Show & Tell: August 2012

August 28, 2012

Show & Tell Participants from August 22, 2012

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Emma Williford holding a zebra tooth that she found in Africa.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Barbara Lynn Cantone holding a shiv disguised as a comb.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Pete Wagner holding a cast iron skillet that had once belonged to his grandmother.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Rebecca Short holding a Swiss army knife given to her while she was in the Girl Scouts.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Noa Cooper holding a personal massage device that's often mistaken for a sex toy.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Danielle LaSusa holding a pair of sunglasses given to her by her fiancé.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Jill Yoe holding a piece of folk art that reminds her of her home in Mississippi.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Daniel Short holding a broken compass given to him by his father.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Heather McCabe with a cigarette box holding her cats' fallen whiskers and claw casings.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Jeff Long holding a reproduction of a 1982 Nike sneaker he was once obsessed with.
(Photo by Cameron Blaylock)

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Big thanks to all participants and attendees, and extra-special thanks to Cam for taking the photos. The next installment of Show & Tell will be on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 8pm, at Freddy's. Hope to see you then.

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Show & Tell, hosted by journalist Paul Lukas, is a storytelling series in which anyone is welcome to bring an object of personal significance and talk about it for up to three minutes. There are no themes, no agendas. Interesting objects and the stories behind them are their own reward. Those who prefer not to participate are welcome to be part of the audience, since you can't have Show & Tell without people to be shown and told.

Show & Tell debuted in November of 2010 at the City Reliquary in Brooklyn and has taken place in a variety of venues since then. It is currently on hiatus but may return at some point in the future.

Show & Tell was largely undocumented for the first year and a half of its existence. This website, which is intended to be an archive of the objects and stories presented at Show & Tell, debuted in August of 2012. The logo at the top of the page and its various iterations were designed by Kirsten Hively.

To sign up for the Show & Tell email list, or if you want additional info about Show & Tell, contact Show & Tell host Paul Lukas.

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Other Projects
by Paul Lukas

• Uni Watch is an obsessive look at the world of sports uniform and logo design.

• Naming Wrongs is a line of T-shirts that pushes back against the selling of stadium and arena naming rights to corporate interests.

• Permanent Record began as an inquiry into the stories behind a batch of 1920s and ’30s report cards that were found in a discarded file cabinet, and has now expanded to become a broader examination of found objects and the stories they have to tell.

• Beer Frame: The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption, a zine published from 1993 through 2000, looked at consumer culture in excruciatingly close detail. Its first six issues were compiled into the book Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted, From the Everyday to the Obscure (Crown, 1997).

• My Pet Troll documents the relationship between a writer/webmaster and his most persistent and bellicose troll.

• The Candela Structures, a collaboration with the architect Kirsten Hively, documents the surprisingly complicated history of a set of super-cool fiberglass structures in Queens, New York.

• One-Man Focus Group, a weekly column that ran on The New Republic’s website in 2013, took a close look at the worlds of consumer culture, design, and branding.

• The Forewords, a collaboration with the writer Liz Clayton, are a lecture/slideshow "band" that has opened for the Magnetic Fields and performed while sitting in very, very high chairs, among other career highlights.

• Gromm•It explores the juxtapositions that result from the installation of metal grommets in unlikely surfaces, especially foodstuffs.

• Fire Wayne Hagin Already! chronicled the on-air foibles of a particularly incompetent baseball radio broadcaster and advocated for his dismissal.

• While not a distinct project per se, these articles written for the now-dormant design website re:Form all explore slightly eccentric topics, such as the design of membership cards, things that make a “click!” when they snap shut, and giant fiberglass animals.

Want to know more about any of this? Contact Paul Lukas.

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