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Photographer documents all items that she owns
- yaysyu 4y agoReminds me of this video [1] by self proclaimed Minimalist Matt D’Avella who also counted all their possessions. Fun stats: - Between him and his wife, they had 1600~ items - The average American has 300,000 items in their house [2] [1] https://youtu.be/BB8o8-EdZY0 https://youtu.be/BB8o8-EdZY0 [2] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2014-mar-21-la-he-keeping-stuff-20140322-story.html https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2014-mar-21-la-he-keep...
- tpmx 4y agoOn the 300,000 items claim: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50133/are-there-300-000-items-in-the-average-american-household-and-10-000-items-in-t https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50133/are-there...
- marcosdumay 4y agoDoes each nut and screw on the toolbox in front of me count as a different item?
- jonnycomputer 4y agoIf she breaks a plate, does she take two photos?
- BarryMilo 4y agoIf she replaces both halves of a broom at different times, how many photos is that?
- basicplus2 4y agoIve got a ton of photos of my granddads axe...
- rendall 4y ago"The Axe Riddle" from John Dies At The End > Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful truth of the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. > Say you have an ax - just a cheap one from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry - the man’s already dead. Maybe you should worry, ‘cause you’re the one who shot him. And you’re chopping off his head because even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face. > On the last swing, the handle splinters. You now have a broken ax. So you go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the handle as barbeque sauce. The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your house until the next spring when one rainy morning, a strange creature appears in your kitchen. So you grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however - Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. > As soon as you get home with your newly headed ax, though… You meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded last year, only he’s got a new head stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line and wears that unique expression of you’re-the-man-who-killed-me-last-winter resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life. > So you brandish your ax. “That’s the ax that beheaded me,” he rasps. > Is he right? https://youtu.be/9rQC7XC79w4 https://youtu.be/9rQC7XC79w4
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoTrigger's broom preceded this by about 30 years [0]. Then again the ship of Theseus is 2500 years older [1]. [0] https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- rendall 4y agoExcellent references, were GP talking about granddad's broom or granddad's ship!
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- ggm 4y agophotograph of the photograph. sets which can't contain themselves. Maybe a mirror shot?
- darkwater 4y agoIf sh actually printed every photo she took, you know recursion...
- lelandfe 4y agoI would encourage you not to visit her site directly, she is suffering from scale. It's got something like 1000 full size ~1MB images.
- dcow 4y agoAre you actually aware of this or simply suggjokeing that she is now?
- lelandfe 4y agoI’ve reread this sentence so many times and still don’t know what you’re asking.
- bowsamic 4y agoI think they’re trying to invent some new slang
- dcow 4y agoI asking if she’s actually having a hard time or not ffs.
- lelandfe 4y agoThe site has hundreds of megabytes of images embedded into it, the "suffering from scale" thing is to mean that her approach was totally fine for the first few dozen of images but is impractical now. (I'm still not sure what you're asking)
- dcow 4y agoI'm asking if you're being serious or not out of concern for the site author. I don't know how much more clear I can be. If I host hundreds of megabytes of images and get a lot of unexpected traffic I may or may not be hurting, it depends entirely on my setup. On one hand she's a photographer I'm sure she understands a bit about how big images can be. On the other hand she's a photographer and may not be prepared to handle the traffic or be facing a ridiculous bill. If the later was the case I was going to offer to help in some way like donate $5 or something to help cover her bandwidth costs. None of this matters now so whatever.
- mc32 4y agoYou have to set rules. Does a Lego set count as one item or 752 items + box, instructions + bags? Or 1 keychain vs keyring + tchotchke + keys? How many items is a bicycle?
- theoneness 4y agoand while we're dissecting artistic interpretation, is a single atom comprising any given item itself an item?
- brudgers 4y agoDoes the artist now have 25590 items?
- jader201 4y agoDo chairs exist? https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE
- clows 4y agoI'm sure there is an OOP joke here but it's probably private.
- waffleiron 4y agoProtocol → Each piece was photographed as a whole before being closed forever (any object later integrated into the room would not be part of the Katalog otherwise I might continue until my death). I then moved on to another room, and so on. → In order to avoid duplicates, Post-its were affixed to drawers or cupboards whose contents had been entirely photographed. I have excluded: → as a tenant, the fixed things in the house that I have not chosen, such as the bathtub, the sink, etc.; → food, which is fleeting; → objects that do not have their own volume, such as papers, letters, etc. I photograph together: → any object wrapped or attached to another; → objects that are more than 50 identical copies in all respects (sequins, straws, etc.); → objects forming part of a whole still present in their original container (board games, box of cotton swabs, etc.); → if, on the other hand, the object is no longer in its original box, it is considered unique and photographed separately (Lego brick, marble, etc.). https://www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com/english.html https://www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com/english.html
- rootw0rm 4y agoman, i have a shipping container of stuff...floor to ceiling. i probably have 12,000 pieces of laboratory glass =/
- mjthrowaway1 4y agoI had 10,000sqft of belongings up until a few months ago. About 100 stainless tables, 50 office chairs, desks, maybe 100+ racks, 20 chillers, 5 rotovaps, maybe 1000 beakers, etc. At this point I’m just giving away chromatography gear, HPLC chemicals, etc. Point is I never want to own anything again. Just getting rid of all this stuff has taken almost a year. I don’t even like owning my home anymore. /rant
- marincounty 4y agoI get it. I'm not into the "Throw it all away trend. That whole minimalism trend the wealthy can experiment with.", but when it comes to paying for a mini-storage (I'm just assuming); it's a win, win. I worked at two mini-storages whilein college on the weekends. I learned men and women valued different possessions. In 99% of the cases, the rent/fees did not add up, but we like our stuff. I get it. Once a month, an angry customer would empty their unit into a dumptster. The owner had signs up about dumping, but I wasen't paid enough to deal with the person who was at their last bit of hope, and decided Saturday was the day to finally dump it all. One out of 50 customers finally realized that junk they were hanging onto was not worth it. I did talk one guy out of getting rid of his first edition books though. I was watching him throw away case after case of books into the dumptster. I was sweeping near the dumptster. The first book I picked out of the trash, was a signed book by Hemingway. I knew he wasen't crazy, but he was angry with life. There was a part of me that just wanted him to leave, and my broke ass could make some good money selling the books. I decided to tell him forcefully that he was being rash. He took his books out of the trash, and put them back in his unit. I left the job a few weeks later. Always wondered how his life turned out. (If you ever have to use a mini-storage: 1. Prorate the rent to the 1 day of the month. Mini-storage owners love late fees. Pick a mini-storage with cameras. People steal, even the mini-storage owners. If renting on the top floor, and the owner only used chicken wire to enclose the ceiling of the unit; you are taking a risk. It's easy to get into your unit. Realize the hardest part of storage is moving your crap in. Most people leave their belongings in way to long. The mini-storage owners know this, and that's why you see ploys like 1st month free bs. I've always felt the government should provide all homeless individuals with free lockers. I saw so many people trying to live out of their car whike renting a unit. I only was one guy who succeed year, after year. My Mini-storage rant is over.)
- irrational 4y agoInsurance companies hate this one trick. Seriously, if she ever has a house fire, she will have an easier time than most reporting what she lost.
- HKH2 4y agoOnly 15 hours a week for easier insurance claims!
- jahnu 4y agoHehe. That said this does make me wonder if I shouldn’t just record a few long 4K 60fps video walking through our apartment opening cupboards and drawers and quickly scanning everything as a low effort catalog
- mackrevinack 4y agoyou could save yourself a ton storage space by using the timelapse mode on your phone's camera app. just set it to the shortest interval, which is usually 1 second
- MerelyMortal 4y agoThat's what I do. Relatively quick and easy, only need to parse if something actually happens. Just make sure the video is backed-up off-site.
- melony 4y agoYou get that working at a high enough accuracy and you will have an cashierless checkout company at hand.
- jxramos 4y agoexactly, I've dreamed about cataloguing a bunch of low res images of all my belongings just or inventory sake. So much junk to manage.
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- hourago 4y agoQuite often the easier way to be a minimalist is to get a small apartment. Nothing activates your brain as necessity. Most things I own are extremely practical, like spoons or pants, or I have a emotional attachment to them, like friends presents or items from my childhood. Even with that I still have way more items than this photographer. One last note, it also helps me to save money. Stuff that I like but I still do not buy because I want my apartment clutter free.
- rendall 4y agoManhattan apartments, similar. It's considered rude to gift an object, because the receiver will then be forced to find space for it.
- jackvalentine 4y agoI live in a Manhattan-sized 1br with my wife at the moment and one of her friends gave us _four_ martini glasses. They’re a major pain to store anywhere and what’s worse we don’t drink! I had a conversation with my wife about them that literally started with her saying “Yes, but it’s the thought that counts” and I had to cause marital strife by pointing out the severe lack of thought involved in giving us something we have to store in our tiny place and will never use.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoThe purpose of a gift is to be given/received. It is given to convey a sentiment. What you do after receiving it is entirely up to you. Don't fall into this trap of feeling obligating to keep an object you didn't ask for, nor expect. Love people, not things. I say this having had an impractically full home for 29 years, and now only just really figuring all this out. Finally have space to use what we do have.
- rendall 4y agoApplying those principles, I once immediately tossed a gift of a large, ugly toy dog, unpleasant even to touch, much less look at. The friend who gave it to me kept asking about it.
- justinator 4y agoIn the 90's there was an artsy site linked from Bud.com (which should take you back...) of a dude that was in the process of scanning everything he owned. This was back when merely hosting high-rez images was sort of an ordeal.
- dcow 4y agoI see a stand for a Macbook but no Macbook itself. The social commentary is on point. Truly art. (There is an old busted iPhone, but I'm willing to call it old enough that she does, indeed, own it since it's too old for Apple to repair themselves.)
- bhartzer 4y agoI’ve had two occasions in the past year where I needed to document everything. In both, I went room to room photographing everything. The first was was right before we moved from one state to another, about 12 hours away. Luckily we sold a lot of stuff (mainly on FB marketplace), which took literally about a year—you never know how much stuff you’ve accumulated until you move. And 20 plus years is a lot, with raising 2 kids. I took initial of everything, especially before we let people come through house when it was for sale. Then,6 months after being in the new house, there’s a wildfire within a few miles ( we live in national forest area of Colorado), and we are in the evacuation zone. So I’m frantically going around photographing room to room while the rest of the family grabs the important stuff like phones, tablets and laptops. And other essentials. Didn’t expect that, so now I’m working on cataloging everything.
- koonsolo 4y agoWhy would you photograph things in such an emergency, instead of taking things?
- k1t 4y agoIt's most likely faster to photograph things (for insurance purposes) than to pick it up and carry it with you.
- Aeolun 4y agoSo many things you forget about if you don't take photos... It's a waste of money.
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- bhartzer 4y agoYou take the important stuff, photograph the rest of the belongings in the house. You can’t take everything.
- jbm 4y agoOnly tangentially related, but I wasn't aware that Goldorak (Grandizer) was a thing in the United States. (It was huge in Quebec)
- 317070 4y agoThe artist lives in Belgium, and given Goldorak probably speaks French.
- helsinkiandrew 4y ago> 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects In 2001 Artist Michael Landy catalogued then publicly destroyed (in an old department store on Londons Oxford Street) all of his 7,227 possessions. https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down/ https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down/
- OJFord 4y agoTerm the catalogue entries 'NFTs' and suddenly they'll be worth a fortune!
- shapefrog 4y ago"would have been a great NFT project " My favourite from the comment section on the article.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoOr not. If you've been living under a rock, crypto prices are deservedly going through a rough time.
- OJFord 4y agoI didn't intend it as 'investing' advice. Regardless of recent crashes, all NFTs are valued (by at least one person) infinitely higher than they 'deserve'.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoAll things deserve to be worth exactly what somebody is willing to pay for them.
- Veen 4y agoThat’s a pithy axiom, but it ignores the reality that people are often willing to pay because of misunderstandings, inadequate information, fraud, lies, and cons.
- choeger 4y agoDid she take a photo of the camera?
- jacquesm 4y agomirror.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoYou probably have two cameras as a photographer. Use them to take pictures of each other.
- polyterative 4y agois that a picture of the mirror or the camera then?
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- jer0me 4y agoReminds me of the book Material World by Peter Menzel
- postit 4y agoI keep from late 90's a database of all stuff I own, bought and sold. Things from electronics (with full serial number and date of purchase, sell) to Pens and pencils. I have no idea why I still keep doing this, but it's handy for insurance.
- Unearned5161 4y agoI've been meaning to set something like this up, how is your database structured, what do you use?
- wil421 4y agoMy father has an inventory of everything with serials since the 1990s. He never sells anything so it’s all in the basement. My father-in-law takes the cake and has a 1,000 or more spreadsheets. He has chickens and keeps a spreadsheet on the costs per egg since he purchased the chicks. I think it’s down below 25¢ an egg.
- bbkane 4y agoHe should get some fun graphs in Excel and write a blog post
- atomize 4y agoDad? Is that you? :-D
- jhgb 4y agoExpense tracking? Expense prediction? Could be useful for many things.
- chrisshroba 4y agoWhat do you use to track this?
- moomin 4y agoOne of the fun things about Tick Tick Boom is that Jonathon Larson videotaped his apartment in quite a lot of detail for insurance purposes, so the cinematic recreation is incredibly accurate, down to the individual books on the shelves.
- k7vin 4y agoI love this. Thanks for sharing Currently doing it with objet.cc I don't do this as an inventory for insurance or even 'the final count' of my stuff, but to save the stories / anecdotes attached to my most beloved items. An example here: https://objet.cc/kev/travel-chess-board https://objet.cc/kev/travel-chess-board It makes me reflect on what I truly care about [re: physical things]; which dramatically increases my awareness when I intent to buy something new. Where does that 'desire' come from? Why should I buy this? Why that one instead of that one? etc.
- apricot13 4y agoreminds me of delicious library back in the day. it was really useful when lending dvds to friends! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_Library
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- yboris 4y agoSomewhat related: The 100 Thing Challenge https://zenhabits.net/minimalist-fun-the-100-things-challenge/ https://zenhabits.net/minimalist-fun-the-100-things-challeng... I think it's worth reflecting on the amount of possessions one owns and considering whether having fewer would make one's life better. 100 may be too few to have, but aiming for fewer than one has may be an improvement for many people's mental state.
- josefresco 4y agoIn the 90's my family went on a (rare) vacation out-of-state. My parents gave me a camcorder and told me to record everything in the house in case of robbery/fire etc. I meticulously went around to every room in our house and not only recorded video but supplied what I surely thought at the time ... was hilarious commentary. I REALLY wish I had that video today. While mundane at the time I would have loved to have seen my childhood home, and all our possessions now 30 years later. When I take photos now, I focus on people (not scenery) but this has me suspect there's enrichment to be had by documenting the "things" in your life.
- Aeolun 4y agoOnce in a while, like every 2 or 3 years, I deliberately go around my (current) house taking pictures of all the rooms. Seeing the pictures of my student apartment and the stuff in it is still one of my best sources of nostalgia.
- chrisshroba 4y agoSimilarly, sometimes I record conversations with my family so that I can listen to it years down the road (especially in the case where someone dies - my dad died 2 years ago and I haven't brought myself to listen to most of my recordings yet). Really reminds you of the real-ness of people who may no longer be in your life.
- c22 4y agoI take a photo of my desk every six months or so and put it in an album. I have desk photos going back over 20 years to when I was in high school and it's always amazing to look at the evolution of my setup and active projects over time.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoI expected more shoes.