[Collective Commons] Visuals of Interest

The repository for those visuals that I'd like to get rid of share with you lovely, yet silent folks that peruse these barely whispered parts of the sub-forum dropdown.

The exemplary exposition:

[visual] Significant Objects (ed. by Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker) - video preview


Details: Significant Objects by Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker (Fantagraphics ; 2012)

a literary and anthropological experiment whose first two phases ran from July 2009 through October 2010, demonstrated that the effect of narrative on any given object’s subjective value can be measured objectively.

The project auctioned off thrift-store objects via eBay; for item descriptions, short stories purpose-written by over 200 contributing writers, including Meg Cabot, William Gibson, Ben Greenman, Sheila Heti, Neil LaBute, Jonathan Lethem, Tom McCarthy, Lydia Millet, Jenny Offill, Bruce Sterling, Scarlett Thomas, and Colson Whitehead, were substituted.

The objects, purchased for $1.25 apiece on average, sold for nearly $8,000.00 in total. (Proceeds were distributed to the contributors, and to nonprofit creative writing organizations.)

Most recently, a book collection of some of our finest stories has been published by Fantagraphics.

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Image of a female archer from the fourth (revived) Olympic Games, held in London. (c) 1908

More detailed:
On target ...
Mrs. A (Beatrice) Hill-Lowe, bronze medal winner in the Women's National
Round Archery event at the 1908 London Olympics. -- (Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)


[NPR.] + [SMH.]

 

(originally pegged this to be shared a month ago)



Check out the commercial (currently playing overseas) for…. you guessed it… America.

 

(click thru to source at your own discretion)

details for the above:
seen at left: Larisa Latynina (having a bit of difficulty verifying if the above first cut is, in actuality, from the WAGC - Vault Comp., held in 1958)
seen at right: McKayla Maroney


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+ bonus

 

Five-year-old Ellie May Challis alongside South-African Olympic
sprinter Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius. -- (Photograph by Andy Hooper)


[DailyMail. / Yahoo!]

 

[Visual of Interest] Italo Romano, il ragazzo senza gambe star dello skateboard
Italo Fernandes Romano (Brasil)

The Curitiba native lost his lower limbs at 13 when he fell while playing with his friends on a moving train.
Romano refused to let the accident define him, and soon proved that even as half a man he’s twice the skater
many professionals are. ​

+ bonus VIEW Visual Featurette (foreign)

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-- Photograph by Brian Kushniruk, as captured in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadia. (11 of March, 2012)

author's comments:
A Sikh Motorcycle club was doing a photoshoot on the beach
and I was able to grab a few candids between their shots.