Private, I

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.

My own personal found items:

1.A Pastor Is Fired: From what I can tell, this is a recorded meeting of a congregation of 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.
8. Twilight Lounge
9. What God wants …
10.Planted note
11. Tom Hanks and Tighty Whities
12. Christmas 1999
13. Bob Hopes Entire Life
14. Depressing Finds

On the web:
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