Name: Natália Leal. Age: 15. Location: Brasilia, Brazil. Occupation: Student. List:• My vinyl records • Glasses • My favorite shirt • My red All Star’s • My favorite high heels • My Green Day dvd • My McFLY dvd • My Beatles dvd • My box of letters (the All Star box) • My old Konica C35 camera • The letter that i received from my best friends on my 15th birthday • My swiss army knife • My favorite bag
Name: Ty Mooney. Age: 26. Location: Orange County, California. Occupation: Designer / Student. List:• Journals from the ages of 21-26, chronicling my life in New York • Key necklace • Grandfather’s WWII dog tag • Fortunes collected from the Chinese place in front of my old apartment • Grandfather’s Bucherer watch • Woven bracelet found on 23rd Street • Picture of me and my sister on my first day of kindergarten • Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums,” favorite book of all time • Paintbrush from a trip to China
Name: Jason Broaddus. Age: 30. Location: Chicago, IL. Occupation: Photographer, Social Worker. List:• My Grandfather’s best spatula ever • Android phone • 1TB external hard drive filled with years of photos, documents and research • iPod- can’t take public transit without it • Bose headphones • Passport • Painting from our friend, Tim Rees’, 1st gallery opening, where I took my (now) fiance on our 2nd date- the painting holds a bit of an inside joke • My glasses- I’d be blind without them • Lens-cloth for my glasses • Grandpa’s handkerchief- there’s nothing like a good one • Camera, f2.8 24-70mm and f2.8 70-200mm lenses • My family history book (mother’s side) • My favorite watch • Grandfather’s wedding ring • My lucky wool hat • Wallet • Paisley sheet given to me by my fiance to protect my fair skin from sunburn on last year’s hiking trip
Name: Samantha Tobia. Age: 20. Location: Stow, Massachusetts or Poughkeepsie, New York. Occupation: Social work and polisci student. List:• Red winter jacket • Birkenstock sandals • Espadrilles from Buenos Aires- perfect for swing dancing in • Box of childhood photos • Wallet • Passport • External hard drive with everything on my computer • Hand-knit hat from rural North West Argentina • A charango from Villazon, Bolivia (a musical instrument I have yet to master) • And a ‘Feed’ bag, a high school graduation present from my sister, to hold it all
Name: Brenda Bell. Age: 60. Location: Pinetop, Arizona White Mountains (wild fire country May/June). Occupation: Homemaker. List:• My dog, Baby Val and treats for him • My husband Larry and treats for him • Peanut butter and crackers, peanuts, candy and gum • A spork (spoon/fork) • Hand warmers • Wool hat • Lots of money (small dimensions) and change • Emergency first aid kit and zip lock bags • Matches
Name: Martha Wasacz. Location: San Francisco, USA. Occupation: Investor/Collector. List:• Painting of a boxer, circa 1935 • 2 glass men. A gift I bought for my father and reclaimed after his death • Set of Tombow pencils in a roll case • Vintage mug shots and ID photos. Source material for the drawings I am working on • My sketch books containing completed portraits • My boots • iPad2 with headphones • iPhone.
Name: Sandra Belanger. Age: 52. Location: Briones, California. Occupation: Anthropologist, Spirit Medium. List:• African Gray Parrot and best friend, Horus • Toshiba Laptop • Hard drive with 10 years of EVP research • Tektite from Gobi desert.
My house burned to the ground in 1977, lost everything. I learned that material possessions are unimportant. However, in a pinch I would take the hard drive and Horus and leave everything else. Am about to get a safe deposit box to keep an extra hard drive in so I would just take Horus and come back and dig the tektite out of the ashes. Word to all the folks with big piles of stuff: You have way less time than you think.
Name: Brett Rogowski. Age: 38. Location: Pennsylvania, United States. Occupation: Programmer, Photographer, Runner. List:• Trusty knife • Willow Tree Dad with baby (we had such a hard time conceiving our first child - this gift moved me) • Medals from many, many, many marathons • Wallet • My favorite Mizuno Racing shoes • Change of clothes for my two girls / pacifier from the hospital. Only one that works • Paper mache cat that my wife and I both had when we met • My guitar (the only item that has survived more than 15 years with me) • Wine from 2008 the day my first daughter was born (Big Sur Marathon) • Gimli my trusty pug
• Gimli’s treats • Illegal fireworks • Box of misc flowers given to me from my wife over 11 years ago • Red Pepper • Glasses • My favorite pen • Memory cards • iPhone and iPad • 50mm and 125mm leneses • Canon 40D (not shown) • Dell 2600 - my life is almost completely digital now • Painting from 2005 of a moth in monochromatic
Name: Laura Pritchett. Age: 24. Location: Southern Delaware. Occupation: Artist. List:• The unglamorous but practical galoshes that I wear most often • A painting I am (almost) satisfied with
• An irreplaceable blouse which has no tag and I have no idea who made it, but love • The wooden clothes hanger from my grandfather’s closet • The perfectly weathered belt I am rarely without • Candid shot of grandfather and his car • The last remnant of family plaid my grandmother brought back from Ireland • Keys from my childhood scavenging • 1957 edition of the Fanny Farmer Cookbook with my grandmother’s and mother’s recipe alterations handwritten in the margins • The bit I trained two horses with • Klein bag with my well broken in sable brushes • The hatchet my great grandfather used to build his house • The Ball jar that I keep all of my flash drives in • Family Bible • Moleskine journal I kept while traveling in Uganda • First fabric sample produced by Tukula.org with my design for Ugandan tailors • iPhone
Name: Marie W Matta. Age: 25. Location: Detroit Michigan. Occupation: architect, in training. List:• selected sketchbooks from architecture school + WD hard drive containing every drawing I’ve ever made • B+L red cat-eyes • ever-present turquoise rings • assorted personal ephemera, mostly photographic history • minolta SLR, formerly my mother’s • gifted leather klein tools toolbag • dogeared selection of favorite books • trusted phone and well-worn wallet • italian knit fisherman’s sweater from salvation army • two most loved pairs of shoes: beat up brogues + all-star hi tops • architectural model from my senior thesis, made of paper and gold leaf • feline companion
Name: James Oliver Lamont Fox. Age: 40. Location: Somerville, MA. Occupation: IT, and library school student. List:• Growing collection of old-timey Vermont pennants • Ede & Ravenscroft brogues. Bought them for our wedding • Levi’s Troy lined jacket. Thrifted for $2.50 a long time ago • Box of cufflinks incl. grandpa’s mother of pearl jobs and JOLF monogrammed silver ones (39 y/o present from godfather) • My kilt, Lamont. Only MTM thing I own • External hard drive of photos
Name: Foster Huntington. Location: New York City. Occupation: Fashion. List:• My Grandfather’s Explorer Scout Shirt • Naked and Famous Jeans • Zeiss 35mm f/2 • Nike SFB boots • Ralph Lauren Alligator Belt • Leatherman Wave Black • One basalt rock from the Columbia River Gorge • One shell from Nicaragua • Three shells and one stone from the Maine coast • 45 RPM Orange Bandanna • Vintage Woolrich Horse skin hunting gloves • LaCie Rugged External Hrd Drive (all of my photos and image research) • Rolex Submariner Date with Zulu Ballistic Nylon Band • Oakley Razor Blades • Ernest Thompson Seaton, "Two Little Savages" (well worth a read) • iPhone 4 • Not Pictures • Canon 5D Mark II • Sigma 50mm f/1.4
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