jeremy tessmer | curator & designer

One of the ongoing conversations I’ve had with technologists (ie: web 2.? developers), curators, and collectors concerns the increasing value of curation (ie: content filtration.)  Google does it.  Bing apparently does it.  So do my friends, Kevin, Ben, and Noah, who are occasionally kind enough to point me towards music that I should know about, but don’t.  I do it, too.  (You do it. We all do it. I just did it and I’m ready to do it again.)

Enter: my map of this weekend’s art fairs in Los Angeles.  Woo, is there a LOT of art that’s going to be shown.  Art Platform, PULSE LA, the Brewery Art Walk, and Beyond Eden.  I am going to try to make it to at least two of these events. (I am also going to go to the Edouard and Luvena Vysekal show at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.) Reviewing the offering, you can see that further curation may be necessary. Put simply, we live in a world of too much stuff.

Enter: Pinterest.  This is a very cool new piece of software that allows you to “pin” things to your virtual “cork board” and share it with an undeserving world. See, for example, my mate’s Pinterest Board.  I see huge possibilities in this idea. You could become a freelance curator of Pez Dispensers or vintage Saabs. You could also forgo buying things in favor of putting them into a virtual space where you can stare at them all starry-eyed.

Finally, a little help in becoming a curator of Eames stuff. Remember friends, good curators have both knowledge and taste. You should either educate yourself to where you have both or find a friend who already has them.