Boing Boing recently featured a site that collects grocery lists and posts them for the world to see. They have a book coming out soon, ala the name of this post. Grocery lists really epitomize the beauty of the list.
Boing Boing recently featured a site that collects grocery lists and posts them for the world to see. They have a book coming out soon, ala the name of this post. Grocery lists really epitomize the beauty of the list.
Several years back a Dutch writer started collecting (other people’s) grocery lists and then made recipes with the things on the lists. When he had quite a few, he made a book with the grocery-lists and the recipes.
Another thing he did once was taking pictures of cigarette stubs he saw on the ground.
That sounds great. Do you remember his name?
AFAIK his name is Jos Houweling.
I don’t know the name of the book and I cannot find anything about it, unfortunately.
In ’79 he had another book “Een nieuw lente, een nieuw fornuis” which means a new spring, a new furnace (oven). The title comes from a famous Dutch poem which starts with “Een nieuwe lente, een nieuw geluid” which means a new spring, a new sound.
The book is about alternative use of all kinds of stuff. Very very hilarious.
On the over of that book are several of his pictures of cigarette-stubs.
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Cool, thanks.
The Google results for Jos Houweling are a little spotty, but I bet I could sift out useful information. The books sound like just the kind of thing I find interesting.
But the book is in dutch, can you read that?
I’ll try to find more about him and his books.
I can’t read dutch but I can look at artistic pictures of cigarette-stubs on the ground. That’s what I was most interested in. There was a book my old roomate had of a photographer who took pictures of really mundane office workers and military personal working at desks that were pretty facinating. For the life of me I can’t remember his name. I think he was most famous for his photographs of strangely quiet car crashes of Volkswagen bugs.