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I’ve always enjoyed looking for found art while hoofing it around town. Not only is it a good chance to open up the mind when finding little gems, but the exercise is good and you will be removing litter for your collection. There is something about finding objects out of context that is intriguing, they seem to take on another meaning. The coiled wire in my pic collage always looked like a bow-legged cowboy to me. The red velvet heart and broken key has always amused me. There are also things that border on haunting like the note in peeling off letraset I found a few weeks ago that just said  “come back”.

Some found objects can make for excellent textures like weathered paper with rusted staples, old letterpress postcards with scalloped borders or used duct tape. If your just into the voyeuristic angle you can find volumes of found stuff at Found Magazine.com. They have taken their subculture magazine online and have a find of the day that’s fun.

Taking this a bit further into lost music, here’s a site promoting the book “Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves”. On the site you can listen to old Fuji, TDK or Maxell tape mixes like Julie’s Mix. Side one is Dean Martin and some new age movie vs. side two’s Velocity Girl, Mecca Normal and Pegboy. The Book is a 224-page cassetteophile’s dream with cover illustration by Hope Gangloff.