“The way human beings attribute significance to objects hasn’t changed since we began having objects,” he said, fishing around in his box. “Even if we don’t identify ourselves as collectors, we are collectors of things. And things are collectors of meaning in various ways.”

— At Home With Joshua Glenn of the Significant Objects Project - NYTimes.com (via significobs)

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Asphalt Archeology, a photo series by Mike Mission collecting photos of objects embedded into the asphalt of NYC.