Know your knolling

[@M]

Do you knoll? Knolling is the process of arranging related objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organization. I'm OCD, so, it's almost impossible for me not to automatically do this when I'm arranging things.

I didn't know there was actually a word for it, until today, when a woman commented on a photo of building block pieces I posted in one of my reviews.

The word knoll makes me think of D&D Gnolls too!

 

[sylvie]

Are you actually diagnosed with a form of OCD or are you just describing your orientation towards Tetris poisoning, or a Diablo II inventory ?

 

[@M]

My neurologist actually diagnosed me with OCD, and I was there to see him for my MS, not that. He didn't like that I could easily recall exact information about my lumbar puncture (spinal tap) results in great detail, including oligoclonal band (byproducts of inflammation) numbers and pairing in my cerebral spinal fluid and blood serum, and explain what it all meant to him in even greater detail. He drily commented that many of his patients can't even remember that they had a spinal tap, let alone all the information I recounted for him.

 

[NeoSneth]

I would love to do a shadowbox like this.

I tend to Tetris stuff rather than lay it all out...or knoll it.
Never heard this term. Seems like something from Japan...

 

[StevenK]

Hadn't heard of it before but now I see the pictures I can appreciate the attraction

 

[@M]

"The word ‘knolling’, which literally means organizing objects at right angles, was first used in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry’s furniture fabrication shop. Kromelow used to arrange his displaced tools at right angles on all surfaces, and called this routine knolling, because the tools were arranged in right angles — similar to Knoll furniture."

The History of Knolling — Our Favorite Instagram Trend

Meet the most popular Instagram trend that you’ve never heard of. It’s called ‘knolling’ and you already love it.

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[norton9478]

ASD

 

[ggallegos1]

I've seen these as shadow boxes for disassembled Gameboys or game controllers, and i can appreciate the style but can't go beyond that

 

[SignOfGoob]

…in what situation, and for how long, is it useful or practical to have so many things laying out, regardless of them being lined up? You bump the table and 50 things roll off it. Someone needs some zip lock bags.

Since I’m a technician I’ve taken apart a lot of shit, kept it organized, and put it back together. However the purpose of the organization is to put it all back again. It doesn’t just…lay out, in a pose, like these photos and almost never is artful photography a part of this process. I would never remove every ball bearing from a drill, for example, and then arrange the little BBs like that picture. “Those fuckers need to be in a little bag or they will be lost.” is what anyone who’s ever taken apart a drill before would think. Then they’d look at the picture again and see that nobody is ever putting it back together again anyway, it’s just junk sculpture pretending to be an exploded view.