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April 08, 2005
Blackbird's Meme: The Bookshelf
This week the lovely Blackbird let me choose the theme for her Friday photo meme. I chose her bookcase. The photo above is one of the bookcases in my kitchen, slightly faded spines from the sun, well worn and food splattered cookbooks all with loads of notes in the margins and dates and names next to anything I have cooked and who I made it for. Some of these have been passed down from my grandmother and great-grandmother full of recipe clippings and recipes scribbled on envelopes.
There are quite a few...so for the brave..here you go.
A larger view of Kitchen bookshelf One
Kitchen bookshelf Two. The magazine holders are full of Gourmet, Cook's Illustrated, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, Martha, BBC Good Food, Cuisine, Chili pepper, Saveur
The pile on the table
Bedroom Bookcase One
Bedroom Bookcase Two
Bedroom Bookcase Three
Bedroom Bookshelf One
Bedroom Bookshelf Two
Bedroom Bookshelf Three
The pile next to my desk
Whew. I got some dusting to do.
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Why are these weekly photo essays called "memes"?
I have always understood a meme to be a cultural idea, a sociological element or building block. You and Blackbird and others seem to be using it as a term for an, admittedly, replicating bit of self-revelation.
I'm not saying you're wrong; I'm hoping for clarification.
Posted by: carpundit | Apr 8, 2005 10:51:03 AM
I wish I had an answer for you. I never really had a fully formed definition for a meme..I just sort of followed the bouncing ball as you will. As a newbie to the blog vernacular over a year ago I just assumed anything that was posed as a 'project' (written, photo, etc) that was meant to be passed around was considered a meme. Perhaps we need to seek the defination somewhere. Off to wiki it now.
Posted by: jo | Apr 8, 2005 10:59:10 AM
I just call it 'show and tell'. As soon as I download my camera, I would like to play, too. If I may?
Posted by: Angie | Apr 8, 2005 11:03:46 AM
Of course! Jsut tell Blackbird you did it so others can see it too.
Posted by: jo | Apr 8, 2005 11:12:32 AM
we should call it show and tell. now we will.
Jo - you win the prize, a feast for the eyes!We have about 4 shelves worth of cookbooks and I curse myself for never having made notes in them. I especially liked the envlope marked illegal for personal use - and the cigar box on one of those shelves in some room --I have the same one.
Bravo -excellent show and tell.
Posted by: blackbird | Apr 8, 2005 12:59:01 PM
we should call it show and tell. now we will.
Jo - you win the prize, a feast for the eyes!We have about 4 shelves worth of cookbooks and I curse myself for never having made notes in them. I especially liked the envlope marked illegal for personal use - and the cigar box on one of those shelves in some room --I have the same one.
Bravo -excellent show and tell.
Posted by: blackbird | Apr 8, 2005 1:00:13 PM
Too bad this came up while we're in the middle of massive reorganization and most book cases are unreachable (or at least un-photograph-able)
Posted by: Bev | Apr 10, 2005 9:27:51 AM
Ah - someone to rival my collection of cookery books!
Posted by: Blue Witch | Apr 10, 2005 3:22:24 PM
Freud on the bedroom shelf?
I'd definitely move that one to the living room... :-)
Posted by: Madame Finistere | Apr 12, 2005 10:37:00 AM
I wish I had space for that many books in my kitchen... where do you put the food? I have a couple of big boxes full of cookbooks I forget that I have... until it's time to move the boxes.
Posted by: Grommie | Apr 16, 2005 10:42:59 AM
