I was re-reading Richard Koci Hernandez’s Multimedia Journal this week, a book I go back to every few months and steal more ideas out of. He mentions picking up found items and putting them in his journal. Since I’m not sure I want to be collecting more things I’m thinking of just photographing things as they are found, a little side project of some sort.
Of course, my students leave enough stuff behind I could shoot this whole thing in my lab, but that seems a little cheap.
So, from one in an occasional series …
Just wondering if you had seen this blog yet: http://pocketsizedstories.tumblr.com/
The idea is similar to what you propose to do here.