Intimidated by her surroundings and fearful that she was out of her depth in the prestigious corridors of the Royal College of Art, Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh hid herself away in the school workshop with a vague idea of finding a new, fix-everything material.
And, even when it is not the intent, does finding a new use for material like an old mug shot amount to profiting off someone else's ancient misfortune?
If the reviewer is clearly an attack dog and responds by finding a new list of objectionable material in the paper, I make what corrections I feel are necessary and just ask the editor to judge.
Michael Repper - Bending Music, Spectrograms for Donald Barra's new book, "Shaping Music" Adam Shepperd - live noise compositions in the past; finding a new way to present the material to people: create a sound sculpture with the older noise compositions.
In the case of discarded theatrical materials, finding a new home for them is simply not worth the trouble to producers, who don't have the time or financial incentive to put a notice on Craigslist and hope that people show up as promised.
"We have immense respect for the original film, and the challenge, as with any adaptation, is doing it justice – respecting the source material, but finding a new way in and taking a different direction, and that is what we've done," says Stern.
But in rural Paraguay, where an estimated 300,000 or more families lack adequate homes, it is finding a new use as a low-cost construction material.
Now, the decades of material produced by that climate science denial machinery is finding a new audience.
Now all materials in the collection are open to the public at Columbia, finding a new place to welcome scholars.
