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!
April 23, 2012
Peru!
Ann went to visit Sophie in Cuzco, Peru and
left a "discard" pocket in good hands with a street artist they met there.
April 18, 2012
April 17, 2012
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
April 16, 2012
April 12, 2012
April 8, 2012
April 7, 2012
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?
April 4, 2012
April 3, 2012
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:
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."
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 -
of The Infinity Project. If you can think of others like it, please let me know -
April 2, 2012
POW!
That was quick.
I love the post office.
I do.
Seriously.
Seriously.
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| There's one here |
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| and some in Germany with Kerstin |
April 1, 2012
March 31, 2012
Who is Madam de Sévigné?
Libraries are always discarding books and I am always collecting them.
Sometimes I bring them home to read.
Sometimes I bring them home because I can't bear to see them abandoned like that.
Sometimes I bring them home, tear them apart and re-use them.
I can't read French, but Madam de Sévigné's book of letter's called to me - so I brought her home, tore out her back pocket and got an idea.
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March 29, 2012
While we wait...some more details
Here's the plan:
I've got a bunch of library card pockets (see above) that people around the world are in the process of sticking up around their neighborhoods for you to use as a sort of trading library for tiny artsy things and such- i.e whatever fits.
I imagine the scenario to play out like this: You (or someone like you) comes upon one of these pockets stuck to a wall somewhere, you could take what's in it, replace it with something/anything that you made, and then you send a picture of your find to this blog for everyone to see.
The pocket has all the directions on "how to play" printed on it in a
I've got a bunch of library card pockets (see above) that people around the world are in the process of sticking up around their neighborhoods for you to use as a sort of trading library for tiny artsy things and such- i.e whatever fits.
I imagine the scenario to play out like this: You (or someone like you) comes upon one of these pockets stuck to a wall somewhere, you could take what's in it, replace it with something/anything that you made, and then you send a picture of your find to this blog for everyone to see.
The pocket has all the directions on "how to play" printed on it in a
very simple (nearly raw) format.
There's a facebook group (discard) and a twitter(discardart) feed too, but for now I'm just getting the pockets out there. Can I mail you 2 or 3 to stick to a wall somewhere?
There's a facebook group (discard) and a twitter(discardart) feed too, but for now I'm just getting the pockets out there. Can I mail you 2 or 3 to stick to a wall somewhere?
I will send you pockets with info on what to do with them.
Don't worry,
the 'directions' are entirely open to your interpretation.
I'm kind of excited about this.
I'm kind of excited about this.
Email me your mailing address if you want to play.
discard.art@gmail.com
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