1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs.
Towards a futurology of the object: Part 4 - Cut-out
A cut-out full scale version of the toy car.
Instructions:
'Take Time to Play With Your Kids'
'Take time to play with your kids,’ the ad campaign encourages. A recently acquired 1963 Ford Sunliner Convertible model would be the object of their shared fascination today.
"On The Road" book covers
"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous
Towards a futurology of the object: Part 3 - Replica
We are making replica copies of the toy car from the stunt copy that we have.
Tootsie (Film).
Tootsie.
"The Museum or the Object as Portal"
The blue post-it note reads: "The museum or the object as portal".
Here we go:
How many licks does it take to get to the centre of a tootsie?
Whilst our child was licking his way through the paint on the outside of his Tootsie Sunliner millions of children in the US were licking their way through cherry red hard candy to get to the choco
Towards a futurology of the object: Part 2 - Dowsing
A conversation with the object, through the medium of dowsing.
Yes= Back and forth
No= Circle