The Invention of Collecting

2016-04-13

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“A card collection is a magic carpet that takes you away from work-a-day cares to havens of relaxing quietude where you can relive the pleasures and adventures of a past day — brought to life in vivid picture and prose.”

-Jefferson R. Burdick

Thanks to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

http://goo.gl/tghUP3

Thanks To Guinness World Records

http://goo.gl/7Q7RYn

Huge thanks to ALL the Vsauce fans who submitted their collections!

Jefferson Burdick Collection At The Met

http://goo.gl/By96Xn

BOOKS

Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger

http://goo.gl/sWHlwj

Cultures Of Collecting by Roger Cardinal

http://goo.gl/iu31Wd

To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors by Philipp Blom

http://goo.gl/KDcHbV

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions by Jaak Panksepp

http://goo.gl/39e1Vj

ONLINE RESOURCES

A Hobby To Many, Card Collecting Was Life’s Work For One Man by Ken Belson

http://goo.gl/zwI8LE

The Psychology Of Collecting by Mark B. McKinley

http://goo.gl/nmaBch

Why You Can’t Stop

https://goo.gl/R07B2e

Why Do We Collect Things?

http://goo.gl/GWEajf

Collecting Vs Hoarding

https://goo.gl/MRRni8

ASSET CREDITS

Specimen Jars Photo by Rolf Brecher

https://goo.gl/sKU7V8

Westinghouse Television Commercial 1950

https://goo.gl/d9zlku

Honus Wagner Card Fetches $2.1 Million At Auction

http://goo.gl/0UtOq8

Navajo Triple Weave And 12 Point Odama Dreamcatcher by Native Eye

https://goo.gl/91BiYd

https://goo.gl/BUrm0i

Baseball Game and Weehawken Ferry, New York, Stock Footage By Internet Archive

https://goo.gl/VplsKm

Umberto Eco - I Was Always Narrating by Louisiana Channel

http://goo.gl/JbJgRA

Compulsive Hoarding Apartment by Grap

https://goo.gl/zOT3pT

Hoarding Living Room by Shdwwulf

https://goo.gl/BM2BA3

Sir Hans Sloane by Stephen Slaughter, Stephencdickson

https://goo.gl/DiJvlt

The British Museum History by BHO

http://goo.gl/TBnuqz

Lunch boxes by nickd

https://goo.gl/L0BABV

Rock Collection by LookyThat

https://goo.gl/lhw3d1

Elvis Presley's X-Ray Auction

http://goo.gl/vUO60k

Maryly Snow Toothbrush Collection Photo By Luz Marina Ruiz

http://goo.gl/r7CnoX

http://goo.gl/kQPoZn

Special Thanks To Psychologists Joshua And Tara Clapp

VIDEO CREDITS

Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber

Website: http://kevinlieber.com

Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media

http://koala.fm/

VFX by Eric Langlay

https://goo.gl/EAuBb3

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

http://jaypellizzi.com/

Coordination By Lisa Solimeo

https://twitter.com/SometimesITweet

Select Music by Jake Chudnow

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow

Outro Music Fathoms by Tom Peters

http://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/fathoms_87503

Vsauce2 Links

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo

Website: http://www.vsauce.com

Canine Cameo by Lucy