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Quarterly Co. interviews Mark

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:27 am Wed, Jan 30, 2013

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Quarterly Co. is a "subscription service for wonderful things. [They] send people physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice." Today, they interviewed me about my Quarterly picks and some good and bad things I get in the mail.

1. How did you come up with the idea for your latest Quarterly mailing?

As a kid, I loved the Johnson Smith Catalog. It was a thick, digest sized catalog loaded with different kinds of novelties: miniature cameras, magic tricks, specialty wristwatches, glow-in-the-dark paints, rubber masks, and other odd curios. I wanted to recapture that magic feeling that I got when I perused the catalog.

5 Questions for Mark Frauenfelder

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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TheOven

Imma waiting with baited breath. Mine hasn’t arrived yet.
TheOven

What am I doing? I shouldn’t even be looking at this!
Ambiguity

Johnson Smith — along with Abracadabra Magic Shop — were my go to places to spend my allowance when I was a young ‘un. Or really, anything from the back of Boy’s Life!
http://twitter.com/dargaud Guillaume Dargaud

Interesting. I looked at the site but can’t find the list of objects shipped previously.