Dust Bureau

Welcome to DUST BUREAU: art, web design, discourse and manifestation wrapped up in an interesting collection of pages, papers and informative articles for your enjoyment!

Dust BureauDUST BUREAU is both a real and an imagined realm, conducive to the formality of a high office of internal affairs, and the folk of an antique highboy with wobbly legs and creaky drawers.

It is pinstriped grey flannel suits and hammers, cobwebbed chandeliers undoing themselves and crashing down on masquerade balls.

It is the spiders that manifest in the memories of an afternoon daydream.

It is the pageantry of good impressions and the echoing laughs of dreams that becloud the waking life.

It is a portal to success and prosperity where lack and poverty once stood on a lonely street in a lonely city somewhere in time.

It is whatever you want it to be, wherever you are and whatever you do.

Opportunity

There really is so much to be discovered and enjoyed in life. A great opportunity should never be missed or passed by as so often happens to so many people.

It depends on what opportunities present themselves to us, but almost all of the time they will manifest an improvement in one way or another to our lives. By staying aware of what's going on around us and keeping our eyes and ears open, we might catch this or that elusive snippet that will lead to something of great importance to us, whether we know it in the moment or not.

Think in terms of what your true opportunity goals are and you'll be sure to find and achieve them more easily than you would otherwise.

Great Quotes

There is something special about the way in which different people view life and the things that are important or not, as the case may be.

That multitude of ideas coalesces into what certain financiers sometimes like to create in those often heart warming, poignant quotes that seem to appear at every turn. Let's not miss out on that particular steam boat ride by adding a great one that stands out as being relevant to this project in particular.

Dust is the cloak that shrouds many an entity of beauty - those exotic curiosities lurking in the shadows, ancient heirlooms passed down from dreamer to dreamer, the spirits of old ideas reborn for new times.

"I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day..."

-Alice, from Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas



DUST BUREAU was originally realized by Joe Chappell in Portland, Oregon early 2005. Through an open door, it was telepathically transported to San Francisco in February 2006, where it now manifests out of an old Edwardian on Alamo Square Park. For information, please send your queries to:

joe@dustbureau.com.