Obsolescence Project

Day 299 – Box of 45s

Box. Part II.

Containing:

A bunch of 45s. The 7″ 45 rpm record was introduced in 1949. I suspect most of these are a lot later, although there is a red Decca one which feels uber-vintage.

Mr. OP got these at a garage sale and managed to sell three of them, I think,  which amounted to three times the amount he paid for the whole box.
Further effort / research is warranted to try and pawn off the rest. That’s the thing about these get rich quick ventures. They require work.

Watch for a few of these to appear as individual posts. It’s Day 299(!) I have 66 days to go.

Status: As above, select the visually most entertaining, and feature here. Then convince Mr. OP to sell…

Also look at whose signature that on the note to Gerald.

Kill-ratio: 28: 3/ ~9:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 299 For Storing One Liners.

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Day 298 – Vintage Photograph of Mount Gass

Photograph of Mount Gass

Photograph of Mount Gass.

I looked at this with a magnifying glass and I do see fine web-like cracking. Suddenly I wonder if the sort of sheen the surface has makes it an albumen print?

Aah, who knows.

What I do know is Mount Gass was named Named in 1928 for a surveyor with the Dominion Land Survey, Lawrence Gass. He was killed in action in 1917. This little tidbit was found here. Mount Gass is south of Banff, and north of Fernie, on the border of British Columbia and Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. The Dominion Land Survey, or DLS, “is the world’s largest survey grid laid down in a single integrated system.” (wiki)

Photograph of Mount Gass

Photograph of Mount Gass In Window

Status: Find out what type of photograph this really is. The paper is thin…

Kill-ratio: ~55/3 or 18/1
I kept on re-shooting this, and then misplaced the photograph, and then found it (phew!). There was too little natural light in the late afternoon today, so I shot these in the window.

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 298 For Exploring Uncharted Territory.

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Day 297 – Box

Box

Box. Container.

Of what will be for a post very soon. I can tell you it is most definitely obsolete.

The need to keep up the dailiness of posting outweighed the need for “perfection” – ie: coming up with a fully fledged post. What is that about  anyhow?

Status: To follow soon.

Kill-ratio: Right now 28:1 to be updated

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 297 For Containing Procrastination

 

I’ll catch up on my checking out of regular blogs soon too.

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Day 296 – Set of Vinyl Records

Records

Incomplete set of RCA Victor Classical Records in an Album Case (like a photo album).

Records

As this project draws close to a year, which will be the end of Phase I, I now have to break out the Vinyl. That should take up a few days here and there. And also add a new sub-category to Objects. It’s the small things in life that keep you going.

Most of the LPs are Mr. OP’s but I have a few. This set was purchased at a garage sale probably for the case and the thick feeling of the records.

One of them is the Polonaise Militaire in A Major by Chopin. “During the September 1939 German invasion of Poland at the outset of World War II, Polskie Radio broadcast this piece daily as nationalistic protest, and to rally the Polish people. 1” It is performed by the Boston Pops orchestra and all of the records say “Red Seal Record” on them, which is a classical music label that started in 1902 in the UK. These are Canadian, were made in Montreal. I can’t see any date on them. The album/binder that holds them was in the U.S.A. though.

records

The sleeves are missing a few records. There are six empty slots.

Status: Seeing as these are probably going to generate that old scratchy sound, play and record.
(The story about the turntable – a modern one –  is for another post)

Kill-ratio: 21: 2 / ~10:1
Captioned images don’t count. See the rules, which I break from time to time.
Shot these on Sunday at home, so decided to let go of the neutral background. May re-shoot. Didn’t have a tripod.

Alt-title: Untitled Object No.  296 For Rallying The Troops.

Posted on by Deanne in Objects, Vinyl

Day 295 – Amber Beads

Amber beads

Amber beads from broken necklace. A gift.

Things that need repair are are deemed by many to be clutter, and I tend to agree. Such things linger and provoke sighs, silently berating you for your neglect.  With these beads, I do find them lovely to look at, even as I admit that they “should” be fixed and made into a lovely necklace, and perhaps a bonus bracelet. The original size would be too large for my sensibilities, retiring wallflower that I am.

Amber beads

Amber is by definition fossilized tree resin, so technically as a material it is obsolete:)

Amber beads

Status: Find jeweler who can match the original silk thread that held them together and have them fixed, gosh darn it.

Kill-ratio: 36:3 / 12:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 295 For Resisting  Current Trends.

Posted on by Deanne in Jewellery