Collections and Collections
I’ve been thinking of this blog as a collection - links and short blurbs on things that I have found interesting. A bibliography of sorts.
I love to collect. When I was a girl I collected TY Beanie Babies (I recently found a box of them: about 50 small adorable beady eyed little creatures). I’ve collected every ticket stub and receipt from concerts and traveling that I’ve done over the past 6 years and I keep them in a little chocolate box that I received from my first admirer. One of my favourite collections is that of strangely shaped paper clips, that I found mostly in my work in the archives of a Pension Fund I worked at for two years, and that I continue to add to when I find I have the chance.
So, in the same vein of collection, I decided to go out and collect some twitter feeds today, and I spent the morning rounding up (particularly) Canadian Museum twitter feeds and added them to my roster. I also added them to a website called paper.li - a website that uses a list of users to create an auto-generated newspaper form bulletin for every 24 hours. I will be using this myself as a collection ground - what are these institutions talking about every day? I’ve decided to share it on my twitter feed as well, so if you’re interested, give it a look.
http://paper.li/artfulword/artful-word-2
Another collection I would like to draw your eye to is that of Herb and Dorothy’s http://www.herbanddorothy.com/ a fantastically cute little documentary that I’m hoping to get my hands on very soon.
