Toy Car Scrap Heap
What happens to old toy cars? Some, like this object end up in museums but what happens to the majority who don't make it into being saved for posterity?
Deciphering “high cockolorum”.
“High cockolorum” is often preceded by “with a”. It seems to mean “high energy”, “high jinks”, or “skip and a jump”, that type of thing.
Car examined under microscope
Libby Sheldon from the Department of Art History took the car to her department to examine it under a powerful microscope.
A Lick of Paint
A Lick of Paint, embossed print
Alchemy: Lead into Gold
Alchemy is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances d
“Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method” by Carlo Ginzburg
This article by Carlo Ginzberg seems to touch on the process of Object Retrieval in many ways.
Towards a Futurology of the Object: Part 6 - Back to The Future
To end, we go back to the future...
We Are Detective
"We Are Detective" by the Thompson Twins.
1963 and Tootsie: an analysis
This is a comparative analysis of stills of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra (a film from 1963 when our case presented), and Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie (the car is made by Tootsie Toys).
A poem made of words that the U.K. and U.S. do not agree on.
Hospitalisation.
Sniveling Esophagus,
Diarrhoea, Humourless.
Misbehaviour, Agonizing,
Unraveling,
Traumatized.