Seen in Ranjit’s Flickr stream: “Every Saturday, if I can, I go to my local greenmarket (at Grand Army Plaza), buy some goodies, take them home, and scan them. I’ve been doing it since 2000 or so, though this set only contains more recent ones.”
Hey! I will be presenting a portion of my immense collection of found grocery lists at an underground art event in Chicago, and giving a talk about the lists, collecting and my books. The event is sponsored by He Said/She Said, an exhibition and event series held in the home of Pamela Fraser and Randall [...]
Enough people have sent this my way that I have to link it up: “Put your skills to better use.” Though I must confess that I think they put their skills to great use — and I would love to find a list like this one day.
So there used to be, like, no fun or interesting books about grocery stores and grocery store… stuff. Then Julian Montague released his amazing and comprehensive “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” in 2006. A marvelous achievement! Have you seen it? And in 2007 I submitted my own [...]
…one awesome project by Robert J. Bolesta: An “alphabet made of raw hamburger. Each character hand-shaped, packaged, and photographed individually.” (Thanks Douglas Wilson!)
Check out this amazingly mundane yet eerily beautiful photograph of shopping carts. Captured by Kate Bingaman-Burt of Obsessive Consumption fame, archival prints are available at 20×200.
“For an entire year, New Hampshire eco-artist Tim Gaudreau photographed everything he threw away. He recycles and considers himself environmentally responsible. He doesn’t buy much. So what did he learn as a result of photographing his average, daily consumption? The photos (over 5,000 of them!) showed him that most of it was food packaging. He [...]
The Gotta Be NC shopping cart will be making an appearance Saturday at the reopened Capital City Grocery store at Seaboard Station in Raleigh. The cart contains a 396 Chevrolet engine and is part of the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s “Got to Be NC” campaign that encourages people to buy local produce.
“Dumped supermarket trolleys litter our rivers and canals. Now one artist is rescuing them… to create these incredible wire sculptures that celebrate our water wildlife…”
GLC superstar contributor Nancy Bea Miller is having a food-themed art opening this weekend. If you’re in the Philly area, check it out! “My new body of work does not have an official name, but I am thinking of it as ‘The Cake Frenzy’. Come to the show and you will see why. I have [...]
Flying Originally uploaded by carlosluis. This Flickr set is awesome: “I always have my camera with me and the supermarket has proven a fun place to photograph.” (Thanks swissmiss!)
dianne Originally uploaded by Paul Gosney. Dianne has been a cashier in the ‘Victoria Mart’ Kings Cross, Sydney Australia for 18 years. (Photo by Paul Gosney)
Hanging the show, 4 Originally uploaded by keaggy.com. This grocery lists collection is part of my new exhibit called Junk Science: Found objects, trash photography, strange collections and accidental art. It’s based on my many years of web projects at keaggy.com and here at grocerylists.org. You’ll get to see more than 700 of these lists [...]
Several hundred of the lists in this collection will be on display in my found objects/photography exhibit in St. Louis, Missouri. The gallery show is at COCA, the Center of Creative Arts, and it’s based on my many years of web projects at keaggy.com and grocerylists.org. More info: keaggy.com/junkscience. The opening is Friday, April 14, [...]
Plastic Shopping Girl Originally uploaded by soupermanultra. From soupermanultra’s Flickr pool: “I was at this Asian supermarket in Virginia (I think) with my friends and spotted this girl who was having a great time pulling on the roll of plastic bag like she was working. It was hilarious.”
“Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world. To the average person, the stray shopping cart is most often thought of as a signifier of urban blight or as an indicator of a consumer society gone too far. [...]
1976 Slide: IGA Supermarket Originally uploaded by Neato Coolville. “Found this small group of Supermarket slides dated 1976.”
An interview with “Tucker Shaw, food lover, author, Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth: Do you ever walk through the streets of New York and marvel at the seemingly endless rows of restaurants, wondering how many years you’d have to live here to eat at all of them? Well, Tucker [...]
“The Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising had its grand opening on Friday, April 3, 1987 in Millersville, Tennessee. Many hours were spent prior to the opening of the Museum in putting together the world’s largest collection of soda and beer cans along with an abundance of other memorabilia and advertising.” (Thanks Coudal!)
“Laura Kwerel, a radio producer who works in a suburban Washington coffee shop, fell hard for FOUND when she read the third issue of the magazine — a hodgepodge of love-themed finds. The accumulated weight of the voices made her cry. ‘I was overwhelmed … ,’ Ms. Kwerel e-mailed Rothbart last year. ‘I realize now [...]
This is the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists. Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do stupid interesting things. So far 2,000 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff -- we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free. Subscribe via RSS ».
List #2201: If I didn't know any better I'd think this list was made by one of my kids. Specifically, the girl. See more great lists in our collection of Top 10 lists.
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