Accidental Mysteries

Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster, a writer, designer and longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography. “I enjoy the search for incredible, obscure objects that challenge, delight and amuse my eye. More so, I enjoy sharing these discoveries with the diverse and informed readers of Design Observer.”

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Comments [6]

The girl in thorns looks like Natalie Portman.

Kári Emil Helgason
12.26.10
10:04

I love looking at these pages. I become envious of your collection. I look around my own lair and revel in the beauty and value of what I have found. many thanks.

Sandy Olson
12.26.10
10:45

You R amazing Monsieur Foster. Happy New Decade. Keep surprising us. Francois

Francois ROBERT
12.27.10
10:33

Love this collection, John. Would love to see that Ornithopter fly! Or, at the very least, attempt to...

Karin Soukup
12.28.10
10:33

That fly costume is so literal that it's radical! These days we've gotten so used to what a humanoid-insect "should" look like, with animated films and cheap halloween costumes, that the obvious approach would be to pull insect features into human proportion––always making things adapt to us instead of ever losing ourselves in a foreign form, as in this example.

orlando
12.28.10
01:43

I ♥ this collection !

Happy New Year !

Alicia Lee Wade
12.31.10
01:50

John Foster and his wife, Teenuh, have been longtime collectors of self-taught art and vernacular photography. Their collection of anonymous, found snapshots has toured the country for five years and has been featured in Harper’s, Newsweek Online and others.

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