Day 158 - Vintage Lightbulbs
Lisa Congdon – A Collection a Day
Visit Lisa Condon’s Blog - http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com.au/
Answer the following questions on your blog.
- What are her motivations for embarking on the project? Her motivations for her project are: finding things that inspire her and things that she likes.
- Do you see her as a typical collector? Explain why/why not. I see her as a typical collector as I think that she is someone that only collects items that appeal to her.
- Find two different collections on Lisa Congdon’s blog and make up a fictional collector profile of a person who could have been the collector of each collection. i.e. pretend you don’t know that Lisa Congdon owns the items and invent someone who could be the owner. Complete two collector character profiles, one for each collection.
Use the following points to guide you:
- Name? Could be humourous!
- Where they live, occupation, age, other interests/hobbies
- What is their interest in the items in the collection?
- Do they relate to something deeper, a personal love or obsession?
- Has being a collector had any negative or positive impacts on their life?
- Why do they collect?
- Do they have control over it or is a compulsion/problem?
Character Profile 1
Name: Typin Riter 
Age: 67
Gender: Female
Occupation: School teacher
Her interest in the collection started when she was a young girl, her Grandfather had saved up some money and had bought her a typewriter second hand for her 10th birthday. To her, the collection is a deeper message and pays tribute to her late grandfather. Being a collector hasn’t had any negative or positive impacts on her and her family's life. The collector likes to believe that she has control over her collection and that it’s not an obsession.
Character Profile 2
Name: Jimmy Barnes
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Occupation: “professional gambler"
His interest in his collection started when his dad took him to see a world championship poker game. Although, he was never interested in winning poker games like his father, he enjoyed collecting cards. Every year, he buys his dad a pack of cards, the same ones that his dad bought him when he took him to the Championship game. Being a collector has had a positive effect on his life. When his friends want to have a poker night, they go to Jimmy’s house because Jimmy always has a pack of cards lying around. The reason why he collects these cards is to remember to good time that he had with his dad. Jimmy does admit that he does have a compulsion over collecting these cards.
