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Monday, January 30, 2006
4:42:00 PM EST
Hearing Around This Corner -- Sarah Harmer

Your Monday Shoot: Things You Have Other People Probably Don't


Got something weird around the house that you figure is unique to your personal environment? Perfect. Get the camera:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a snap of something in the house you're pretty sure other people aren't likely to have in their house.
Pets and people are not included (we're pretty sure your pets and kids aren't in most other people's houses). For this photo shoot we're looking at things -- stange objects, curios, odd keepsakes and just generally weird stuff.



I got the idea for this particular photo shoot when Athena came walking into my office with the stuffed werewolf I had gotten her (the one that changes into a lumberjack by turning the plush toy inside out). It reminded me that -- aside from the more usual teddy bears and stuffed animals, she has quite the collection of odd plush toys. As a representative sample, here's Cthulhu, Albert Einstein, a Beezlebear, a rhinovirus and the aforementioned werewolf. Perhaps other people have one or two of these, but it seems unlikely to me that anyone has all of there, much less given them to their kid. Strangely enough, Athena persists in being relatively normal. Who would have guessed.

You're on: Pick some weird thing (or things) in your home environs, get it in a picture, then post that picture on your blog or journal and come back and leave a link. Don't leave me hangin', here -- I can't be the only person with a house full of weird things.


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