My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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It's not a collection - it's an archive...I have pretty much every issue of Vogue back to 1978, World of Interiors back to 1997, the first issues of Wallpaper and many, many more. It comes from a hippy childhood deprived of any form of popular culture - no tv, newspapers, sweets, anything. Now I get a visceral thrill from opening a glossy magazine, and keep them in neat piles and shelves all around the house.
For years this was just a millstone when moving house and an annoyance to various boyfriends. Til I started working as a picture researcher - now I get paid really quite a lot of money to sit there with a cup of tea and trawl through my personal collection looking for just the right image. *smugs*
It's the perfect excuse to buy even more, and I'll probably never throw away a magazine again. One day I'll be trapped by a major landslip from the tottering piles in my living room and die of thirst, unable to reach the kettle.
(, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 22:51, Reply)
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