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Ink Tea
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Journey to the End of the Night Chicago by Ink Tea

April 22nd, 2008 11:29 PM / Location: 41.867465,-87.63923

INSTRUCTIONS: A pursuit across Chicagø in 6 parts, staged on the night of April 19th, 2008.

The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.

For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.


If you participated in Journey Chicagø - as a player, chaser, or volunteer - please post your adventure here. We encourage you to be detailed and thorough. If you have photographs, please post them. If you don't, consider making a comic. Describe your chases, the people you met, what you thought of the route, the checkpoints, and the city in general. Feel free to make opulent references to Debord, de Certeau, Céline, Psychogeography, Social Plastik, subversive play, Reclaim the Streets, and the aesthetics of failure.

Yours,
Dax Tran-Caffee

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*** That will be a story for another time.
****Are we surprised? Not likely. I may seem more refined in writing and praxis, but I assure you, I'm fairly impish.

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OH! +1
posted by JJason Recognition on April 23rd, 2008 6:40 AM

Ok now I feel stupid. I only just now realized that "Two Girls, One Dress" was the clue for the next checkpoint.

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on April 23rd, 2008 7:52 AM

As soon as the page loaded up and I saw you'd completed this analog style, I wanted to vote. It got even better after I read it.

Hoo-ray for analog!

Dear Inky, +1
posted by Bex. on April 23rd, 2008 1:03 PM

Its nice to hear about it from the perspective of a station person. I've often thought thats what I'd do if i ever got to go to JTTEOTN (due to some bad arthritis).
Also, do you really read fortunes? (I do, and get excited to know other fortune tellers who aren't really socially maladjusted :)
Plus, I like your make-up.

Love,
Bex

p.s. CM, Ms. Tea has anologued a few tasks I think...

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posted by Ink Tea on April 23rd, 2008 1:20 PM

Dear Bex,

It's so charming to be written to, in my own style! I think the most fun as a station person would be at an earlier station, or at the very last station, because you could then move to the last station in time to see awards, culmination, and whatnot. At the beginning, people are excited, energized, etc.

I do tell fortunes, occasionally- I own a couple of tarot decks and am fairly familiar with the card meanings; I threw the Celtic Cross for one of the conjoined twins but for players gave them a quick one card reading based on a cut deck, and at one point in high school memorized a lot of palmistry. But I don't really put any stock in that sort of thing. I learned to play Triumphs, which is my favorite use for a deck of tarot (which I'm mostly attracted to as they're more interesting than regular cards). I'm probably well-adjusted as I'm not a believer; the most profound fortunes have been ones I told with too much whiskey.

Thanks!

Love,
Inky

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posted by teucer on April 23rd, 2008 1:54 PM

Dear Inky,

if you like games with tarot cards, sometime you need to ask help im a bear to teach you Gnostica. (He also does fortune-telling, though he is also not a believer. For that matter, so do I, though I favor geomancy. Man, we should form a "fortune-telling skeptics" team or something.)

Love,
Dok H

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posted by Dax Tran-Caffee on April 23rd, 2008 2:44 PM

Swell job at the last checkpoint. Sorry there was confusion over the checkpoint location. Also that it took so much trouble to get out of Chicagø. That tire photo is quite impressive. I'm glad you had a donut.

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posted by Ink Tea on April 23rd, 2008 2:48 PM

Dear Dax,

The loveliness of the weekend far eclipses the struggles of the weekend.

Love,
Inky

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posted by Burn Unit on April 24th, 2008 4:53 PM

Inkiness + Impiness = F T Win.

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posted by Fonne Tayne on April 24th, 2008 4:57 PM

"Like you do."


As a true virtuoso would.