the house of stuff • wilkins-o'riley zinn
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A glimpse into the Collectory mind and stuff of Wilkins-O'Riley Zinn, proprietor of Dr. Z's House of Fun, The House of Stuff, and The Amuseum of Un-Natural History, all at Happy Rabbits Farm.TRANSCRIPT
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The House of Stuff
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A presentation fromDr. Z’s House of Fun
Wilkins-O’Riley Zinn
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing!
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
• Pablo Picasso
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our
own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
• Learned hand
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I’m putting things into place, the slow kaleidoscopic falling of this-here-that-
there that follows every move. I cannot NOT live like this and I like the stuff and love handling it even though having no staging area where I can look at all of it is
difficult. I work the puzzle even as I stand in the midst of it. I say to Jim that this is a distillation—it’s been an
installation, dismantled, given away, packed, stored—and now—less is still more than most people have, but it’s less than I want. Ah, to own a museum and live in the
middle of it—The House of Stuff!
• W-OZ journal, November 24, 2006
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Myfirstalligator
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Welcome home
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?• Stephen Wright
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Making Home
My familiars are falling into place and their craft works on me.
They satisfy, delight, comfort, entrance.
They feel like home.
• W-OZ diary, December 20, 2006
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It’s an odd world.• Timothy Spall
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ROBOTS
and totem poles
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And more robots.
And globes.
And mannequins.
And suitcases.
And old radios.
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Colo
red lig
hts a
nd
m
an
neq
uin
s
If giv
en
a c
hoic
e, I’ll b
uy a
man
neq
uin
inste
ad
of s
hoes.
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And hundreds of masks!
A
I like itBecauseit’s ugly.• William S.Burroughs
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A colleague
seesmy RoboJoe
Robot
and says that it
looks just like
hismost favorite
Christmas
present
ever when he
wasabout five years
old.
Stuff evokes
memories. I call
my things
evocateurs.
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There Are Stories In the stuff
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THE LADY ON THE COKE MACHINE
Ask me about how I traded a James Bond game for a
working Coca Cola machine.
Lesson: Don’t be drunk and obnoxious at someone’s party.
You might be sorry!
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Th
e C
hu
rch p
ew
We bought a van because of this. . .
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The more a thing is filed away, the more totally useless it is. A sweet disorder in the desk at least ensures that the whole thing is ploughed through often enough for useful things to come to the surface.• Katherine Whitehorn
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You can’t get a bookcase in this
country for love or money. They’ve
filled them with all their hideous knick-knacks and they’re NOT LETTING GO!
•Lucy Ellmann about England
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I can’t find anything normal here.
• Exchange student/visitor, 2007
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. • Joe Ancis
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There’s no harm in being a little eccentric.• Amanda Peet, Martian Child
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I tell people one of the more fascinating places I’ve ever been in my life is my
daughter’s bathroom.• My mother, July 12, 2006
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Th
e o
ld la
dy
She’s a
lways th
e fi
rst
pictu
re h
ung
.
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I’ve always lovedschool ephemera.
I used to make my brothers and sisterstake weekly spelling tests.
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I know you are, but what
am I?
I like the decorum.
• Tricker or treater about The House
of Stuff, Halloween, 1997
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You can be better dressed when you own a lot of stuff.
• Helen Gurley Brown
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If there is anythingI hate, It is collecting.
• William James
Oh, William. You’d change your mind if you could visit The Amuseum of Un-Natural History,
The Oddservatory, and The Endearium, all to be found at The House of Stuff.
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We Are shaped and fashioned by what we
love.• johan wolfgang von Goethe
You’ve done a nice job decorating the White House.
• Jessica Simpson to the Secretary of the Interior,
Gale Norton, during a tour of the White House
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells
than to be born a millionaire.• Robert Louis Stevenson
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It’s kind of handy to have a family you can call and ask if they have a
milk bottle and a milkman’s hat—and they do!
• Josh Zinn, May 26, 2007
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I think we’re all pretty odd.
• Michael Tippett
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Th-th-
th-that’s
all,
folks,
fromHappy
Rabbits
Farm,
home
of The
House
of Stuff!