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Infinite Garage Project
By Tamiko
Back in the day (which I can now officially say, hurray!) during my time in university, I met my lovely American sistah Raina Lee in Philadelphia. We bonded over hoagies and Hello Kitty. Later on, we met again in LA and NYC, and oh yes, I gushed about her fabulous book, Hit Me with Your Best Shot: A Guide To Karaoke Domination here @ Schema.
So it's my pleasure to visit Raina daily at her blog The Infinite Garage Project—a visual tchotke-flavoured project that chronicles the personal history behind her parent's three-car garage in LA which she recently inherited. She's tagging 35 years of history from the garage and it's an amazing, colourful, eclectic ride through generations past—told through fashion, art, photographs, letters, knick-knacks, travel documents, family documents and items from Taiwan, and more.
Raina can do a way better job of describing Infinite Garage Project, so here it goes:
I inherited 35 years worth of my parents' stuff. Most of it is in our 3-car garage, a mythic place where as I child I could find anything -- gadgets, kitchen wares, stamp collections, bags of money, and clothes. Now that my parents are gone, I'm clearing out their mess but discovering more than ever about their lives.The Infinite Garage is an attempt at examining life through objects however mundane, useless or beautiful. It's a history of my family through things. But mainly it's a personal purging project because I can't move out of this house and on with my life until I get rid of the stuff.
I post objects daily, most of which will be for sale online. I'd like to find them a better home. Your home I hope.
Yup, like she says, some of the items will be for sale online here @ Etsy, which I heart.
I love Raina's recent post where she describes her mom and the Pekinese "Ewok"—utterly hilarious and uber-cute. I also quite like the "Mystery Objects." And hello, her mom and dad were quite the hip-happening stylish duo. Not a surprise since Raina inherited their chic oh la la. Hugs.
*LINKS* : Infinite Garage Project | Infinite Garage Project Etsy | Infinite Garage Project Twitter | Infinite Garage Project Facebook | Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Karaoke Domination
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