06-18-08 – Museum of Found Objects

Define “found”. If by found you mean I scoured my housing looking for random I-don’t-know stuff without actually having anything in mind, and happened to some across these items, then yes, they were found.. It’s hard to take pictures of lost stuff, because you don’t know where they are. But then again, I’ve always lost my marbles 😆

This will mark creepy babies likely final appearance.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding then? Should I go find stuff laying around outside to display?

That’s pretty much it….someone lost it – you found it. C’mon, people lose stuff every day. Walk next to any road and you’ll find a hubcap, a shoe, a glove. On the train or subway you may find a hat or umbrella.

My (so far unphotographed) collection includes work gloves, two ?5 notes, two of those ball pump attachment thingies, a number of ballpoint pens, and some other stuff.

As Elsinore said, there’s no way to enforce it, but have some fun !

BTW Killerclaw, I hope you don’t get poisoned fishing your dolly out of that water to set it up as a museum display 😆

Ok, I’ll go wander around outside then. Thanks for clearing that up!

Does it have to be regular ‘everyday’ stuff? My 10 year old and I were exploring down by the river (good excuse for me to get out of the house with my camera) and we found some old bones. We have the skull and mandible of…something. Perhaps it belonged to a raccoon. Could I set that up all museum-like and submit it? If not, we found bottles, somebody’s construction hard-hat, etc. that I can shoot.

My father is an avid scavenger, I have lots of cool found items, the presentation is the challenge here I think.