I’ve made a new section to the Boont Dustie site, geared specifically towards found items. You can navigate to it quickly through the top navigation menu (Journal, About, etc…).
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Once I had this dream that the demi-god of free boxes visited me (when I say “free” boxes, I mean the ones people leave out on the street corner.) This divine entity bore a striking resemblance to Samuel L. Jackson.
I’m trying to work out the reasoning behind why we founders do what we do. Are we sick voyeurs? Or is this is a spiritual endeavour?
While I continue to try and figure this out, here is a new collection of my favorite links all about found things, and/or private things made public.
1. Over Heard in New York – Eavesdropped conversations from the Big Apple.
2. 10 Eastern - My favorite part of this site are the photographs they lift off people’s shared directory’s using soulseek or some other filesharing client. There are also drawing boards for people to post anonymous pictures of their secrets.
3. Group Hug - anonymous online confessions.
4. Post Secret - people mail in their secrets on postcards.
5. Secret Web Cams - A google hack that allows anyone to view unsecured security cameras!
6. Is this you? - Perhaps reunite yourself with one of your long lost photobooth pictures.
7. Junior Bonner has a good list of sites about vernacular photography.
8.Found Magazine – Original canon.
9.Swapatorium A Journey Through Junkland – Flea Markets, Thrift Stores, Antique Shops, Garage & Estate Sales, Found Photographs, Collecting, Odd Finds, Swaps
10. Who Is Benjamin Stove? Website that claims to be trying to solve the mystery of a crop circle painting found at an estate sale, but also a possible viral marketing campaign (thanks Tim Boucher). Either way, fascinating!
My own personal found items:
1.A Pastor Is Fired: From what I can tell, this is a recorded meeting of a congregation of Eureka CA Baptists airing their grievances against their local pastor, and eventually taking “disciplinary” action and firing him. It has tons of drama and gossip and intense emotions – and I presume it was never meant to be heard in public.
2.Life Is Tough, God is Tougher: A whole slew of photos (of a youth pastor) I found in a knocked over garbage can. Not only did he toss out these jumbo size portraits, but I also got his thrown out answering machine with a message that leaves the whole affair an utter mystery.
3.Diary! - Excerpts from a diary I found.
4. Dead Cat A flier about a dead cat.
5. The Hour Like The Rock obviously written by someone who’s taken one too many gravity bong hits.
6. God’s Promise – A little collage found in Berkeley.
7. Citibank This crazy guy thinks that Citibank is out to get him, and started posting these up around the Humboldt State campus.
More to come… (please send additional links to boontdustie AT gmail.com).
God, I’d totally forgotten about the Citibank letter. Did I tell you I found a postcard on the sidewalk in Alameda that had been mailed from Hong Kong to the US in the 30’s? On the front was the ugliest fucking picture of some type of tree or plant or something, and I can’t recall the message offhand, which leads me to believe that it wasn’t very intriguing. I’ll see if I can scan it and send it to you.
Dude we have to go to the coast after or during a storm. You can find soda bottles with asian characters on them!
El – you know what I am trying to find is that four page manifesto from that crazy guy in Arcata. Okay, that probably doesn’t help narrow things down at all.
What I am specifically referring to is this guy that passed out these papers after the fire at the NorthCoast Environmental center, that said how “the Oregon Plates Man” had been spying on him for months, and that the OPM was trying to frame him for the arson. Remember that?