Fancy that.

 Wolfgang Breyscha, photographer/artist/street art supporter is at it again! 
This time he put a pocket in the 

 INOPERAbLE Gallery in Vienna (best gallery in Europe in 2011 and 2012) 

 Nearby are works by nychos, shida, michael hacker and other international and national artists.

Now I want to paint my bike red.

  Artist, curator, writer Stefano Pasquini has lived all over the world 

and left this pocket here in Piazza di Porta Saragozza,  Bologna, Italy

la poche?

She's back from Paris*, but Adriana kindly left a pocket here.

*she's still there, but coming home soon.

Lawn Guyland

Middle Country Public Library in Centereach

  and 
at bus stop near Walgreen's in Selden
 
Thanks Karen! I wish I was there to *take one.*

South Street

My old friend Ben, used to spend plenty of time on South Street in Philadelphia.

On a return visit he stuck this pocket right between The Pearl of Africa & Eye Chic

More in Machias

Jennifer, another 2-D Art student at UMM, planted this one at the  

Whole Life Natural Market in Machias, Maine.

with Coffee

 

Crystal pinned this one on the bulletin board near the coffeepot at Mineola Memorial Library in Mineola, Texas.

Truck Stop

Jennifer, the keeper of the Eve-N-Odd gallery, dropped off a pocket at the 

TRUCK gallery in Calgary. 

That's in Canada, if you're keeping score.

Bus Stop in Dallas, Texas

 

I'd been imaging these things being stuck to bus stops from the start. Thank you Willie!

[and I don't plan on making a habit of it, but this post calls for a soundtrack.]

St. Petersburg

       Looks like Jennifer at Eve-N-Odd Gallery in 

St. Petersburg, Florida is busy with about a million cool projects.

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.

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

Illustrated things

@ the art shop on Kings Street in Cambridge, UK

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

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 -