Objects gaining significance: About the Significant Objects Project

This whole project, which I discovered maybe five minutes ago (okay, ten), looks too delicious not to link to. It binds imagination and eBay together in something that is actually a useful thing. Who knew? Go look. I will too. The money collected goes to 826 National, an organization founded by writer Dave Eggers which conducts writing programs.

THE IDEA

A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

via Significant Objects |  About the Significant Objects Project.