Comments on: Obsessive Consumption

By: Hazel Terry

Hazel Terry — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:20:37 +0000

I used to have a friend from Baltimore over on an exchange to Scotland who wrote everything, EVERYTHING that he did each day in a wee book, I found it quite bemusing but also more than a little scarey.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:09:02 +0000

Really like this post. Buying a book about someone else’s consumerism is very intriguing, I will definitely check it out!

By: WowHeyWhat

WowHeyWhat — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:12:57 +0000

She’s in the new ReadyMade, very interesting stuff.

By: agnieszka

agnieszka — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:49:43 +0000

beautiful illustrations

By: kvh

kvh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:27:31 +0000

Yaay, congrats again Kate –

I pride myself slightly in being the sole reason for the only swear in the entire book for my old “Please ****ing Vote” shirts from October 08.

Yay yaay!

By: gangerdesign

gangerdesign — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:34:13 +0000

I saw her credit card drawings at a show in Milwaukee a couple of years back. Her work is memorable. Good to see that she is getting more exposure.

By: Matt Convente

Matt Convente — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:24:49 +0000

I ordered the limited addition book + original drawing about an hour ago. I can’t wait to get the set!

By: kate

kate — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:13:24 +0000

Thanks so much Tina!

Anna – I agree, there is something odd about buying a book about consumption, but there are so many contradictions and emotions involved when consuming (guilt, joy etc). My work has a lot of cyclical patterns, and this book falls right into place amongst them.

Thanks again all for your comments! I appreciate them!

By: anna/quilted giraffe

anna/quilted giraffe — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:54:11 +0000

There’s something rather odd about BUYING a book about consumption. Unless the book is championing consumption, but it doesn’t sound as though it is.

It’s like Real Simple…there’s something contradictory about buying a magazine about living the simple, uncluttered life, because the magazine just turns into clutter.

By: Lana

Lana — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:42:45 +0000

this is really awesome! (I am a shopaholic) The pictures are sooo cute. Seems like an incredibly fun project.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:32:51 +0000

I am currently taking a ‘Consumer Behavior’ class at my university and we were charged with making a 2 week log of all of our purchases in order to analyze our own consumer habits and rationales…

I immediately thought of Ms. Bingaman-Burt and her lovely blog (didn’t know it had made the leap to book form!) and have been illustrating my purchases as well as logging them.

You never know how expensive and trivial that daily Starbucks run seems until you have to draw a venti latte 14 times :)