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A place you have never been. by Loki, anna one

February 7th, 2010 2:57 PM / Location: -43.40020,172.69944

INSTRUCTIONS: Go Here
Now copy the random word go to Google maps
Select find business and enter the random word in the left text field and your address in the right address field.

Go to the first business listed that you have never been to.

ADDENDUM: write the word permanently or semi-permanently outside the business.

Both of us had plans for this task long ago. anna one was poised to install a chalk mandala at the office of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, while Loki came very near to a completion which differed from Spidere's only in being a few days later and far less interesting.

Years later, we found ourselves with a few hours to kill and decided to actually complete it.

The original random word generating website is long gone. After spending far too long trying to find a replacement online, we cobbled together our own and generated the word disuse.

Google maps turned up a wikipedia article inspired location: The Waimakariri River.

Actually, the map sent us to a seemingly random spot in the middle of Charon street, a few blocks away from the river itself. In the time since we completed this task, the Google results have changed, and now appear much more reasonable. Our image capture of the original map was lost in a hard drive failure. (It is only thanks to the magic of photorec that we have any proof of the task completion.)

The rest is in captions.

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DISUSE
Mythic streets
More mythic streets
Our mythic street
The spot
The river
Mud
More mud
Not a stone
Marking
DISUSE
Disolving USE
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posted by rongo rongo on February 7th, 2010 3:34 PM

Ah, written in snails. A neat chrononautic completion.

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posted by relet 裁判長 on February 8th, 2010 2:43 AM

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posted by Ty Ødin on February 7th, 2010 4:13 PM

Nice touch with the snails.

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posted by Minch on February 8th, 2010 8:53 AM

writing with snails feels wonderfully whimsical to me.

Beautiful. +1
posted by Harry Lee on February 8th, 2010 3:31 AM

I imagine the scene in a strange dream like sequence, or in a movie where nobody talks... I'm not sure why.

snails. +1
posted by King of Spain on February 9th, 2010 8:04 PM

I am floored. every single one of my five votes was for those snails. there were none left for the rest of this praxis.