COLLECT11

zingHOUSE Dozen – 17.4.2010

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Eleven Lolly Papers Used In A Breakfast Talk In 1998

2009-09-07T07:36:00.004+10:00

The Theme: "Profit" in Design

11 STEPS AT WILSTON

2009-08-12T14:06:00.003+10:00

EVERY STEP A MEDITATION

11 POURERS

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A TEMPORARY COLLECTION

2009-01-08T16:15:00.001+11:00

Sent Express Post: Fruit Weight 611 gms

STREET GLEANER'S GIFT 5

2008-12-30T15:29:00.006+11:00

Left at the gate and somewhat disappointingly there are 9 NOT 11

but this gift takes COLLECTOR_Pr to almost the
halfway point toward their ZING11

11 BANGLES

2008-12-24T17:17:00.002+11:00

11 BITS OF OTHERNESS

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STREET GLEANER'S GIFT 4

2008-12-22T12:27:00.006+11:00

OK so there is a bit of serendipity going on here but the two collectors are at present blissfully unaware of it

FOOTnote: Well there is news to do with this gleaning. Like a Santa’s-little-helper COLLECTOR_Bff left COLLECTORS_Pr a GLEANEDgift and left it on their gate post just like GLEANERmick – they now know his name from his recycled Xmas card – and it now seems that he has a helper just like Santa has. COLLECTORS_Pr are wondering if this is going to be a growing idea – Gleaning discarded stuff (Krap?) and surreptitiously leaving it as a gift for unsuspecting COLLECTORS. It is an idea with merit – it might even help make the world a better place!?

Cowrie Shells ... 8 looking for 3

2008-12-20T16:59:00.002+11:00

A SYDNEY 11

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Can, or will, they stay at 11?
NEWS:

As of Dec 21 2008 there are now 14 which exceeds the limit by 3
As of Jan 5 2009 there are now 22 which is 11 by 2

STREET GLEANER'S GIFTS

2008-12-19T21:06:00.004+11:00

11 MISSED

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To see them click on the barcode

MY FIRST 11

2008-12-10T10:19:00.010+11:00

SELECTION PROCESS VERSION #1: 11 Considerations

Who will you put in?
Who will you leave out?
How will you decide?
Who will you offend?
Who will swoon at your feet?
On what criteria will you select them?
Will anyone come round to your place and throw rocks through your windows?
Can you arrange police protection?
Will they all be Australian?
Will there be any men?
Can you stop at 11?

FOOTNOTE: George Brecht left us December 5, 2008

STREET GLEANER'S GIFTS

2008-12-07T18:03:00.006+11:00

BOGROLL: Condition fair LEMONS: Taste great

There is a story here and it goes something like this. COLLECTORS_Pr live in a suburb where there is this guy who walks the streets gleaning/recycling abandoned ‘stuff’ from rubbish skips, street verges, feral plants and so on. For a long time the rumour persisted that he was homeless but not so! Likewise C_Pr’s neighbours, and the Neighbourhood Watch, thought that he might be a little light fingered but not a bit of it!

It took a little while for them to realise that those mysterious things that appeared on their doorstep or just inside the gate were actually left there by ‘The Gleaner’ as a gift. Sometimes these gifts are accompanied with a note if he happens to have a pen and some paper about his person. C_Pr have agreed to document the last 2 of their gifts and the next 9.

CROCINFLATABLE: Condition uninflatable but OK

The note said "this might make some child happy"

And hey, this guy is a very special kind of collector!

11 DEAD NATIVES WITH THEIR GUARDIAN

2008-12-07T14:48:00.002+11:00

A STOLEN 11

2008-12-06T23:17:00.006+11:00

SCORE IN 11 STEPS

Go to a blog at random
Steal an 11
Work on it
Mark it STOLEN
Make sure that there are 11 bits there
Show the BLOG address
Tell everyone where you got it
Tell them how get there online – Click Here
Tell them that you did all this in their comments
Make a cup of coffee
Sit and wait to see what happens – or if anything happens

WEIRDstuff

2008-12-05T23:02:00.005+11:00

Anymore collections like this one out there?

It would be good if we could find 11 of you!

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TASMANIAN ABORIGINAL NECKLACES

2008-12-05T22:31:00.002+11:00

We have a collector who is looking for 11 other collectors of Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklaces. And he is looking at upgrading his collection as well.

If you are able to help please eMail oceanview@tassie.net.au

Watch this space.

THE WUNDERKAMMER SYNDROME

2008-12-05T21:08:00.000+11:00

There is growing evidence that the first person to collect by 11s was a chap named Olaus Wormius but we are wondering about that. We are doing some research on this chap.

Can you help?

NEW ART COLLECTION STARTS

2008-12-05T14:51:00.000+11:00

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINDING AND KEEPING 1
• Join dating website
• Fill in search criteria
• Copy or download results
• Print
• Stick onto match box
• Fill box with requisite number of spent matches

Watch this collection grow to 11

The COLLECT11 Challenge:

Follow the score above
eMail your outcome to 11@collect11.com
Use "FINDING AND KEEPING" in the subject area

The COLLECTION 11 Network

2007-03-10T11:05:00.000+11:00

The BLOG facilitated network linked to this site is growing and there is room for others to join the COLLECT11 network. For more information eMail 11@collect11.com

Keep an eye out for 11somethings and join the network in the hunt for them.

INVITATION TO JOIN

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If you collect things by 11, or you are interested in doing so, please email us at info@collect11.com– and a photograph would be good too.

A COLLECTION11 might be made up of various individual collections of related objects that:

• constitute either a COLLECTION11 individually – 11 objects that are related in some particular way; or
• collections of less than 11 things that are looking towards being a complete COLLECTION11 and thus making a particular point.

The aim is for the various collections linked to COLLECTION11 to be networked and held wherever it is those collectors who share the COLLECTION11 idea may live. The important thing is that these collections are linked in order that cultural production, ideas, particular kinds of objects, etc. might be better understood and appreciated more inclusively.

WHY 11

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Why eleven?
The number 11 is actually a coded symbol, which means "one ten plus one unit." Since ten plus one is eleven, the symbol 11 represents the number eleven. All numbers are inherently loaded with meaning and symbolisms, and as much as any, eleven has gathered it’s full quota over time. The number Eleven is thought to possess the qualities of intuition, patience, honesty, sensitivity, and spirituality – and is idealistic. And somewhat extraordinarily, eleven is the fourth number that stays the same when written upside down – with the first three being 0, 1 and 8.

In systems such as Astrology and basic Numerology, eleven is considered to be a Master Number. Eleven is also thought of as representing sin, transgression and peril. If ten is the perfect number, eleven exceeds it. For example, in the scale of conductivity copper is considered ‘the perfect conductor’ and has been given the value of ten but silver exceeds copper's conductivity – and all other metals – and thus it has been given the value of eleven.

It is interesting to note that eleven when broken down (1+1=2) comprises the Two of duality. The number eleven is a master vibration and as such should not be reduced to a single number. People with this number are thought to be both idealistic and visionary – and attracted to the unknown. Typically they are thought to be unusual, interesting and magnetic personalities.

Eleven is thought to bring the gift of spiritual inheritance. Eleven is thought of as the number of “the light within all” strengthened by the love of peace, gentleness, sensitivity and insight. Eleven‘s greatest facility is imagined to be the awareness of universal relationships. Eleven is thus related to the energy of the Oppositions and the Balancing needed in order to achieve synthesis. Eleven is The Peacemaker.

An interesting outcome of Einstein's theory of relativity was the discovery of dimensions of time and space that exist separately and distinct from the four dimensions we experience. In fact, these dimensions may even be in our midst but not visible to us. More recently mathematicians have shown that up to eleven dimensions may exist in the universe. Many physicists believe that there are places in the universe where time ceases to flow. One of these places is in a black hole. Now it is interesting that the Bible tells us that God dwells in a place where time does not flow. For centuries, scientists mocked this concept but it is one that is now considered a scientific fact – and somewhat curiously the sun spot cycle repeats about every eleven years.

The eleventh of the eleventh, the eleventh day of the eleventh month – at eleven past eleven – is the time that marks the beginning of the ‘Silly Season’ – or Karneval – and it ends on Shrove Tuesday when all merrymaking and foolishness must come to a sudden halt and yield to the observation of Lent. Some say that it is an open question as to whether or not the WW1 Armistice was a 'time' imposed upon the capitulating power or one that they themselves insisted upon – or something of pure coincidence.

'Silly Weeks' have eleven days! Akin to the ‘Silly Season’, a 'Silly Week' is a local festival where the suspension of normality is celebrated; where various social transgressions are tolerated; and typically it is 'a week' that is timed around an auspicious day for a particular community – a famous local son's birthday, the anniversary of something or other, etc. worldSILLYweek is celebrated Mid-Year. In the Southern Hemisphere it is linked to the celebration of the Winter Solstice and it the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice. worldSILLYweek starts at 11.11am on the Friday before the Solstice and finishes at 11. 11am on the Monday following the Solstice – when all silliness must cease. Local 'Silly Weeks' work in much the same way.

In England the number eleven sometimes appears in the decoration of Easter cakes. The eleven almond paste decorations on such cakes represent the twelve apostles, but excluding the treacherous Judas Iscariot.

The space shuttle went up on its eleventh mission, weighing eleven tons and fixed an errant satellite on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The first lunar landing was made by Apollo11 and a rocket must travel at over 11km per second to escape the Earth's gravity.

Elevenses is a mid-morning refreshment such as tea and biscuits taken around 11am – and it is the agreed time that sun passes over the yard arm and thus an appropriate time to begin imbibing in alcohol for the day. A rugby ball is eleven inches long. Soccer, cricket, American football and field hockey are all played with teams of eleven players on the field.

Eleven of the twelve apostles died martyrs' deaths, according to reasonably reliable tradition and there are 'The Parables of Jesus' that Jesus told on his way to his death in Jerusalem, of which there are eleven, as recounted in Luke's Gospel.

There are actually eleven statements in the Bible texts of the traditional Ten Commandments. Roman Catholics combine the first two statements into one and the Protestants combine the last two in order to arrive at the number ten. How to number the Ten Commandments was a major issue during the Protestant Reformation. There are three lists of the Ten Commandments or Decalogue (Greek for "Ten Words") in the Old Testament. Two of the lists are very close in meaning and make up the traditional Ten Commandants, however the third list is quite different and consists mainly of religious/ritual laws. Interestingly only the third list is actually called "The Ten Commandments" by the Old Testament itself.

So if one is looking for an idea to play with, eleven offers a multitude of loaded possibilities.

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