While the physical form of this is wonderful, the thing I would really want to do is sit down with her and discuss the characteristics and uses of each washer.
Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
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Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#12If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
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#13Can anyone identify the object on the table to her right?
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#14Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France: https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d... It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
A few years back I found a youtube channel about unusual guns.
And it was fascinating because they had all these zany, really distinctive guns like four-barrelled shotguns and revolver-rifles.
Unfortunately they ran out of such weapons pretty quickly and the channel devolved into a lot of "this gun that looks and works just like every other AK-47 is interesting because it was made in Hungary, and most Hungarian AKs received an upgrade but this one didn't" which I personally felt was a bit of a snoozefest.
But if you're interested in seeing a great many very minor variants of mundane items, you might like gun history.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#15Can anyone identify the object on the table to her right?
It is a "third hand", device used when soldering electronics and such.
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#16Can anyone identify the object on the table to her right?
Third hand and magnifying glass. I suppose to get a closer look at them.
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#17Can anyone identify the object on the table to her right?
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#18If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
The intersection will most likely only contain this woman.
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#19If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
Do you mean like to overlapping washers?
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#20If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
this is part of the first friday art walk happening every month in portland. i can imagine that while this display is still unusual in that context, a lot more people are going to be out looking for interesting stuff, and i'd like to think that at least once in a while an interesting conversation will happen. maybe someone collecting screws or nuts or even offers to add to the collection or someone working with these with their own stories to tell.