, in French with English subtitles, called The Gleaners & I. it's about finders and scavengers, ranging all the way from folks who go into fields to collect whatever leftover vegetables remain after farmers have harvested, to dumpster divers, to people who make assemblage art from salvaged bits, etc.! there's a Wikipedia article about the film.
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Fri, March 28, 2008 - 9:01 PMThey add new stuff every Sunday. Im hooked on this site. -
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