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Procreate
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Animals stop at nothing to reproduce. They will
fight for the chance to do so. If you don’t, you can
forget about a partner in the animal world. Take
the red deer. When mating season comes they
start to belt out a kind of primal cry. They know:
it is time to fight. The does gather to watch. The
bucks arrive. They take aim with their antlers and
they fight. The winner leaves there with a herd of
hinds. He who loses can look forward to a soli-
tary existence. Sometimes even death. Fighting
requires much of a red deer. After the fight they
are weak. Wolves are on the prowl.
That is how it goes for the red deer. We humans
from time to time show similar behaviour. We still
fight for a woman occasionally. It is not usual.
Call it civilisation or progress. It has provided us
with clothing, make-up, hairdressers and plastic
surgeons. It is all about appearances. We seem
like birds of paradise. The males with the most
magnificent feather ornaments seduce the most
females. The long-tailed paradise bird is the larg-
est showboat of all. He measures 117 cm. Cut off
its 93 cm tail and all that is left is a tiny bird. Fly-
ing is difficult for him. But it is not necessary. On
Papua New Guinea there aren’t many carnivores,
so you can afford to have an extravagant bunch
of feathers.
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Now, to get to the point: collecting. Its advantages
are disputed. Most people rather throw away things
than keep them. People who do keep things are
forced to explain why. What is the value of a collec-
tion of Elvis-knickknacks? Why should you have all
LP’s of the Beatles in your possession? What to do
with a showcase filled with model-cars, a room full
of teddy bears or boxes full of sugar bags?
For us collectors there’s the Amblyornis Inornatus
also known as the Wandamen Mountain Bowerbird.
As mating season comes the male builds a half
Martijn Brugman / MAEB
Collectors Procreate
open maisonette of brushwood, his bower. Then
he starts to collect. Hundreds of stones, flowers,
shells, feathers, beetles and bits of glass. The
items are arranged. He is busy for hours. Each
object gets its own spot. Every bird’s assortment
is unique. When the males are ready the females
come. They visit the males. They examine the
treasures. They step inside the bower at the most
impressing collection. The male then knows: you
are mine. Offspring is soon expected.
Martijn Brugman
www.maeb.nl
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Saint Alphonsus Liguori

born: Marianella, September 27, 1696
died: Nocera die Pagani, August 1, 1787

He was a lawyer who became a priest after an unsuccessful trial.

When he visited a hospital he saw a strange light and the building
began to shake and he heard a voice saying; ‘Leave the world and
give thyself to me!’
It was God.

Alphonsus became a hard liner, a moralist. As a bishop he ordered

prostitutes to be buried on the garbage dump and had ‘frivolous’
engravings destroyed. He was always in trouble, people did not like
Theun Karelse
Flying Saints

him, and he had fights with Popes and moved from one crisis to the
next. When Pope Pius the 4th put and end to his career, he suffered
depression, anxieties and evil temptations.

Alphonsus wore chains round his ankles and wrists and a cross full
of nails on his chest and back. He would hit himself until he bled in
an old cave and saw Mary appear naked before him. He wrote the
most famous book on Maria ever written; ‘Gloria di Maria’.

His hobbies included riding, fencing, playing cards and the opera.

Distinguisable features:
Wingspan: 1,72 m
Weight (approx): 41 kg
Range and distribution: Italy
Color: red and white tunic.
Special Features: a pen.
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Saint Catherine of Siena

born: Siena 1347
died: Rome April 29 1380
Doctor of the Church and patron saint of Italy.

She was the 23rd child of Jacopo Benincasa. She saw angels as
clearly as ordinary people. Aged 7, after a vision of ‘Christ in glory’
she promised her virginity to Him. To show her determination not
to marry, she cut off her hair. Her family was furious, but Jacopo
ordered her to be left alone and allowed a room for prayer.

She mystically married Jesus and his foreskin served as a wedding

ring. After her death her hand with the praeputium of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth became a relic and the famous part of the penis of the
lord, though invisible, was told to swell and turn red for two virgins.
She liked to be humiliated and drank cupfuls of cancerous puss
from a sick woman that abused her.

Catherine got the Pope to move back to Italy from France. In 1378
the Great Schism began and devastated Catherine. She had a
seizure and died.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,62 m
Weight (approx): 44 kg
Range and distribution: Italy
Color: white and brown tunic.
Special features: ring, stigmata, lily.
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Saint Francis Fasani

born: Lucera, August 6, 1681
died: Lucera, November 29, 1742

Also known as Anthony Fasani, a priest and teacher of philosophy,

who when praying sometimes rose above the ground. He thought
the fastest way to become a saint was trough laughter.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,76 m
Weight (approx): 83 kg
Range and distribution: Italy
Color: black tunic and beard
Special features: none
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Saint Francis Xavier

born: castle of Xavier, April 7, 1506
died: on the Isle of Sancian near China, December 3, 1552
Apostle of the Indies and Japan.

After completing his philosophical studies in France, Xavier received

the degree of Master of Arts and was a lecturer on Aristotelian logic,
physics and metaphysics. He then turned to theology. In 1541 he
went to the Indies and Japan.

Apparently a hardworking man, he was a tremendously successful

missionary, courageously dined with head hunters, washed scores
of lepers in Venice and baptized 10.000 children in a single month.
He spoke many languages and died in China when he contracted
a fever.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,70 m
Weight (approx) : 72 kg
Range and distribution: Spain, Italy, India, West-Indies, Japan.
Color: black tunic and beard
Special features: a bell, a torch, a globe or cross and lilies.
 Saint Joseph of Cupertino
born: Cupertino, June 17, 1603
died: Osimo, September 18, 1663
A Franciscan friar whose ecstatic flights
earned him the title ‘Flying Friar’.

As a boy he was sickly, absent-minded, nervous and extremely hot

tempered and quite useless because his ecstasies made it impos-
sible to do any jobs. He had the habit of stopping in the middle of
24 a sentence, not remembering the conversation and to stand still or
kneel at awkward moments.

Joseph was sent to Grotella in 1628 where he performed many

miracles. For 10 years the surrounding countryside witnessed the
wonders of the friar. He kept drawing such crowds, that his desper-
ate superiors sent him from convent to convent, hidden from the
world and basically imprisoned.

His life was in danger when he was denounced to the Inquisition

at Naples, but was freed after three ‘examinations’. He was sent to
Pope Urban the 8th and when Joseph saw the Holy Father he flew
into the air until the Pope ordered him down. Hordes of Pilgrims
followed Joseph around, the Spanish ambassador and his group
saw him take off over their heads to the high altar, uttering his usual
shrill cry, and the Duke of Brunswick became a Catholic after twice
seeing Joseph in ecstasy.

The brothers used needles and burning embers to try and get his
attention, but they could not get him out off trance. He would be
caught by a vision that fixed him like a statue. He might fly around
with his plate at dinner or suddenly fly into a tree when working
outside, completely caught by amazement of the world.

Pope Innocent the 10th ordered him to retire and he spent the rest
of his life in complete seclusion.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,66 m
Weight (approx): 62 kg
Range and distribution: Italy
Color: various
Special features: none
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Saint Ludgardis of Tongeren

born: Tongeren, 1182
died: Abby of Aywieres, June 16, 1246

Jesus appeared to her when she was a young girl. She was one of
the first to venerate the Holy Hart of Jesus. Ludgardis was one of the
great many holy virgins, all saints are.

Some of the nuns identified so strongly with Mary that they slept
with a little Jesus doll and fed it. They would actually feel pregnant
with the Lord.

The denial of lust could cause the lives of saints to be completely

dominated by desire. To take the mind of such things they would in-
flict pain on themselves. But it was also accepted for nuns that were
afflicted with the ‘furor uterinus’ to use false penises or candles.
The ‘godemiché’ or ‘plaisir des dames’ was a 21,5 cm long object
covered with drawings and equipped with two balls filled with milk
that could serve as the ejaculation. In 1780 there even was a factory
for these things in Paris.

Ludgardis had many visions and sometimes levitations, which made

her famous, even abroad. The last 11 years of her life she was blind.

Distiguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,67 m
Weight (approx): 88 kg
Range and distribution: Belgium
Color: black and white tunic
Special features: hart
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Saint Peter Claver

born: Verdu, 1580
died: Cartagena, 1654

Claver, Jesuit missionary, ‘Saint of the Slaves’, was not only a mis-
sionary but a doctor and teacher. He greeted the incoming ships
at Cartagena coming from Africa with a small group of interpreters.
Carrying the Holy Cross, he went into the slave ships where on the
long voyages epidemics and suffering had taken their toll, there he
tended the ill.

He converted more than 300.000 by 1615. Stories of his miracles

passed among the slave community.

In his last years he suffered a paralysis.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,60 m
Weight (approx): 59 kg
Range and distribution: Spain,
South-America.
Color: black tunic
Special features: accompanied by slaves or insects
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Saint Theresa of Avila

born: Avila, march 28, 1515
died: Alba, oct 4, 1582
A pretty girl who grew up reading about saints
and played at being a hermit in the garden.

As a teenager she cared only about boys and clothes like all kids.
Being popular made it difficult to become a nun but she did anyway.
Immediately she got malaria, and the medication she received was
poor so she never really recovered. She started having visions.

One eyewitness Sister Anne of the Incarnation said Theresa

levitated a 40 cm of the ground for about half an hour. She would
crawl around on the floor in ecstasy calling for her ‘sweet beloved
Youngman’.

‘It seemed to me when I tried to make some resistance, as if a great

force beneath my feet lifted me up. I know of nothing with which to
compare it, but it was much more violent than other spiritual visita-
tions, and I was therefore as one ground to pieces’.

Distinguishable features:
Wingspan: 1,59 m
Weight (approx): 58 kg
Range and distribution: Spain
Color: various
Special features: an arrow, heart and arrow or whispering pigeon
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Albertus Winkel Manon van Kouswijk Sander Luske

Retired construction worker Expressive Artist Designer
Vriezenveen, the Netherlands Amsterdam, the Netherlands Arnhem, the Netherlands

Figurines and Gnomes Lepidoptera Domestica Trow-away Cutlery

Unknown number of items 638 items 100+ items

Started collecting ‘rather more than
30 years ago’ a cousin and her
daughter started to make figurines
and gnomes, he found them ‘simply
beautiful’ and he started to collect
them. It has gotten out of hand a
bit since then. He does not have a
Index 1
In 2005 it innocently started with As a designer I am fascinated by a
the carving and cutting of butterflies throw-away product like a fork to
from a few objects. eat fries with because it exists in so
many alternatives. Started in 1990.
Photography by:
Uta Eisenreich

preference for gnomes or mills every-

thing is welcome. He combs through
flea- markets, meets another collec-
tor from time to time to exchange
objects with and furthermore he gets
much from friends, acquaintances
that have found something for him
or have something to discard, also
collections of people that have died
are brought to him.

Photography by:
Thijs de Lange
www.thijsdelange.nl
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Jan-Willem Doornenbal
Information Designer
Haarlem, the Netherlands
Lost Cat Posters
410 items
I think about ten years ago (when
I was studying at the Rietveld
Academy) I wanted to design things
which would seamlessly fit in the
street scene, and would start to look
strange when it’s closely looked at.
These little posters vary from ordi-
nary rough draft notes to beautiful
designs, but in the background there
are people everywhere who care for
their cats and show this affection in
many different ways.
www.fo.am www.bouwevandermolen.com
www.flyingsaints.blogspot.com
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Theun Karelse Bouwe van der Molen
Illustator/Researcher Graphic Designer
Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Flying Saints Cross-bred Animals
22 items 217 items
In 2000, after researching levitation I started cross-breeding plastic ani-
in the library. There I encountered an mals two years ago when my brother
article concerning levitation in the asked me to make an identity for his
Catholic Encyclopaedia, where some band ‘Livesized’. It has become an
names of saints were mentioned! addiction.
There was no book on this subject.
So I decided to write a book concern-
ing the matter. In the same format as
bird guides, with images of saints in
full flight.
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Digital Materia Obscura
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“BibliOdyssey is a visual weblog of rare book
illustrations, graphic art, illuminated manuscripts,
lithographs and Renaissance prints, gathered
from across the internet.”
“In general, individual entries focus on a specific
book, illustrator or motif. The images are accompa-
nied by written background and links to the source
material and further information. The unifying
theme –visual materia obscura– was a phrase
plucked from the ether as I hastily sketched out
the intent of the site when it began two years ago.”
The above is Paul K’s introduction to the book that
was published based on his blog.
I’ve been a long-time user of BibliOdyssey and its
del.icio.us archives. As a graphic designer I draw
inspiration from these works dug-up from the
archival trenches of the internet. I approached the
blog’s maker to ask him about digital collecting.
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BM: It seems a collector is a special kind of animal.
Most collectors do not stop at one collection, many
of them collect collections. Have you always been
a collector, and if so, what did you first collect?
PK: It would be true to say that I have been a ‘pas-
sionate’ person all my life. By this, I mean that,
whatever I have been involved with, whatever has
held my interest, I have been fairly besotted or
obsessed with pursuing it. As a youngster this was
mostly sport: soccer and athletics. From the age
of 10 to 15 I was a very keen collector of stamps.
It wasn’t just me, my brother and mother also
collected, although we did it individually. It was
a way to learn about countries and to see how
their culture was represented in illustrations and
also became something of a jigsaw puzzle, where
I had some parts and spent a lot of time trying
to find missing stamps. We were fortunate in so
far as a friend of my father’s died and left us a
box that contained thousands of stamps, quite a
few of them rare and worth a lot of money. I think
my mother still collects them sometimes, but my
brother and I both lost interest eventually. I think
that was about the only background to collecting
that I can think of in my life.
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www.ilijin.com/worldmap.htm
it is all at the end
of a mouse click
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BM: Many collectors are continuously searching
for the next mint condition ‘missing’ item. The
material value of a historic image on the internet is
nihil, whereas the value of their physical originals
can be priceless. What are the differences between
a physical collection, and a digital one?
PK: I suppose the most obvious difference is that
income, price and market economics play no real
part in the online world. Surveying and collecting
from existing digital material (as opposed to, say,
purchasing specific books and prints and scanning
and uploading them yourself – which is not what
I do) is totally egalitarian and so becomes a func-
tion of dedication, time and searching and is not
limited by what you can afford. Nor is it limited by
what interesting pieces are available in the mar-
ketplace. In my world, all the pieces to make up a
collection are, to all intents and purposes, already
there. So it is simply (!) a matter of finding them.
One of the main reasons that prints and illustra-
tions appealed to me, beyond their artistic inter-
est, was because the digital medium is only able
to cope well with 2-dimensional objects. It is very
difficult to get a proper appreciation of sculptural
pieces nor, indeed, can one appreciate the depth
of the paint on canvas in traditional painting art
(this is just my opinion).
Sculpture and painting are definitely artistic
pursuits whose aesthetic qualities are best expe-
rienced in the real world. The so-called ‘flat art’
of prints, etchings, book engravings, watercolour
sketches and drawings are able to be appreciated
to a close approximation to the physical world by
viewing digital images of the originals; or at least,
there is not much lost by seeing them on a com-
puter screen versus in a book on the desk in front
of you. In the real world 99.99999% of people of
the world are not curators or gallery workers or
even library workers so we are all subject to the
capricious tastes and indulgences and timing and
locations decided by the controllers and gallery
owners and local policies (and politics too) as to
where art exhibitions can be experienced. If you
don’t live in a big city or you have a very busy life
or you are not very mobile, then your access to art
is severely restricted. On the internet, it is all at
the end of a mouse click. And, if you are like me
and you want to find the hidden, unusual gems in
renaissance prints or Victorian books that most
people didn’t even know existed (including me),
then there are free blog services in which you can
be your own curator; in which you can display
your own collection(s). It’s that simple. It’s total
freedom. The only restriction is your own imagina-
tion and desire.
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Creating a digital collection also means that there
are no geographical (or geopolitical, for that mat-
ter) boundaries that will prevent you from forming
a group of images that come from a wide range of
countries. I’m able to follow an artist or a thematic
subject without worrying about where the individu-
al artworks are located. I can have one picture from
Germany, one from Ecuador, one from New York
and so on – building up a collection from artist ‘A’
or from, say, the pre-Raphaelites. In the real world,
it might be once a decade where a touring exhibi-
tion of major works dealing with one artist or one
subject is assembled. And of course, you will need
to live near to the exhibition gallery or be able to
go there when the exhibition is showing.
A digital collection allows a greater user control
too with respect to accessing background informa-
tion. Although real world galleries are good and
have taped and written descriptions you can hear
and read as you walk around, it will always pale
in comparison to the extent of information that
you can find using a search engine. Again, it’s the
freedom you have to go as deep as you want.
The same might be said (in many cases) for look-
ing closely at images. When you are in the real
world, artworks are either under glass or behind
rope lines. It’s impossible to see the amazing
details up close; but often with digital images
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there are zooming features that let you see details
at much higher magnification that you could see in
real life, even with your eye up close to the picture.
In that way, digital images can actually improve the
experience of appreciating the artworks. I would
not say it is always an advantage however. And I
would not try to argue that it’s better to see the
digital image versus physical object (and the only
overriding advantage is the zooming ability to my
mind). I believe it is always preferable to see the
real illustration. It allows a full appreciation of the
context –the look of the paper, the wear and tear
on a book, the degree of staining in a manuscript–
and many of these details give greater life to the
artwork, make their significance and fragility more
deeply felt.
Sometimes we are at the mercy of the technology
which means digital images are not as good as the
physical counterpart. Poor quality photographs,
low resolution files, incorrect processing, unbal-
anced colours, stupid file type choice… all of these
factors can contribute to make the visual quality of
an image less ‘real’ or a poor substitute to seeing
the original. In some cases this can alter a per-
son’s understanding of an artist or artwork where-
by they form a negative opinion based on poor
digital quality. (This can happen a little bit in the
physical world too, though. If you go to an exhibi-
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tion and the lighting is very poor or it’s so crowded
that you don’t get enough time standing in the
‘sweet’ spot where the object can be best appreci-
ated, you might walk away being underwhelmed.)
At least online, if you do encounter a poor quality
digital image, there is always the possibility that
if you search further, you might just find another
image of the same drawing or illustration made by
another gallery or library which is of higher quality
and closer to the seeing the original.
There are some subtle contrasting differences too.
When you have to plan to visit an exhibition and
it takes effort, your mind is concentrated on the
objects you are going to see. You make sure that
you spend the time and try and take in the object
qualities because it has required energy on your
part to have this experience. This is also enhanced
by them being in “hallowed” galleries and libraries
that make the experience all the more important
(quasi-religious sometimes). When we are in the
exhibition space, there is at least some level of
peer interaction: we see and hear other people
reacting to the display which can make us more
aware and ‘tuned in’ to absorb the atmosphere and
make the visit a lasting memory.
Online we have a tendency towards very short
attention spans and so displays of great art, at
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which we may spend some hours experiencing
in the real world, can be skimmed in 5 minutes
if we encounter them at the ‘wrong’ time in our
web viewing schedule. It’s easy to understand
someone being less than impressed if they spend
2 seconds looking at a Leonardo anatomy sketch
just because the web mentality imposes a kind of
quantity-over-quality mindset. We don’t linger for
the same length of time as we do in a gallery. If
someone doesn’t point out why some piece is rare
or unique or amazing, then we are just as likely to
skip over it and miss an opportunity to ‘feel’ more
about the encounter. Similarly, in real galleries,
it’s often easy in our wandering to identify the
most valuable or rarest material because it’s obvi-
ous by the way it’s displayed. Online, everything is
‘worth’ the same.
I fear I may have missed a central part of your
question in my contrasting the physical and digital
dimensions of display and viewing quality. I’m not
sure if this really addresses so much the ‘collec-
tion’ expectations of your question necessarily.
But then again, I am only speaking here about that
which I know: illustration collections.
Let me add this: Both real and digital worlds offer
advantages and disadvantages and I believe now,
after thinking about all of the above observations,
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that our lives can be best enhanced by experi- galleries or buy a book or start a course of study.
encing both of these dimensions. Go and see an I like to know that people are moved by similar
exhibition. Find a book or an artist or a genre that appreciation of amazing artistic works. A paral-
you find attractive or moving or amazing. Then go lel consequence of having my blog is that it has
online and research it further. occasionally motivated other people to start their
own curating blog and yet other people have said
Oh, one thing I completely forgot but is fairly that the way I curate my blog has influenced the
important to me is the ability that digital files offer way they curate their blog. All of these effects are
in terms of adjusting images. It means that, for my important to me but they remain the cream on the
purposes, I can use a paint or photoshop program cake. It is still a hobby, a passion that I pursue for
and remove age related marks and stains to get my own intellectual stimulation first and foremost.
the illustration looking closer to how it was when
it was first made. The beauty of course is that this
kind of “restoration” doesn’t harm the original but Interview conducted by Bouwe van der Molen
let’s us see it more clearly.

BM: I suspect that, like the keeper of a diary, the

collector is making a document for posterity–
something to be remembered by. What do you
hope the visitors of your blog will learn from your
digital collection?

PK: My modest hope is that the displays –the col-

lections– that I put up on my website cause some
similar ripples of interest; that people will see
some weird or wonderful illustration and they will
read the background commentary that I usually
provide and be prompted to go and research fur-
ther about the subject or artist, that they will go to
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LOGGED IN AS: votske
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NAME: votske
RANKING: 3
SHOE SIZE: US 8.5
AGE: 27 YRS
LOCATION: NL
JOINED: 6th December 2003
POSTS: 4154
URL: http://www.subwalk.nl
FAVOURITE SHOES:
air max 87, 90 & 93, sk8 high, suede / clyde,
dunk high & low, presto, mowabb
FORUM SIGNATURE:
The Notorious J.O.S.
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Sneakers
Votske™
Posted:
06. April. 2008 - 20:48:54
[01] vochel @ 07. 04. 08 - 10:17:54
switi jos
.................................................................
[02] elperro @ 07. 04. 08 - 03:28:14
Nice, even if not made in England...
.................................................................
[03] papitas @ 07. 04. 08 - 01:47:00
Lime... yummy
.................................................................
[04] Gonz @ 06. 04. 08 - 22:41:39
Very you J....when are you coming to
London BTW?
.................................................................
[05] llywarch @ 06. 04. 08 - 22:27:11
Proper Jos!
.................................................................
[06] Tommy-Tan @ 06. 04. 08 - 22:22:02
Quality mate
.................................................................
[07] AirAlarm @ 06. 04. 08 - 22:15:12
dope jos!
.................................................................
Posted:
05. April. 2008 - 09:40:13
[01] babatunde1 @ 06. 04. 08 - 03:10:00
love the sendhelps.
.................................................................
[02] R_N_S @ 05. 04. 08 - 20:19:25
Curries for me too. Wierd pic though...
.................................................................
[03] elperro @ 05. 04. 08 - 15:39:01
Curries...
.................................................................
[04] vochel @ 05. 04. 08 - 14:47:25
i need another pair of send helps, dope
jos!
.................................................................
[05] Sneaker52 @ 05. 04. 08 - 14:42:17
I need the currys and send helps
.................................................................
[06] braniff intl @ 05. 04. 08 - 13:03:27
Nice Jos.
.................................................................
[07] AirAlarm @ 05. 04. 08 - 12:55:18
HEHE!
im seeing subwalk
send helps for me
.................................................................
[08] Big Spoon @ 05. 04. 08 - 12:50:04
send helps and curries are both lush!
.................................................................
[09] sausage @ 05. 04. 08 - 11:32:04
cullies fol me
.................................................................
[10] crookiecook @ 05. 04. 08 - 11:23:31
whore
.................................................................
[11] roblobster @ 05. 04. 08 - 11:16:21
c´s take it, but all nice!
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 Posted:

08. March. 2008 - 09:4

[01] llywarch @ 08. 03

YES!!!!!
.....................................

[02] basel4000 @ 08. 0

you make em lookin go
.....................................

[03] braniff intl @ 08. 0

Niceness Jos.
.....................................

[04] johnnysmith1500 @
11:49:19
Posted: Posted: Great looking shoe.
.....................................
01. April. 2008 - 20:55:30 02. March. 2008 - 20:32:39
[05] hobbster2001 @ 0
[01] frasemac27 @ 04. 04. 08 - 22:43:45 [01] Sneaker52 @ 03. 03. 08 - 20:23:10 very nice
love the 180,adis are fresh i regret not buying both the colours of the .....................................
................................................................. DCs in the main-source sale, sure they were
elss than £30 too :-( [06] saul goode @ 08.
[02] Black X List @ 03. 04. 08 - 14:50:06 ................................................................. nice, woulda liked thes
I like some of the 90s boots, and these .....................................
57
look much better on than I’d imagined, I’d [02] stephan2 @ 03. 03. 08 - 15:07:04
be tempted if I see em okwahns for me! Posted: [07] ayrmax @ 08. 03.
................................................................. ................................................................. Lovely
07. March. 2008 - 10:11:41 .....................................
[03] FRESHHORST @ 02. 04. 08 - [03] johnnysmith1500 @ 03. 03. 08 -
23:35:40 08:04:33 [01] dranonymus @ 07. 03. 08 - 17:45:49
180s rule! Okwahns are my choice. kwinz said it...
................................................................. ................................................................. .................................................................

[04] dewantod @ 02. 04. 08 - 13:55:01 [04] H4ZMAT @ 03. 03. 08 - 00:19:54 [02] elperro @ 07. 03. 08 - 12:54:27
jabbar for me..... oh i do like those DCs Really like those TNTs...
................................................................. ................................................................. .................................................................

[05] vochel @ 02. 04. 08 - 13:03:56 [05] votske @ 02. 03. 08 - 20:32:42 [03] Gonz @ 07. 03. 08 - 12:42:30
i like jos! af 180’s for me.. yesterday daytime: okwahns Sorry J....meant ‘Lookin good J’.....
................................................................. yesterday nighttime: 180 beaters .................................................................
today: DCs
[06] Flashboy @ 02. 04. 08 - 09:34:47 ................................................................. [04] Gonz @ 07. 03. 08 - 12:21:51
so some1 bought these 90 boots? Lookin good Q
................................................................. .................................................................

[07] papitas @ 02. 04. 08 - 08:18:13 [05] braniff intl @ 07. 03. 08 - 12:04:45
180s are so dope. What Q said.
................................................................. .................................................................

[08] nicolorossi @ 02. 04. 08 - 08:04:28 [06] Neo80 @ 07. 03. 08 - 11:00:04
same as RNS Also for me, I need to find a pair in us10 or
................................................................. something around it =)
.................................................................
[09] elperro @ 02. 04. 08 - 02:20:57
Photobucket [07] KWiNZ @ 07. 03. 08 - 10:27:05
................................................................. wildedges please
.................................................................
[10] shifty_dave @ 02. 04. 08 - 00:40:02
Jabbars win. Nice. [08] votske @ 07. 03. 08 - 10:11:42
................................................................. today: wildedges
yesterday: boks
[11] R_N_S @ 02. 04. 08 - 00:18:42 wednesday: TNTs
180s, yes! wednesday night skateboarding session:
................................................................. chocolates
ed: Posted:

arch. 2008 - 09:40:47 14. March. 2008 - 10:50:13

lywarch @ 08. 03. 08 - 21:37:02 [01] JonnyM @ 17. 03. 08 - 00:

!!! these look great here - might ha
........................................................ a pair
...................................................
asel4000 @ 08. 03. 08 - 14:12:48
make em lookin good... Posted: Posted: [02] elperro @ 15. 03. 08 - 16:09
........................................................ Likem...
10. March. 2008 - 11:06:44 13. March. 2008 - 10:06:46 ...................................................
raniff intl @ 08. 03. 08 - 12:05:32
ess Jos. [01] shifty_dave @ 10. 03. 08 - 19:06:05 [01] pbauerAJ @ 13. 03. 08 - 18:45:39 [03] onyx78 @ 15. 03. 08 - 01:4
........................................................
NBs are killer. yes both nice Love Okwahns - but that shiney
................................................................. ................................................................. put off on this pair.
ohnnysmith1500 @ 08. 03. 08 - ...................................................
:19 [02] sinnerman @ 10. 03. 08 - 12:44:36 [02] llywarch @ 13. 03. 08 - 16:40:35
looking shoe. Nice view of these 574s Cool!!! [04] pharoah @ 14. 03. 08 - 22:3
........................................................
................................................................. ................................................................. yeah-yeah!!!!!!
...................................................
obbster2001 @ 08. 03. 08 [03] - 10:47:44
alecs1 @ 10. 03. 08 - 12:33:09 [03] Sneaker52 @ 13. 03. 08 - 12:25:58
nice nice Cabs both nice [05] Black X List @ 14. 03. 08 -
........................................................
................................................................. ................................................................. they always look great on peopl
on the shelf they never convince
aul goode @ 08. 03. 08 - 10:27:59 [04] johnnysmith1500 @ 10. 03. 08 - [04] crookiecook @ 13. 03. 08 - 11:30:43
woulda liked these.. 12:32:03 smashing of course they look great here
........................................................
58 Liking the Cabs, NB not doing much for ................................................................. ...................................................
me.
yrmax @ 08. 03. 08 - 10:22:47 ................................................................. [05] Gonz @ 13. 03. 08 - 10:55:56 [06] Gonz @ 14. 03. 08 - 12:35:
y Nice J,.....Can’t get used to the grey laces Can’t make my mind up on thes
........................................................
[05] pbauerAJ @ 10. 03. 08 - 12:20:20 in those campus though for some reason. ...................................................
574 for me .................................................................
................................................................. [07] Sneaker52 @ 14. 03. 08 - 1
[06] befax. @ 13. 03. 08 - 10:45:05 nice, I like the grey too.
[06] J-Murda @ 10. 03. 08 - 11:52:34 nice ...................................................
Cabs for me.... very nice. .................................................................
................................................................. [08] votske @ 14. 03. 08 - 12:08
[07] votske @ 13. 03. 08 - 10:06:47 @ Ry, the more you wear them,
[07] votske @ 10. 03. 08 - 11:06:45 today: Jordunks the extreme shininess is going a
today: 574s yesterday: Campus samples this is one of those trainers that
yesterday: ninja cabs ................................................................. well worn...
................................................................. ...................................................

[09] En_ieka @ 14. 03. 08 - 11:3

I like ‘m, still doubting.
...................................................

[10] r2b2 @ 14. 03. 08 - 11:27:4

saw these in the swindon nike o
with the greys for 30 notes. even
price i still couldnt justify them a
shiny leather.. look good here th
damn.
...................................................

[11] votske @ 14. 03. 08 - 10:50

can’t stop wearing these!
...................................................
:41:28
ave to cop

...............

9:46 Posted:
Posted:
............... 23. March. 2008 - 19:43:24
15. March. 2008 - 10:00:45
42:47 [01] PROBS @ 23. 03. 08 - 22:11:31
y leather’s a [01] llywarch @ 15. 03. 08 - 21:00:01 close call for me
Hahaha! Where’s that lovely smile of yours .................................................................
............... Jos?!!
................................................................. [02] AirAlarm @ 23. 03. 08 - 21:47:59
35:02 superstars(L)
[02] onyx78 @ 15. 03. 08 - 16:58:21 .................................................................
............... Meth Lab?
................................................................. [03] LY..... @ 23. 03. 08 - 20:32:29
16:05:32 all nice but ss are my fave.
le’s feet but [03] elperro @ 15. 03. 08 - 15:32:21 .................................................................
e me Whats there? Absinte?
................................................................. [04] votske @ 23. 03. 08 - 19:43:24
yesterday: me in 576s, Mitch in Vans
............... [04] ziggy_z3001 @ 15. 03. 08 - 15:05:24 today: SS1s Posted: 59
haha VV.. i actually lol’d .................................................................
:08 ................................................................. 28. March. 2008 - 09:17:31
se.
............... [05] Subliminal* @ 15. 03. 08 - 12:34:50 [01] matt_white88 @ 28. 03. 08 - 20:16:
or he could be working on a few free festival dope wind runners!
12:30:06 tickets? ................................................................
.................................................................
............... [02] elperro @ 28. 03. 08 - 18:05:36
[06] kozsie @ 15. 03. 08 - 12:01:39 monorail @ 28. 03. 08 - 12:47:03
8:48 edges and mocs... nice
, the more QUOTE:
away. i guess whats the funnel for? ^ SAME ^
look better ................................................................

............... Pish, he’s Dutch mind. [03] AirAlarm @ 28. 03. 08 - 14:47:07
................................................................. HEHEH
31:06 dope jos!
[07] KWiNZ @ 15. 03. 08 - 10:34:17 ................................................................
............... tip:
snap a pic later during the day, you’ll look [04] roblobster @ 28. 03. 08 - 14:09:18
46 more awake lol all nice but the vans for me! espc. the
outlet along windies -bonkers!
n at that lovely cabbies ................................................................
as hate the .................................................................
hough.. [05] ghettrocentricity @ 28. 03. 08 - 13:5
[08] Subliminal* @ 15. 03. 08 - 10:17:11 great shape on the windies.
............... whats the funnel for?
................................................................. wish they werent so plasticky though.
0:13 ................................................................
[09] votske @ 15. 03. 08 - 10:00:46
............... half cabs for a nice day in my shop [06] monorail @ 28. 03. 08 - 12:47:03
................................................................. edges and mocs... nice
................................................................

[07] Platoni @ 28. 03. 08 - 11:55:22

same like nfin
................................................................

[08] kangas @ 28. 03. 08 - 10:51:40

Dope windrunners. Your being all quiet o
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Bread Tags
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Jeremy Jansen Eike Dingler Luk Sponselee

Graphic Designer Graphic Designer Director
Arnhem, the Netherlands Cologne, Germany Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Digitized by Google Instead of Walking the Dog Mascot Maidens

±500 items Unknown number of items ±400 items

Collected during my graduation
in 2006.
A long time ago because I was bored
and got a camera.
I don’t exactly know anymore, but
at a given moment an enjoyable
bio-milieu tortilla chip came, with its
associated packing. On the packing
there was a simple traditional woman
stomping the corn. I foundit very
strange to see that a rather modern
Index 2

product would praise such a classic

image. While looking around in the
supermarket I found more and more
packing with a woman as bait. It is
still role confirming in this modern
society.
 www.scannerdot.com www.fiona-rukschcio.com www.votske.web-log.nl

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Scanner Fiona Rukschcio Votske™

Composer and Flaneur Electronique Diplomat Commercial/Creative Entrepreneur
London, UK Vienna, Austria Arnhem, the Netherlands

Photo Booth Portraits Fiona’s Sneakers

100+ items 90 items, hunting for 200 ±150 items

I began collecting photo booth
portraits when I first found them as
a teenager and have continued until
this day.
I started to really photograph around
the turn of 2006/2007.
My sneaker collection was stimulated
by skateboarding. As a skateboarder
I wear many pair of shoes. And as a
skateboarder who is a little fashion-
conscious, I own several colours of
skate shoes to skate with. When
I started to work at a skate shop I
bought skate shoes at a cheaper
price, I couldn’t stop myself. But at a
given moment I found out that more
sneakers exist next to skate shoes.
I started in 2000 with a Dunk and
an Air Max 90 and my interests grew
and so does my collection. In the first
place I limited myself to only collect
and wear Nikes, but for 2 to 3 years
I have bought other brands and no-
ticed that I have to start buying skate
shoes again.
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Emily CM Anderson Ralf Steegs Hyo-jung Kwon

Graphic Designer Web administrator / Salesman Graphic Designer
New York City, United States Arnhem, the Netherlands The Hague, the Netherlands

Crystals & sunglasses Bread tags Maybe, Maybe

23 and 27 items 561 items with date Always too much and never enough

Due the nature of the collection, they Sandwiches are delicious, During my final exam period in 2006.
get lost and broken quite frequent- 01-01-2001 The subject of my final exam was
ly... and new ones are “Maybe, Maybe” and then I started
purchased, sometimes I’m given collecting as many maybes as I could
a pair, sometimes I lend them out… around me. I thought J. D. Salinger’s
the number is always changing. books were perfect for the collection
I would like to collect 100 crystals. not only because of the fact that
he’s my favourite author but also
With the sunglasses I started at 15, the ambiguity and uncertainty of the
when I started thrift shopping. When- characters.
ever I came across an interesting pair
I had to get them, even if I couldn’t
possible wear them, some of them
are prescription… With the crystals,
I started that one year ago, they
are part of a larger project I want to
make someday when I finally collect
enough…
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Primal Urge
url
Primal Urge
www.ok-parking.com
blog number
884
page number
30 – 37
In our current existence full of digitalism, bone-
marrow-sperm and hikikomori we seem to be more
removed from (our) nature than ever.
Still it remains accepted to trace back our behav-
iour and functions to the prehistoric. It is indeed
true that we still produce adrenalin during tension,
have the desire to multiply ourselves and bash in
brains on a massive scale. In a way we should be
glad that our primal urges have not yet disap-
peared due to evolution.
Because this means that it is going to take a long
time before we will intuitively stand in traffic-jams
and facial hair becomes extinct. We are still that
primitive man, to be divided in hunters and gather-
ers. I would gladly categorise myself as a (butch)
hunter. My kind-heartedness and dislike of meat
consumption, however, make me a forager. I am
not the only one who has reached this conclusion.
William e-mailed me to ask if I wanted to contribute
to this magazine. The reason for this was the fact
that several people had mentioned my name in
conversations concerning the subject of ‘collect-
ing’. They had probably been eye witnesses to the
stacks of banana boxes filled with my collections.
It all started with sliding open a drawer of the
desk at my grandmother’s. There I found a nice old
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77
matchbox, which I was allowed to take home with
me. It was probably already the graphic designer
in me who could appreciate and be fascinated by
the small printed paper boxes.
At home I found a box with the logo of a supermar-
ket which no longer existed in the kitchen drawer,
a collection had started. I passed by the tobacco-
nist weekly to ask if he had got new matchboxes,
I pinned up notes at the supermarket and my shoe
boxes filled up.
On my 11th birthday I was given the equivalent of a
collection of curiosities in book-form: the Guinness
Book of World Records (the Netherlands/Belgium
edition). The book describes huge collections of
beer coasters, smurfs and paperclips. Between the
air sickness bags (1226) and Madonna items (4916)
however, the matchbox collection was absent.
That is how it came to be that I can be admired
lying beside my 1031 matchboxes and booklets
in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1992
(the Netherlands/Belgium edition) on page 177
in a colour photograph in the category ‘Human
Accomplishments’. Somehow I also made it to the
1993 edition. That book was unfortunately also
presented to a real collector who outdid me in the
1994 edition with a few more zeroes.
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104 – 105
78
I’ve stopped collecting matchboxes long ago, but
if I encounter the Guinness Book of World Records
from 1992 or 1993 at a thrift shop or flea market it
goes home with me.
Thrift stores are distinctive in the way that you can
buy stuff there which you cannot find anywhere
else (anymore). For that reason I have been a regu-
lar visitor to Emmaus and flea markets for years.
Which has resulted in many special things filling
my banana boxes and bookshelves at a low cost.
My hundreds of LP’s are beautiful to look at and
listen, but MP3s are a bit more practical. Also, my
father has a wise saying: “Bezit van de zaak, eind
van het vermaak.” (possession of the object is the
end of pleasure).
Because what to do with boxes full of holiday
slides of the Tilleman family in Zandvoort and
Tirol? But you never know when something could
be of use, I tend to think. As if a caveman piled
up the gnawed off bones in a corner of his cave in
case he would ever get a dog?
Because of the continuously changing assortment
of the thrift store and the one-off feel of the flea
market, the process of searching, looking, buying
and especially not buying, is a not to be underesti-
mated skill which can be likened to the hunt.
www.dirkpereres.org
354
Every shop specialized in recycled goods has
three boxes of Ministeck (a boat, a horse, and a
dolphin). They always do, except when you are
in search (hunting) for the thing. You must know
when to holdout and when to strike. This is similar
to a hunter who knows which watering place, at
which moment of the day is visited by bucks and if
the animals are plump and old enough.
By my many years of experience as a selective
collector I can perhaps see myself as a skillfull
hunter. The ones around me, however, tend to
think differently. When I move house, the number
of friends that must suddenly go to the bar mitswa
celebration of some cousin is striking. I can’t help
the fact that vinyl is heavy.
So as to quench my thirst for collecting without los-
ing friends (and liveability), I now concern myself
with collecting data. The ‘Dirk Pereres’ project, with
which I graduated, was an archive of thousands of
personal text files, photographs and videos I was
able to download off of PCs by means of peer-
to-peer programmes. It is a great big collection
that can physically fit in one matchbox with ditto
weight, this in contrast to the Tiroler slide series.
However, it’s still difficult to leave behind a set
of original IBM Selectric ‘print balls’ (for just one
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euro), or to walk past a Snoecks-catalogue from
1993. Not because I think that having it is neces-
sary, or that the possession of it makesme happier.

Hunting for one-of-a-kind buys is probably instinc-

tive, but once at home with my trophy, the rush of
adrenalin has fleeted and I open an empty drawer.

(Do you still have a Guinness Book of World Records

from 1992, ISBN 90.215.1718.3 or a Guinness Book
of World Records from 1993, ISBN 90.215.1897 X?
Please e-mail the editorial staff.)

Pierre Derks
www.pierrederks.nl
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Material Girl
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Globes
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Compulsive Hoarding
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Collectors Fair
Elien Vlaskamp

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Train Sleepers
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Mail Art
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Leather Postcards
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Notebooks
Kindra Murphy
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Tins
Kindra Murphy

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Ephemera
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Paterns
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Ontwerp Atelier Chromosoom Nives Widauer

Graphic Design Studio Artist
The Hague, the Netherlands Vienna, Austria / Basel, Switzerland

Material Girl Globes

Unknown number of items ±80 items

Material Girl is a poster which was 1995

brought out by the ‘Schoon of Schijn’
foundation in the poster gallery in
The Hague in 2007.
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Elien Vlaskamp
Graphic Designer
Arnhem, the Netherlands
Train Sleepers
139 items
After a concert we took the first
train home and I was the only one
who couldn’t sleep… It became my
favourite pastime to record unsus-
pecting people between Arnhem and
Amsterdam.
87 — 92
Vitorre Baroni
Counter Culture Explorer
Viareggio, Italy
Mail Art
Unknown number of items
My mail art archive, that would later
take the name of E.O.N. (Ethereal
Open Network) archive, was started
in 1977 and quickly grew from being
just a small collection of files in my
bedroom library to filling always
more boxes, drawers and cabinets.
It is now stored in four rooms of
my house in Viareggio, taking up
entire wall shelves and ordered in
hundreds of envelopes and bags and
dozens of boxes of various shape
and size.
I am interested in trading or selling
this material, a detailed list is avail-
able on request (please send your
swap lists).
www.kindraishere.blogspot.com
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Kindra Murphy
Graphic Designer
Minneapolis, United States
Leather Postcards, Notebooks, Tins…
I have so many bits and pieces I can’t
really count them all. The great thing
about paper is it lies flat. I’ve got a
lot of it.
I was in Kindergarden and I seri-
ously thought I was going to be in the
Guiness Book of World Records for
the largest sticker collection. I also
spent a ton of time at the local stamp
and coin shop with my father sorting
through bins of stamps. Collecting
must be hereditary and for me it’s
not a conscious act. I’ve always
saved printed matter and what I think
are beautiful things. When I begin a
project (or am asked to become part
of one—such as this!), it it gives me
an opportunity to sort through my
drawers–that’s when I realize that I
have a million mini collections.
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Orange Wrappers

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Black Metal Logos

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Fukd JPG
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Pizzeria Flyers
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Pieter Hildering
Graphic Designer / Author
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Orange Wrappers
±450 items

Some years ago I started to collect

the wrapping paper which comes
around oranges, because they are
informal, inconspicuous but o so
splendid.
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106 — 107 108 — 113 114 — 117 121

Daniel van der Velden LUST Martijn Oostra

Graphic Designer / Teacher Graphic Design Studio Graphic Designer / Image Maker
Amsterdam, the Netherlands The Hague, the Netherlands Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Black Metal Logos Fukd JPG Pizzeria Flyers

140 items 500+ items ±1000 items

Since 1995 To be able to analyse media that

isn’t formed by professionals like an
anthropologist. Initially in the middle
of 1994.
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A Single Object is Not Enough
 A Single
url
Object is Not
www.nlxl.com www.affichemuseum.nl
blog number
Enough!
page number
Bob van Dijk is a super supreme nutcase, hilari-
diculous DJ, graphic designer extraordinaire, but
above all a fierce collector. During my internship at
NLXL I got to know Bob as a man who lets himself
get inspired by a bit of everything for his designs
and illustrations. Whether they’re antique keys,
stuffed birds, prostheses or round objects, Bob
works on them with an idiotic amount of energy.
Besides energetically setting up and extending
collections, he also buys complete collections. By
now his attic has been filled with boxes because
the shed is already overflowing.
Bob van Dijk was born in The Hague, Netherlands
in 1967. After he graduated cum-laude at The Royal
Academy of Art in The Hague he started his profes-
sional career at Studio Dumbar. Bob won several
awards, among others the esteemed Dutch Design
Prize for his poster-campaign for The Holland
Dance Festival. In 2001 he founded NLXL (graphic
design studio) together with Oscar Smeulders and
Joost Roozekrans.
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WG: Why did you start collecting?
BD: My father taught at the department for
freehand drawing, engineering, and aeronautical
engineering at what is now known as the Technical
University in Delft. I regularly went along with him
during my school holidays and I could live it up
in the depots. From genuine Spanish uniforms to
whole planes! My father was part of the The Hague
Art scene, he made etchings, he was temporary
President of the The Hague Art Ring, and he was
on the board of the Pulchri Studio, which had
been set up by the painter Mesdag, at the Lange
Voorhout in The Hague. Furthermore he attended
the Royal Academy of the Arts, where there was a
training course for secondary teachers at the time.
I grew up between artists, who were friends of
my parents. They frequented our home, and we
regularly visited theirs. Willem Minderman, who
restored paintings by Mondriaan, was a central
character for meetings. His daughter had an
antiques store, where everyone went to talk about
art on Saturday. The same Willem Minderman,
was a collector of Etnografica (African art), which
also interested my father. There were masks and
figurines everywhere in our house. It was a real
museum. What’s more, my father had a passion
for biology and had a collection of 60,000 pinned
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up beetles, which he himself had caught. He even
discovered a number of new species. In the halls
there were cupboards with drawers full of beetles.
Also cabinets full with shells from the all over the
world. My mother collected Japanese prints and
antique dolls. I came into contact with a variety of
interests very early on. In fact as a result, I myself
started to collect. It is a curiosity towards several
things, and especially to compare it all. It there-
fore is not about the possession. I have never felt
it to be like that anyway.
WG: How long have you been collecting and have
your interests towards objects developed over the
years?
BD: When I look back, I can say that I was lucky.
I grew up in very inspiring surroundings, noth-
ing has ever been imposed on me and we went
on holiday for 8 weeks a year. My father worked
in education. We left for our trip on the 1st day of
the holiday with a fully packed car. And we came
back on the evening before he had to start work
again. On holiday my father set off every day, with
a butterfly net to catch beetles, I would go along.
During one of these holidays, at a small river on
the camp-site, my interest in fossils was awoken.
Every day I crossed the river and I spent the whole
day chopping in the rock face in search of fossils.
I have been collecting those for a very long time
now. Finding it yourself is of course much more
fun than buying it. In short, I have always been
stimulated to expressly do my own thing. That
can be difficult, because it is not always possible.
But I have learned that it is possible. Why would
you occupy yourself with things that do not inter-
est you? What a waste of time.
WG: How does it influence your work? Do elements
from your collections appear in your work?
BD: I have never busied myself with what is ‘hip’
within the profession. Neither do I look at others,
with the idea: I want that too! If something inspires
me, it is a stimulant and it gives me energy to go
to work. Something maniacal comes over me (in a
good way) and I proceed to expand my world, but
in my way.
Because I have seen much, collect much, question
a lot and often make comparisons, I quickly have
metaphors for things, and that is totally the world
I live in. It is inevitable that these things appear in
my work. I like to make still lives with things which
at first glance have nothing to do with each other,
but tell a story when you put them together. For
example, I collect antique keys and they are excel-
lent metaphors for representing houses. I worked
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smell and there were moths
flying around, they had to go. 272
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for Theater Zeebelt in the 90s on the ‘Fly-opera’, in
which scenes in small settings were recorded with
small cameras. When a town had to be portrayed,
I let down a thread with keys and everyone under-
stood that it represented a street even though I
didn’t show the literal ‘houses’.
Two years ago, I saw a collection of 90 stuffed
birds for sale. It was very fascinating the way
all those birds were looking at me. From a small
sparrow, to cranes, herons, turkeys, gulls, eagles
and a stork. Real bizarre! I bought them and put
them all in the studio. Where a collection of pros-
theses of mine had been drawn up as well. Finally,
we have used these birds as extras in posters
which we have made for a DJ in London. This had
a lot of success.
WG: Is a collection ever complete?
BD: No, in fact, never! This does not mean that I
frustratingly try to make it complete. You simply
divide your attention, from the one collection to
the other. My stone collection was left untouched
for many years. At the moment, I am buying and
making an inventory of new stones.
WG: How many objects and/or collections are we
actually talking about here?
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BD: I collect among other things stones, fossils,
ancient keys, prostheses, old tin toys, medical
books, children’s books, atlases, globes, wooden
animal figurines, iron figurines, stone figurines,
posters, old game consoles, old computer games,
everything about the universe so DVDs, books and
old moon charts –I even have De Telegraaf (a Dutch
newspaper) from 1969 with a large photograph
of the first moon landing on the front page– Lone
Ranger-stuff (cowboy puppets from my youth, the
same size as a Barbie-doll, with Indians, horses,
a covered wagon, boat, saloon and a stable), old
coins, wrapping papers for oranges, round objects,
it doesn’t matter what. I’m sure I’m forgetting
a few. With me it starts with buying one thing,
and then it becomes 2, 3, 4, 5… and then it gets
dangerous, because suddenly there are 100 and a
collection is born. Oh yeah, I forgot the Japanese
prints and medical objects.
WG: What do your surroundings (friends, family,
etc.) really think of it all?
BD: That doesn’t interest me at all. Some people
think it is nonsense and love Zen. I also love Zen,
but I love it in my head. Collecting ensures that I
can deepen my interest in things and it keeps me
busy for hours. It makes me happy!
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539
WG: Winning a battle/losing a war (delete what
does not apply)
BD: It is not winning a fight in any case, because it
is not a fight. Positively, I would say that it’s losing
a war, if you want indicate that the collection is
complete and that it stops. No, it doesn’t stop, and
it doesn’t have to stop for me. I’m amusing myself
with it, I get smarter because of it, I never get
bored by it, and there’s too little time for it. It is
great to have interests with which you can broaden
your knowledge.
You can just judge something, when you can
compare things to one another. I find that inter-
esting, because as a result the differences become
smaller, and as a result of which you are forced
and trained to get better at looking at the details
and really seeing them!
WG: Most insignificant collection?
BD: For many years I saved covers from the VPRO-
television-guide. I’ve really kept them for years,
but I cannot, in fact, recollect for the past 4 years
why I’ve been collecting them. In the beginning,
they were so progressive and with regard to design
so beautiful or interesting. But they haven’t been
anything for years. The last couple of months,
I throw the entire guide away. It has become a
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throw-away object and it doesn’t have the value it
used to have.
WG: Smelliest collection?
BD: Those 90 stuffed birds were of course always
a subject of conversation when people came by
the studio (NLXL). They stood on every cabinet and
looked at you. It looked like a zoo, our design stu-
dio. I find that a design studio must have inspiring
surroundings and not some polished, stainless-
steel, minimal-art nonsense. I think that’s hope-
less, those inexpressive spaces with sensible
design furniture. As creative as a bag of onions!
Eventually when those birds started to smell and
there were moths flying around, they had to go. I
just threw them all out without batting an eyelid.
WG: Top 5 ‘best’ collections?
BD: My stones, fossils, shells, prostheses and
medical books!
WG: How do you store your collections?
BD: My attic is full with boxes and I am presently
indexing it, with as a result that I can find and
change collections easier, so that I can enjoy them
in turns. Like a depot. A showroom. I just realised
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that I still have storage somewhere, which is WG: Are your collections purely physical (objects,
also entirely full. I should go and check that out etc.) or has the area also been moved to a digital
too. Be aware, I do not see it as a burden. I look depot in the last years?
forward to it!
BD: Still purely physical
WG: Do you have a shortage of space and would
you throw away/give away or sell collections? WG: We know you as a collector of collections.
What is that insanity to collect so many different
BD: I have sold or thrown away things, yes, such things instead of trying to complete one collection?
as the stuffed birds. And, I always have shortage
of space. I still dream of a house where I can hang BD: Why should you concentrate on one thing,
all my collected posters, but I fear that I then must when there is such a variety of distinctive and
buy the royal palace… ha ha ha ha. different things. I love sushi, but if I would eat it
every day, I would not like it anymore. So variation
WG: Is collecting for you a constant search for in your food, and also in your food for thought!
missing objects or does the collecting rage come
in bouts?
Interview conducted by William van Giessen
BD: It is pure curiosity, enthusiasm, and interest.
It is better to encounter things, than to literally
look for them. I once left the house to go look for
pants, but I came home with a lounge suite. That’s
why I never go searching for something. If I see
something I like or I can use, then I buy it. There’s
nothing worse than wasting time by searching for
something. Eventually, it will find you!
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Air Sickness Bags

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Hole Punch Outs

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Wings
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145

CD-R
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Letter to an Autistic Viking

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url

Away
blog number

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page number

88 – 92 143 – 145
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I was ten years old and I collected little bars of
soap. Not artistic postcards, exclusive CD cases or
bizarre egg cups, but ordinary bars of soap.

During my younger years the whole family went to

a different European capital every autumn break.
I was excited about our yearly trip abroad weeks
before the vacation. The four of us in the car were
on our way to adventure. And an adventure it was:
a foreign language, foreign food and sleeping in a
soft hotel bed.

That’s where they were, at the hotels: the mini

Inge ter Schure
Washed Away

bars of soap. They disappeared in my bag and I

would put them in a huge glass jar when we were
back in the Netherlands.

Over the years memories piled up in the jar.

Vienna, Budapest, Copenhagen, London or Paris:
the family trips and the hotel soap had their own
shape, scent and colour everywhere. Carefully I
picked out the most beautiful ones. I persuaded
my father to bring back at least one item for my
collection every time he went on one of his sparse
business-trips. My collection grew considerably, a
story for every bar. Until there were no more trips.

I got older and ventured out into the world, busy

collecting memories of my own. New friends came
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into my life. Some stayed, others left. The glass
jar with the tiny bars of hotel soap was put away
in a dark corner of both my parental home and
my mind; hoping for new events to no avail. They
stayed in the dark.
There I stood in my old room, holding the glass jar
firmly in my hands. I glanced at it for one last time.
Time to clean house. I turned over the jar, the little
bars of hotel soap disappeared in a large grey
garbage bag. I washed the collection away.

Up until a few weeks ago. My father moved out

of the parental home to go live with his new girl- Inge ter Schure
friend. Old childhood things appeared from dusty
cabinets; notebooks and diaries revealed forgotten
feelings. And inevitably there it was: the big glass
jar. A layer of dust had accumulated on the top
bars of soap and the glass of the jar was oily and
stained. The hotel memories had lost their scent
and stuck together. Small bags of liquid soap were
mouldy. The whole thing formed one large gunk
in which the individual bars of soap were hardly
recognizable.

For minutes I stood with the glass jar in my hands.

For years I worked hard to put together this col-
lection. Carefully I tried to separate the pieces of
soap, in search of the stories. Where was this
one from? And when did I bring it back with me?
A few scents escaped the jar, colours lighted up.
For a moment I was dreaming away, back to Paris,
London, and Vienna. To the strange beds and
foreign words.
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Salt-and-Pepper-Sets
George Sponselee
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Steve Silberberg Emily Darnell
Backpacking for Weightloss Coach Designer and Illustrator
Hull, United States Minneapolis, United States
Air Sickness Bags Hole Punch Outs
2043 items In the thousands. I gave up counting.
I started the collection in January I’ve been a collector for as long
1981 because, well, I guess I needed as I can remember, most likely
attention. Also, I thought I would be because I’ve inherited sentimental
the only one to collect air sickness tendencies. Initially collecting was
bags. an unconscious activity. Now that
I am more aware of it, collecting
has become part of my daily life. It
serves as a way for me to represent
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the passage of time. I consider each
object, not only as a reflection of
myself and the way that I view the
world, but also as a reflection of my
environment.
www.chromosoom.net
138 — 142
Xander Wiersma
Graphic Designer
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Wings
140 pair
Somewhere in 1998, a magazine was
shoved into my hands by a friend
of mine. In that magazine there was
some work of one ‘Peter Beard’,
which was very fascinating to me at
the time. I also started a type of il-
lustrative diary with collage, text and
drawings. After making these pages
a number of weeks, long-legged
mosquitoes flew into my room. They
were caught without pardon, frozen
and the wings were stuck to a page in
my ‘diary’. A year later I encountered
the page in the diary. Resulting I
have started to collect wings, but this
time in a small notebook with the
date I found it on written next to it.
All insects were found dead before
they entered my notebook, with
the exception of some long-legged
mosquitoes.
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143 — 145 146 149 — 153 157

Jaan Evart Christel Ooms George Sponselee

Graphic Designer Photographer Retired teacher
Tallinn, Estonia Breda, the Netherlands Hulst, the Netherlands

CD-R Letter to an autistic viking Salt-and-pepper-sets

I dont have physical objects, just a Unknown number of items ±2000 pair
documentation of others’ collections.
I think I have around 400 images… Since I wanted to post myself instead Photography by:
of writing a letter. Thijs de Lange
I started my collection in 2004 or www.thijsdelange.nl
2003 as a part of my graduation
project in Estonian Academy of Arts.
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Inspir
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www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections www.hollanddoc.nl
www.as-found.net www.flickr.com/photos/linzie/sets/72157602417089145/
www.foodlog.nl www.lpcoverlover.com
www.manystuff.org www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/index.html
www.werkplaatstypografie.org www.dakpannenmuseum.nl
www.koert.com www.scryption.nl
www.idea-mag.com www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200411/tows_
www.listography.com past_20041118_b.jhtml
www.foundmagazine.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding
www.legrandcrew.com www.scarlet.nl/~vitesse/media_2005_2006/verz.html
www.Ffffound.com www.hollanddoc.nl/programmas/20008070/
www.friendlyfloatees.com afleveringen/39366628/
Sources of Inspiration

www.kbr.be/~socboll www.galeries.nl/mnexpo.asp?exponr=23991
www.ubu.com www.ds.arch.tue.nl/General/links/DAGCAD/Barreto3.html
Websites

www.we-make-money-not-art.com www.museumryswyk.nl/hpb2002/k_barreto.html
library.nothingness.org/articles/SI//pub_contents/13 mattus.web-log.nl/vibe_visual_brand_experie/logos/
www.crookedtongues.com index.html
www.sneakerfreaker.com player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6751438
www.sneakerplay.com www.filmsamling.se/instick/index.php
www.miekedriessen.com www.jeongmeeyoon.com/aw_pinkblue.htm
www.banksy.co.uk www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress
www.nobodycanglue.com www.spacecollective.org
referencelibrary.blogspot.com www.ilovetape.nl
www.geotypografika.com www.dearcomputer.nl/gir
www.flickr.com/groups/55183552@N00/pool/page9 www.maproom.org
www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta www.davidrumsey.com
www.ted.com www.maphistory.info
www.wellcomecollection.org www.helmink.com
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prieelvogels www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl
ces of
ration
www.georgeglazer.com
biblio.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner
www.radicalcartography.net
strangemaps.wordpress.com
greatmap.blogspot.com
nolli.uoregon.edu
www.infosthetics.com
moebio.com/santiago
www.number27.org
www.historyshots.com
indexed.blogspot.com
bibliodyssey.blogspot.com
del.icio.us/BibliOdyssey
blog.myfinebooks.com
collecties.meermanno.nl
www.bestiary.ca
www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e
cdm.lib.uiowa.edu
www.illuminated-books.com
zenonannexe.blogspot.com
www.hetoudekinderboek.nl
www.nls.uk/digitallibrary
www.ndl.go.jp/nature
www.kb.nl
record.museum.kyushu-u.ac.jp/kujira
www.panteek.com
www.akantiek.nl/shun.htm
dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko
bibliophilebullpen.blogspot.com
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www.kahaku.go.jp/english
blog.modernmechanix.co
www.fromoldbooks.org
www.sublackwell.co.uk
www.posterpage.ch
www.gigposters.com
www.typemuseum.at
www.ravishingbeasts.com
www.angelasinger.com
streetanatomy.com/blog
www.phisick.com
www.slap-press.com
mooonriver.blogspot.com
www.pingmag.jp
maeb.typepad.com
www.pinktentacle.com
www.clubinternet.org
www.socialfiction.org
archiv.twoday.net
www.neural.it
www.dataisnature.com
www.dan.org
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Paintings/Postcards/Objects/Games
Shumon Basar and Stephan Trüby, London 2008
Parallel Encyclopedia
Batia Suter
Roma Publications, Arnhem 2007
2859 afbeeldingen uit J. Johnston’s Naukeurige
Beschryving van de Natuur
Matthias Merian
I. I. Schipper, Amsterdam 1660
Sources of Inspiration
You Are Here
Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination,
Katherine Harmon, Tributary Books
Princeton Architectural Press, New York, N.Y. 2004
BibliOdyssey
Amazing Archival Images from the Internet
Paul K, Murray & Sorrel
FUEL, London 2007
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R.Tufte

Graphics Press, 2001 Connecticut

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Books

Pepin van Roojen & Kitty Molenaar MC1R Natuurlijk Rood Haar
Pepin Press, Amsterdam 2005 Hanne van der Woude
d’jonge hond, 2008
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges & Margaritta Guerro The Cultures of Collecting
Discus Edition-Avon Books, New York, N.Y. 1970 John Elsner and Roger Cardinal
Reaktion Books Ltd, London 1994
Quart heft für Kultur Tirol
Nr.10/07, Kulturabteilung des Landes Tirol Verzamelen is ook een kunst
Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck-Wien 2007 Thomas Leeflang
Het Spectrum bv, Utrecht 1982
Mister Motley 11
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