Thursday, July 15, 2004



FOUND Magazine

Have you ever found a photo or a note on the ground? You weren't expecting to find anything. You were just walking down to the store to buy some eggs and milk when this little item blew into your path or maybe it was stuck under your windshield wipers by mistake. However and wherever you found it it is now part of your day. But what do you do with it? Do you pick the photo up? Do you look at it turning it over in your hands inspecting every detail? Who's in this photo? What was the occation? Do you read the note and wonder about who wrote it and who it was meant to receive it? What was going on in their lives that prompted them to write such a note?

Or maybe you just leave it there. You step over it and go on your way. Maybe you don't even notice it at all. Either way you'll never know what you've missed.

If you like these little bits of teasure (voyuerist though they may be) then you'll enjoy FOUND. If you don't stop to look at the mundane then you need to look at FOUND and learn to broaden your world.



2 Comments:

Blogger KMJ said...

I love the ideas that this brings up. Fun!!!

9:34 PM  
Blogger KMJ said...

Scott is a master of "found" objects/art. I can think of two great examples.

(1) In his days at CSULB, he took a class in one of the old science buildings and (pried open?) a long locked drawer. Inside he found the perfectly preserved wrappers (PPW) from some candy bar. Treasure, you ask? Who gives a chocolately-#!&?%#*-darn about a $0.75 candy bar wrapper? Answer: Scott - because you see, said wrapper was not $0.75 at all, but like $0.05 (or whatever) - as it prominently said on the PPW. Evidently, chocolate cravings have fundamentally tied to studying, learning and/or test taking for many decades.

(2) Example number two stems from the same principle, but different commercial item. Walking through the parking lot at Jantzen Beach, Scott comes across an entirely flattened Coke can. Trash, you ask? Oh no. The pancaked packaging of this American favorite had - gasp - a PULL TAB. A "PULL TAB" you say? An anachronistic mystery, says Scott, as he pockets the crunched can for later consideration. (Now, while I mock...I do still wonder how a can that was probably made in the 1980s came to be in a fairly new paved parking lot. A mystery worthy of the fine heros of Timeline, I think.

5:50 AM  

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