Tube Stop

A Human Reading Being at Southwark station (tube stop for Tate Modern in London) with a wee bit of  Prozacville genius tucked into a "discard" pocket. 

And since I'm in a linking mood, but more because I am a huge fan of his podcast, I suggest you have a listen to Read Me Something You Love.

100/200

                                                                      

                   Second 'edition' of 100 out into the world.
                                       [happy now]

EAC & PML

 

@Eastport Arts Center & Peavey Memorial Library 
in Eastport, Maine, USA

à la biblio

 @ the Calais Free Library in Calais, Maine

(where you must pay for your library card)

O Canada!

 DJ Berger is probably the most charming grouch I know and a splendid writer and artist besides. (yes, splendid) 

Nice blog post about his discard pockets here.

Vienna/ Austria

 No.33/200 - Kirchengasse 22, 1070 Vienna / Austria - blackboard at sixxa store together with art toy trading and stickers from "woerm" and "stickaz huntaz" thanks to Wolfgang!

Peru!

Ann went to visit Sophie in Cuzco, Peru and

 left a "discard" pocket in good hands with a street artist they met there.

You Look Fabulous!

@ 604 Thrift on Congress, Portland, Maine.

Map App

This is just a screen shot, but if you go to the site   

you can put a pointer exactly where you've put a pocket. 

If you decide to add a pointer:

• Have an image handy.

• Choose 'Installation' for the type of street art.

• In the details box I just wrote "discard project" and this blog address so the Description&Title search can find it.

• If you don't want to use your own email as a contact, you can use discard.art@gmail.com

I tried it with the pocket posted in Orono

And also the one in Cambridge

Stick 'em up!

found: Texas

Illustrated things

@ the art shop on Kings Street in Cambridge, UK

There's a Baggelboy original in there. I can tell.

You Are Here

@Lord Hall, UMaine, Orono

(there's a Calithump! machine there too - bring quarters)

JELL-O Boxes & Library Pockets

While my mother shopped at Curly's, my favorite (maybe I mean compulsive) pass time was to sort & stack the JELL-O boxes. I really, really loved doing that. 

I did. 

Really.

Anyway, fifty years later, I'm generally not so concerned with stacking & sorting, but there's a tidy part of my JELL-O box brain that would be really, really happy if  I could send out another round of 100 pockets.

This is weird, right?

 

Just the same, if you have friends or family who mind want to do some pocket-sticking - or if you want more- email me.

Some links

Free Art Friday

Before I die I want to. . . _____

QRadio

Interactive Street Art (via tumblr)

I Wish This Was 

ACCESS

JAFA Girls 

Hiding Pennies

Words are important and what things are named carry some weight.

Wikipedia seems to be pretty good at keeping things straight.

[oh crap - now do I have to rhyme the rest of this post? no.] 

The thing is, though street art is free and available for everyone, 
you can't really take it home with you.

I hope that this project can make the sharing and the finding of art both 
more intimate and more global.

This part in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim At Tinker Creek has always stuck with me:

"When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. It was a curious compulsion; sadly, I’ve never been
seized by it since. For some reason I always “hid” the penny along the same stretch of sidewalk up the street. I would cradle it at the roots of a sycamore, say, or in a hole left by a chipped-off
piece of sidewalk. Then I would take a piece of chalk, and, starting at either end of the block, draw huge arrows leading up to the penny from both directions. After I learned to write I labeled the arrows: SURPRISE AHEAD or MONEY THIS WAY. I was greatly excited, during all this arrow-drawing, at the thought of the first lucky passer-by who would receive in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. But I never lurked about. I would go straight home and not give the matter another thought, until, some months later, I would be gripped again by the impulse to hide another penny."

-Michele showed me The Common Denominator and it reminded me 
of The Infinity Project. If you can think of others like it, please let me know -

POW!

That was quick.

I love the post office.

 I do. 
Seriously.

There's one here

and some in Germany with Kerstin

100/100

 Got the first batch of 100 pockets to the post office yesterday. 

More to come...