The Illusiveness of the Entirely Useless | MetaFilter

The Illusiveness of the Entirely Useless | MetaFilter: "So, there's a Japanese artistic concept called a Thomasson. In short, they are 'defunct and useless objects, attached to someone's property and aesthetically maintained.' But a more nuanced explanation involves artist Akasegawa Genpei, baseball player Gary Thomasson, and a whole generation of Japanese kids who wandered around Tokyo, looking for architectural abnormalities."