Journey to the End of the Night: Oakland by Myrna Minx, Lincøln
June 22nd, 2009 6:51 PM / Location: 37.808504,-122.2497CHECKPOINT 2
Lincoln decided he wanted to man a checkpoint with Myrna Minx.
Myrna Minx wanted to man Checkpoint 2.
And so it was.
Myrna called Lincoln with the idea that she would be in a tuxedo and he'd be wearing a cocktail dress, "fishing" on Lake Merritt. Lincoln decided to do a completion of Donation By Other Means with every runner that came through the checkpoint. So Lincoln photographed every runner that came through the checkpoint.
248 runners began the race. 182 made it to Checkpoint 2.
The first runners to arrive were given the charge of finding suitable "fishing poles." These proved to be sticks with string tied to them. Some runners were asked to tell fishermen's tales, and finally, as the checkpoint became very busy, many runners were just asked to submit their souls to the camera and forego the telling of tales or any other form of delay.
Lincoln recorded most of the people's names as they came through so we'd have names to go with the faces.
Watching the sunset and lights come on on Lake Merritt was a lovely way to experience Journey to the End of the Night as staff members. It was fun meeting everyone and we hope to see you at the next one..
If you hit the + larger button below you can hear a recording that was made at the time the photos were taken while you look at the photos that follow.
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MonkeyBoy Dan
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Jason 7au
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Anomaly
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Sean Mahan
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Ben Yamiin
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Ink Tea
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Not Here No More
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Amby D
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Kid A
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Dang it! You were the one person I couldn't make out clearly! D'oh!
I'll change it if you like.
do what you like with it; its already been donated.
and let me say, sir, that its quite a nice project you and myrna have assembled.
This was awesome to review. Thanks for being so diligent with that camera and audio recorder!
I got there to visit, and saw what Lincøln was up to with documenting all that arrived, and was super impressed with his diligence! I was barely able to alert runners about who was coming through our checkpoint because we got swamped so soon after the first few arrived.
I enjoyed this as well. Thanks to both of you for helping out with the event!
Extra points for the picture of me having my real name, while everyone else gets their sf0 name! Yet, I don't think I ever gave my real name?.... lol
Also, snappy dress!
vote because you looked liked you had waaaaay too much fun.
favorite because you have lincoln in a dress.
i am very very very very very very very very very very sorry i missed all of this.
I believe the fine wine sipped at check point 2 by myself and Bjorn Teuleuse gave us the strength to finish the journey with green ribbons. Your tux was dashing!
That's a very impressive set of pictures! I also didn't realize, when I saw him later in the dark, just how good Lincoln looked in that dress. :)
I enjoyed seeing all those pictures of people having a good time.
which i honestly am kinda ok with.