Scope and Contents This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. Kota issue utilized the entire THING. It was our first issue in which the issue itself was the whole. Much of Kota's work has been about interpretation and modes of translation. And his contribution to THE THING was not an exception to this. His issue consisted of the standard THING box stamped in Cyrillic (Russian), a letter from the editor translated in to Mandarin, and a simple white cotton baseball cap with Arabic Text embroidered onto the front. Subscribers were only given a very small clue as to what the translation might be (a URL in English, buried in the Mandarin text). The result for many became a search for meaning and an interaction with a text that had symbolic feel but little relevance to their daily lives (unless they spoke the languages). Many subscribers took the letter to their local Chinese restaurant and asked for help, or they wore the hat around for days and weeks until someone told them what it...

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. This issue is designated a back issue on the card accompanying this object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. The glasses case is incised, "Chaldron Optica System." The side arms of the glasses are incribed as follows: "Will you know a chaldron when you see one?" and "With these glasses you will know a true one." A chaldron is described by Lethem in the looses sheet by 12 statements, a few of which are "A chaldron is an impossible object," A chaldron speaks of the possibility of another world," "A chaldron is like an opers pouring from a flea's mouth" and "It is better to have seen and lost a chaldron than never to have seen a chaldron at all." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the pamphlet deals with a bad movie entitiled "Garden State." The text laser etched into the wood block deals with the purchase and cutting of an onion. Kine states in the pamphlet that her object is a cutting board and recommends that the more the board is used, the less the text can be read, and if all goes as planned, "the quieter the ghosts of meals past will become." She also recommends that you first slice an onion on the board that will cause you to cry for as a mental cathartic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a homage to an art gallery director in San Francisco. Written at the bottom of the poster, "This is a toast to William Passarelli and the Vibrant Electical Energy of Good Thoughts and All to Our Extended Families Is." The cups are inscribed at the bottom "I WISH YOU WELL." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. David Korty (born 1971, California) makes work that explores the everyday objects, scenes, and terrain of his living environment. His distinct geometric visual language takes this quotidian subject matter and pushes it towards abstraction, flattening it into a complex depiction of commonplace geometry. Korty's paintings oscillate between these abstractions and their identifiable subjects. What results is a sophisticated dialogue between the nonobjective and the representational, a way of seeing the surrounding world and reinventing it. Korty earned his B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.