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All I Possess
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- q_revert 10y agoa book, with some strikingly similar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Larry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Larry
- boondaburrah 10y agoI was looking for this. I read it over a decade ago in middle school immediately thought "is this Larry?"
- swamp40 10y agoMaintenance might be a bit difficult...
- hfsktr 10y agoSeeing this I realize I own a lot more than I thought. I also realize there are several things I would not put publicly on the web. I don't get art I guess.
- et-al 10y agoThe execution of this is super weak. There's nothing about the site that really conveys the magnitude of items besides page __ of 12, and you can't even browse by category as if it were an online shopping site, or see original purchase price. He's not utilising the chosen medium of an online shopping cart, so why even use Shopify in this case? It's a minimalistic image gallery with captions. Sometimes the message is bland or the artist does a bad job of communicating their intentions. And this is one of those situations where I wouldn't fault the viewer as much as the artist for "not getting it."
- lazyoldsun 10y agoMostly impressed by the Two Meter Long Sweater
- Herodotus38 10y agoSomeone correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see a computer anywhere. I guess he has a friend uploading the images or he uses a public computer?
- atomwaffel 10y agoYou're wrong: https://allipossess.com/products/macbook https://allipossess.com/products/macbook He does, however, only seem to possess one pair of boxer shorts.
- kaybe 10y agohttps://allipossess.com/products/boxer-shorts-white https://allipossess.com/products/boxer-shorts-white It says '1 of 10', so presumably they're all the same.
- synicalx 10y agoWhite ones, very brave.
- Herodotus38 10y agoThanks, I'm imagining what my site would look like doing this. With two kids the children books alone would be more than double all this man has.
- MrLeap 10y agoBold move showing all his keys like that.
- aardvark179 10y agoThere was a much more extreme work along the same lines by Michael Landy where he destroyed all his possessions Over a two week period.
- basseq 10y agoArt... or the most meticulous documentation of possessions for renters insurance coverage?
- Neliquat 10y agoClearly nothing prevents it from being both. That may be how it began.
- KON_Air 10y agoWhite things on white background, supported by shopify... sublime.
- jondubois 10y agoWow, I own even less stuff than this guy. When I started being a digital nomad, I was able to fit all of my worldly possessions in half a suitcase and one laptop bag...
- NickBusey 10y agoI was happy to see cleaning supplies, tools, and cooking gadgets. Every time someone posts one of those 'I only own 12 things' posts, that's the first thing I think about/look for. Oh, you just spilled a drink? Better call a cleaning lady because you don't even own paper towels. Time to a cook a meal? Nope, can't. Better just eat out instead. Something is broken? No duct tape, can't go over my 12 item limit, throw out the broken thing and buy a new one. It all seems so impractical while also oozing of privilege. Must be nice to not have to repair anything or ever cook for yourself.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y ago> It all seems so impractical while also oozing of privilege. Must be nice to not have to repair anything or ever cook for yourself. Actually eating at cafeteria is what least wealthy people, e.g. students, do. Buying food cooked in batch and sharing instruments is cheaper than maintaining your own kitchen and possessions.
- Miner49er 10y agoI don't think that's true at all. University cafeteria's are very expensive in my experience (at least in the U.S.).
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agoThe price there just reflects how much students are ready to pay. Cooking is actually cheaper when done en masse. Just look at how poor countries and army handles it.
- icebraining 10y agoHow do poor countries handle it?
- taneq 10y agoWith multitudinous small unregulated street vendors, mostly.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agoPhotographing your keys [0] is a bad idea [1]. [0] https://allipossess.com/products/key-ring https://allipossess.com/products/key-ring [0] https://allipossess.com/products/lock https://allipossess.com/products/lock [0] https://allipossess.com/products/bend-key https://allipossess.com/products/bend-key [0] https://allipossess.com/products/old-key https://allipossess.com/products/old-key [0] https://allipossess.com/products/broken-key https://allipossess.com/products/broken-key [1] https://hackaday.com/2009/09/22/photographic-key-duplication/ https://hackaday.com/2009/09/22/photographic-key-duplication... [1] https://keysduplicated.com/ https://keysduplicated.com/
- DrScump 10y agoIf somebody copies his keys and takes his stuff, he has less stuff to have to document, meaning a lot less work. It's secretly brilliant!
- waiseristy 10y agoI don't understand this style of, minimalism? Isn't the point to remove the power your possessions have over you? Not obsess over minifying the amount of possessions you own?
- lucideer 10y agoI think you're jumping to the conclusion that that's the point. Certainly many see removing the power possessions have over us as a positive, but art around this subject could be exploring it from different angles, and I don't see that stated anywhere in this installation. It could well be a celebration of consumerism[1], or just an exploration of obsession over possession. [1] Worth noting, the installation is sponsored by shopify
- waiseristy 10y agoThat's a fair read of the piece, I think I'm trying to subconsciously shoehorn my dislike of minimalism into my interpretation.
- throwanem 10y agoCurious: Whence comes the dislike?
- waiseristy 10y agoI'm a countercultural asshole =\
- throwanem 10y agoSo you're antiminimalist because Jonathan Ive is pro-? That seems an odd criterion. What would you do if he changed his style?
- cmyr 10y agoBefore taking a look at this I would encourage anyone to look into Michael Landy's Break Down[0][1][2], where the artist first cataloged and then destroyed everything he owned (except for a pair of overalls) including his vintage saab and all of his correspondence. That work at least has the weight of a real gesture. The linked work seems (generously) fairly banal by comparison. [0] https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down/ https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_Down_(Landy_artwork) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_Down_(Landy_artwork) [2] http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160713-michael-landy-the-man-who-destroyed-all-his-belongings http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160713-michael-landy-the-...
- synicalx 10y agoWhy would he have to destroy it all? Couldn't he give it away to someone who might need it or at least be able to use it? Just seems like a bit of a dick move all in the name of "art"
- morgante 10y agoHe seems to have a lot more possessions than me.
- Kluny 10y agoI'm interested in the four identical toques in different colors. Minimalism certainly doesn't seem to be the goal - why are there four? Is it a collection of designs that have earned their love? Are they really nice toques? Can we infer something about the owner's gender (probably bald, probably male)? Or their location (far north?) How committed to hipsterism is this guy? The "Raw denim jeans" - 4 pairs in varying stages of fadedness, but all of them definitely raw denim. Is it the "Little Prince" theory of how your possessions own you as much as you own them ? Is it a statement that your essence is a gestalt of all the things you own? There's a collection of wrenches and allen keys, as well as pots of fountain pen ink. "Hipster" isn't a precise enough term. How hard are you guys relating to this individual, purely through the stuff he's got? You can see that he lives in an apartment in a cool city, thinks of himself as practical as well as aesthete, probably thinks he's a rugged individualist too, but he's put a lot of effort into fitting in with a very specific demographic. I don't know. I guess I spent enough time thinking about it that's served it's purpose as art.
- throwanem 10y ago> why are there four? To coordinate with different outfits? I mean I don't care, I only have the one unadorned black one, but I can see where someone else might. (I also live in Baltimore, which is not so very far north. Anywhere temperate, a toque can be a handy thing to have - although we more often call them knit caps, down here. Nor am I bald; you don't need a shiny head to need something keeping it warm.) I don't grasp the intent, either. Perhaps there isn't one. Not long ago I might've written it off as pure wank, but just lately I've been thinking about how to compose my own photographs with artistic value, whatever that means - which makes it a little hard to indulge in the same kind of offhand dismissal I'd rather not have aimed at me.
- Kluny 10y agoYeah, I wouldn't dismiss it either. It might just be an experiment in mindfulness - not getting rid of stuff, but just thinking about each thing and seeing how it influences your life.
- amelius 10y agoIt would be nice to see the absolute minimum amount of stuff one would need to survive in the modern world (reasonably). This seems like a loose upper-bound.
- ouid 10y agoIt's very unlikely that such a global minimum exists if it is not zero, and it is probably zero if you consider all of the things which are free, and do not consider survival skills "stuff"
- amelius 10y agoA good way to find out is to put all your stuff in storage boxes, and only take it out when you absolutely need it.
- xkxx 10y agoIt would be much nicer if everything were on one page instead of 12. Scrolling down is easy and relaxing, moving your mouse and clicking on the next link breaks the flow.
- justifier 10y agoI am all for removing clutter from one's life.. i lived out of a backpack for more than seven years.. but honestly what I see is a lack of intellectual curiosity I have more capacitors I salvaged from street trash than 'all this person posses' I see a unfortunate homogeneity of subject matter There is a wide breadth of cultures and forms of knowledge and expression in the world I hope to involve as much of it in my life as possible
- inimino 10y agoDoes involving that stuff in your life require owning it? You could have a capacitor junk box at your local hacker space, for example.
- justifier 10y agofair, but if I have a storage unit do I 'possess' those things? If asked would you tell people you 'have in your life' thousands of books because you have access to a library in your community i also think it unnecessary for someone to have access to junked capacitors it was mentioned in response to the phrasing utilising 'all' which to me implied a preference for fewer things.. too many things would render the exercise of documenting it 'all' improbable.. and I was trying to express my own opinion of content stead numerosity when living in a comfortable yet clutter free environment also, i failed to see a bank statement or a pile of cash or stacks of gold bullion, so this all feels editorialised anyway
- inimino 10y agoI was responding primarily to this: > what I see is a lack of intellectual curiosity It seems ungenerous to say someone is intellectually uncurious because they don't express that curiosity by possessing stuff. > also, i failed to see a bank statement or a pile of cash or stacks of gold bullion, so this all feels editorialised anyway Yes, I didn't see a credit card anywhere. A notable omission, among others.
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- jeandejean 10y agoWhat about the bank account? I can virtually own nothing if I'm a billionaire and buy everything I need during the day. It wouldn't mean I own "nothing", and it would be an environmental nightmare!