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la flaneuse
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Street Spelling by la flaneuse

October 16th, 2006 7:27 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Spell out your character's name or your name in San Francisco street signs, one for each letter. Take pictures of each street sign for proof.

Better yet, have someone else spell out for you and trade pictures.

My starting point: Abeel Street. From there, I got all of the remaining streets to spell LA FLANEUSE by only walking along streets that started with the letters I needed.

That is, until I got to Easton Avenue. I thought I would be able to cut through that block to get to my last letter on Union Street, but alas, all the openings I saw were fenced off, and la flaneuse didn't feel like clambering over fences that afternoon. Stymied! So there was a very short block detour on Mine Street to get over to Union. But before that, the letters were acquired along this route:

Abeel Street
Elijah's Way
Neilson Street up to
Liberty Street (the only sign I saw on this short length was the ugly 1970s mall sign--no standard sign in sight) which runs into
Livingston Ave
[back on Livingston and Liberty over to Neilson and then up to]
Albany Street, where I paused to snap
Spring Street where it intersected
French Street is what Albany turns into, and then from French I went up
Easton Avenue
[to the aforementioned detour on Mine Street, which spoiled my run]
Union Street

Because my Photoshop skills are almost nil, it was quicker for me to print out the photos in color and cut and tape them together, zine style.

All these streets are in New Brunswick, NJ. Map of my route included!

Once I realized I could get all the streets without walking along any other streets, this was more fun than I thought it would be. It got me to walk on a few blocks I hadn't been on yet, and now I have a few more associations with places in this new-to-me town.

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La Flaneuse, street sign style

La Flaneuse, street sign style


My walking route in New Brunswick

My walking route in New Brunswick



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posted by SNORLAX on October 16th, 2006 7:50 PM

well planned and executed!

Thanks
posted by la flaneuse on November 5th, 2006 12:42 AM

Btw, the execution's orderliness was out of character, I know, but even psychogeographers sometimes have restricted time.....