you gotta go WRITE and/or link to this comment about that on the wiki page yo! i helped you out this time..

What's up with this post-modern retro flashback shiz-nit? Does anybody remember collecting stickers like a maniac when they were little? My cousin Siobhan had the most enormous collection of stickers. I distinctly remember going sticker shopping with her and my older sister at the stationary store that had rolls and rolls of stickers behind the counter ...I picked out scratch-n-sniff ones and fuzzy ones and a big 50cent one that was rainbow and metallic with a unicorn on it. Am I the only one who had a sticker book as a kid? It was such a huge fad. Anyway...Corie's? blog entry just returned these childhood memories to my consciousness and I find it really interesting how that phenomenon I experienced as a kid has returned in this larger, more mature form. And what is it about humans that makes us desire and collect slogans, symbols, graphics, and logos? Think about it...stickers, t-shirts, bumper stickers, matchboxes, shot glasses, postcards, liquor bottles, camera watch pictures, business cards, greeting cards, etc. etc. ad infinitum. All these things that people either collect, or save for no good reason...it's all connected to this gravitational attraction to a clever slogan or eye-pleasing design. In middle school when everyone was collecting Absolut vodka ads, I would cull the pages of Time magazine for interesting ads, photos, or headlines which I would then add to a collage on my closet door (it eventually spilled out onto the bedroom walls as well) When I left for college, I took down the collage and took most of it with me. I still have some of them, just because I'm so in love with the image or words that I can't bear to throw them away...even though the the colors are fading and the thin magazine paper is starting to disintegrate. What is our love affair with symbolic images? I'm sure there have been doctorial dissertations on this subject, and I'm not the first to take note, but I just find it so fascinating how a human mind works...in all it's individuality...much like every other human mind.

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I do that too! I am a general packrat, though ever since childhood I've been obsessed with saving all things graphical such as stickers, etc. I went through a phase where I just cut out words and collaged them onto everything. I have an entire collaged chair that represents Summer/Fall 2001. Go figure.

What generally drives my interest in these things is a need to preserve particular moments. Stickers (the kind I peeled off of things, not the sticker book kind, to an extent) defined not only a memory, but a place. I could look at it and remember the wall that I peeled it off of, why I took it, what I was thinking. Same goes for collecting words, articles, etc.

Hmpph. Interesting...

I collected fruit stickers for a while, too. :)