Illustration

Obsessive Consumption

March 5, 2012

Kate Bingaman Burt has been drawing everything she has purchased since February 2006. The first three years were compiled into the book Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Six years into the project, we look back to the origins, featuring what was purchased in that February of 2006.

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$25.00 worth of gas. I paid at the pump and bought a coke. Purchased at the Conoco on Hwy 12 in Starkville, MS. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Chick-filet that I guilted one of my students into leaving class and picking up for me. Diet Coke. Gross chicken sandwich and waffle fries. I need to stop. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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I haven’t eaten pudding in years. I had forgotten the joy of a bowl of banana pudding neatly surrounded by vanilla wafers. I rediscovered that tonight. Excellent. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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I bought six clipboards at the campus bookmart today. They were $1.39 each. I hung them behind my desk in my office. I might spray paint them. I am not sure yet. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Starkville, Mississippi finally has Brokeback Mountain in the local theater…for a while it was only playing in cities hours away from us. Six word review: good, sad, beautiful, cry, like, baby. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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We ordered a large cheese pizza tonight and watched a Netflix. I ate half. He ate half. Ugh. I feel way too full. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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I used to love these in elementary school. I was thinking about this pen the other day and today I saw one and got it. I used it while I was paying bills today. Red = paid. Green = due date. I haven’t thought of uses for the black or blue ink yet. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Black sketchbook purchases at the Chalet art supply store in Starkville. I need some place to keep these daily drawings. $10.00. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Orange Powerade bought at the BP in Starkville for $1.50. I know I should just drink water, but I succumb to the orangy sweet goodness fairly often. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Part of a three pack. I prefer these to the sticks. And I don’t think the whitening promise really works. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Well, it was between drawing gummi worms or a flash drive and I felt like I have been drawing too many food items and technology won out over sugary candy that I really didn’t enjoy that much anyway. This is actually going to be used by cliff. It was $50.00. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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$25 ticket for the Addy’s in Tuscaloosa, Alabama tonight. That included two drinks! We want two drinks! (ala pavement two states…sorry, I do that whenever I hear two ANYTHING). Patrick and I won a silver for the school website and Jamie and I won best of show in the print category for our mobilivre promotions. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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I have been all about the 1893 World’s Fair lately. This documentary was good! A couple of the live action shots were cheesy (bad belly dancers and repeated jolly men drinking beer), but the narration (Gene Wilder) and the photographs were great! © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Again making the resolution to NEVER EVER eat fried foods EVER again. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Tupelo Mississippi in effect! I went to TJ Maxx and bought some tights and these Franco Sarto gold shoes for $11.00. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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Yeah, this stuff is gross, but it freaking works. Picked a four pack at the BP so now I am rocking the red bull, STILL organizing images for my lecture in Boston and, um, listening to America’s Next Top Model…I think it is cycle 1. Oh, and the bull cost $6.99 for four. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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One of my favorite girly indulgences. My brows had to be properly groomed before I stepped in front of an audience at the conference. I KNEW they would all be there to look at my brows and NOT to hear the panel that I was on. DUH. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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I forgot my GREAT headphones at home. These really really sucked. I bought them at one of the airport newsstands in Atlanta for $7.99. Really, really flimsy and BAD sound quality. Gross. © Kate Bingaman Burt.

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