#personal objects

[eclectic-ways]

It always hurts to toss away my personal calendars. This one is to the extend I’m afraid to engage with its grief. I’ll never forget about 2024. That’s for damn sure.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Dr Johnson’s Doorknob

and other significant parts of great men’s houses

Liz Workman

Rizzoli Int., New York 2007, 207 pages,  17.15 x 3.48 x 17.55 cm, ISBN  978-0847829705

euro 30,00

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Behind every great man are his objects and daily possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself. Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob, inspired by Liz Workman’s National Heritage Revisited series published in England in 2002, is a situationist’s catalog of overlooked and highly amusing personal objects from the most famous households in history. From the mantelpieces in the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the crockery in Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home and the banisters in the William Morris Gallery, Workman peeked over the velvet ropes and turned an ironic eye on some of the most important historic homes in England and America. Each of the nine chapters in this charming, slipcased package is an anthology in itself, a collection of photographs that celebrate the unsung features of “great” men’s homes: there are door handles and banisters from the hallways of Charles Dickens and Jules Verne; the ashtray that held Freud’s cigarette butts; and chairs sat on by Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson. From her photos of Washington’s four-poster to John Keats’s desk chair and Winston Churchill’s floral prints, Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob breathes new life into the inhabitants of these homes.

31/05/21

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[brooklynmuseum]

👋 West Palm! The final North American presentation of our celebrated exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern is on view at Norton Museum of Art now through February 2, 2020. Rather than a conventional retrospective, the exhibition offers unique pairings of paintings, personal objects, and photographs of the artist to demonstrate her modern aesthetic in both art and life. If you have a friend in South Florida who you think will enjoy this show, share this with them and tell them to check it out! 

Posted by Gwen Arriaga Philippe Halsman (American, born Latvia, 1906–1979). Georgia O'Keeffe, 1948, printed 1997. Gelatin silver print, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Museum Purchase, 2014.3.46. © Halsman Estate

[brooklynmuseum]

👋 Reno! Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern is making its way out West. This must-see exhibition, on view at Nevada Museum of art now through October 20,  offers a fresh, compelling look at the career of one of America’s most iconic artists through personal objects, paintings, and photographs. 

If you have a friend in Reno who you think will enjoy this show, share this with them and tell them to check it out! 

Laura Gilpin (American, 1891–1979). Georgia O’Keeffe, 1953. Gelatin silver print.). Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, N.M.; 2014.3.38. © 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX⁠

[klaranovacic]

The need to personalize an everyday object, portraying one's personal style. Giving meaning and personality to an inanimate object

[klaranovacic]

Stacy Greene lipstick project

[mairenah]

personal storage objects, wich you can then place in your inventory.

Just found this today, going to test it in a minute <3 

<quote> “The purpose of the Personal Storage mods here is to open up many objects in the game to have a new kind of storage facility that does not exist in the game.Firstly to offer a unique storage hold for each object, so that it can hold absolutely anything inside which a sim can normally hold in their own personal inventory. No restrictions, If a sim can hold it, so can these objects. Secondly, to make each object its own private storage space, so that what you place inside one, will never be available when opening another. This is not Resident Evil, we don't want to find the same stuff in every storage box we open. And lastly, for this set in particular, to give each item the Live Drag function so you can drag the objects in and out of a sim's inventory, or command the sim to "put in inventory" or "place in world." So that our sims can carry them everywhere for quick storage use and access wherever they may travel.” </quote> Coolspear’s words.

[ohrworm]

For all the crisp clarity of the screen, the Nokia is a richer multi sensory experience than the iPhone all round. The ocularcentric design approach of other phones becomes even clearer—the iPhone really is all screen; it's all it's got. As an object and an interface, the iPhone is ignoring far more precise senses, such as touch and sound. In comparison, the N9 excels at these. The keyboard is excellent, as good as any, not least due to the subtle tactile feedback of faux-localised vibration. The sounds for calls and other notifications are both carefully crafted and discreet (Nokia has form here: remember 2005's Nokia 8800 featured sounds by Ryuichi Sakamoto.) Near-field communication (NFC) is built into the device, indicating the potential for more embodied interactions. 'Discreet' is the overriding sensibility in terms of notifications in general, actually, which is another smart differentiator. This is essentially recessive and respectful companion, at least compared to other phones, which is a welcome innovation indeed in an age of social media and internet-of-things. Design director Marko Ahtisaari has also placed emphasis on being operate the phone one-handed, even in your pocket. While such a manouevre might garner the occasional raised eyebrow from onlookers, it is both a gesture based on recognising the urban context of mobile phone use and a reminder of a phone-based characteristic, as opposed to something emblematic of the smartphone.

Portable cathedrals

Thinking about tactility and texture in our personal objects brought me back to this piece.