Three Flying Ducks & Anglers and Utopias
The three ducks are a representation of someone who collects things that are unique and original and someone who collects things that are masses produced.
Pokemon and baseball cards have been collected for a very long time. How does this action differ from someone collecting a one-of-a-kind painting? How does this differ from someone who is buying an old piece of furniture because it is completely original? How has mass production and companies' intentionality behind collector's items changed how people collect things and their mindsets behind that?
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The second part of the reading was about a man named Alex Shear and his battle with collecting stuff and his autistic brain. It is interesting to see this correlation between someone having autism and wanting to collect objects.
Presentation
Three Flying:
- someone who collects unique paintings, antique people
- colletors like baseball cards and bottle caps and what those mean
- three flying ducks - are they both?
Anglers and utopias:
- collectors into gender roles of this, signs of autism
- the guy says he's an anthropologist - a "picker"
- he gets it from his dad
- saying he wants to rebuild his father's collection
-talking about his experience as a twin shaped him into a backup almost, he didn't know who he was
- his collection is autobiographical
- he said, "Why is this important? (talking about recalling shrunk coke cans) Well, Coke doesn't make mistakes. This is important for the kids. This is why this has to be cataloged.
- he made a statement about these everyday household things have to be collected; there is nothing like them in the Smithsonian.
-they are just as beautiful to our life I guess, as the pieces of art that are uniquely collected.
- after his divorce, he dedicated his life to his work completely
- it is to be authentic, to be human.
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