Robert Holden is asking people a simple question: what would you take with you if your house was burning down? The limitations create "a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental." Pictured above is the selection by photographer Porter Hovey. Why the shuttlecock? Hovey explains that's is actually a Christmas ornament:
A nice reminder of where I’m from — people never realize how cosmopolitan Kansas City really is. From an aerial view, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art looks like a gigantic badminton court with gigantic shuttlecocks scattered about on the lawn. The Nelson also has one of the best collections photography there is in the world. It always inspires me.
What would you take with you?
http://the-burning-house.com/ via Nerdcore
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My kids.
My computers.
My cellphone.
If I had pets (currently looking), they would come after the kids and before the computers.
Everything else is replaceable. I know, I know, the computers and cellphone are replaceable, but the information I have stored isn't.
I had nothing before, and I'll have nothing after. It will be as if I was reborn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu80Ml9rGhI
My main concern are my pets-especially the caged ones. I'll be breaking windows and tossing guinea pigs like grenades. And I'd take my hubby of course :)
In actuality? Assuming my wife is out of the house I'm getting my dog. No way am I letting Scruffy burn.
Sidenote: I am not German myself.