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Dixon Ticonderoga
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Last Logged In: July 26th, 2010
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Mihi by Dixon Ticonderoga

April 16th, 2010 10:47 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: In Maori culture, when you formally introduce yourself in a meeting house it is called a "Mihi". You tell people your canoe, tribe, sub-tribe and family, but you ALSO identify specific geological features to which you "belong". For example, "your" lake, mountain, river, forest etc.

Chose at least three geographical features that you consider "yours". Document them.

In a city with so many people, I initially struggled to try and think of what places I could take as mine without fearing how public they may be. On my daily navigations, I normally aim for convenience, so the places that I ended up staking claim to were the ones that I always feel obligated to use on my travels. These three photos exemplify those spots.

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First Sneak

First Sneak

This is the first thing that I sneak through on my daily commute.


Second Sneak

Second Sneak

This is the second thing I sneak through on my way to work.


Third Sneak

Third Sneak

This is the third sneak that I take to get myself in to work.



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a thoughtful choice
posted by Loki on April 20th, 2010 3:10 AM

Welcome.

Thoughtful indeed! ~Waldo
posted by Waldo Cheerio on April 21st, 2010 12:05 AM

While I have enjoyed reading completions of this task before, it was only in cases where I was curious to know more about the author already. Artmouse's completion is great, but I doubt I would've cared if she wasn't already inside my monkeysphere. Sadly, I agree largely with Lowtek's thought on these tasks.

This completion is different though. The idea behind mihi is taken advantage of in a way that makes me think "praxis" rather than "diary". So definitely welcome to the game, I like the way you think Dixon "Hellaskeletons" Ticonderoga (which, for the record, makes me think of awesome pencil skeletons). Let us know if you have any questions about how to make your completions more fun to do, or more fun to read, or what have you.

It's like blogging, but with points.
posted by Loki on April 24th, 2010 12:46 PM

Sorry to derail the discussion of a fine task completion, Dixon. (Because comments cause tasks to get noticed, even irrelevant comments are probably a good thing; hence, I'm not too sorry.)

Waldo, I think you're the first person except me that I've ever heard use the monkeysphere in conversation, aside from Trickster Tao who introduced me to the idea and pointed me to Robin Dunbar's work. There's a lot to dislike about the word - it doesn't follow the usual something-sphere construction, and the relationship to monkeys is tenuous. But, I'm convinced the phenomenon it describes is genuine, important, and needs an short and pop-psychology friendly name of some kind. ("Individuals within your neocortex-size-determined cognitive group" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.)