'The Plumbob is a green crystal used in most titles of The Sims series to identify the character selected and to which the player can give commands. It is also used to show the mood of playable Sims'. (The Wiki Sims)

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​One of a series of objects selected for the R&B Artist notebook project. To qualify for the pages of the fictitious books, the proposed object had to fulfill various criteria. The 'Plumbob' qualified by being an object of no substance, not only digital but even within the 'Sims' game, where the characters are seemingly unaware of this floating jewel.

'Show-in-my-Shoe' was one of the first appearances of the 'Bob,' emerging from the fiery hell of a shoe. It set the idea in motion that the 'Bob' might fleetingly appear in unlikely spaces and events. In a shower, at a party, at a club, in a crypt, sometimes by a small handheld projector—an object that didn't need permission to arise.

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