yes. atop the piano in a local coffeehouse in my area, on a table in a laundromat - among other places - i & other people leave stuff for others...mainly books & magazines, though 1 time i left a tarot card set in the laundromat.
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Thu, May 20, 2004 - 12:26 PMI used to leave those cheap plastic buddha statues around in phone booths, on window ledges, etc. I've also left things I didn't want--a knit cap, a deck of cards--around for people to find. -
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Mon, May 24, 2004 - 11:24 AMlast night i put some unwanted clothes in a dumpster in the alley in back of the downtown Kinko's outlet at the opposite end of the block from where i live in Santa Barbara. the dumpster's lid was wide open so i could easily toss the clothing from a sitting position in my wheelchair into the dumpster.
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Tue, September 7, 2004 - 7:39 PMI leave those little ceramic animal figurines you get in Red Rose Tea boxes at indie coffee shops around town. Look for one near you! -
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Fri, October 8, 2004 - 10:42 AMOK, so this is going to sound obnoxious, noxious, and somehow wrong... but I used to work at Kinko's and I would constantly bump the copy count up a few notches when copying interesting shit.
Once, an artist came in and was copying photos of the most disgusting things --- like a horse's head, sans skin. Skinless horse head photo!
I still have it somewhere. I've always wanted to take that picture and make a "Lost Pet" flyer and post it up in a suburban neighborhood. Would that be "wrong?" How freakish would that make some poor, unsuspecting kid's childhood? Might it induce heartattacks in the elderly? Why does my mind want to do this? -
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Fri, October 8, 2004 - 11:30 AMah, Chuk, you have a wicked sense of humor! (& so do i.) GO AHEAD & DO IT. -
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Fri, October 8, 2004 - 10:09 PMThe funny thing is- I'll bet the majority of passer-by will not even notice the flyer...
That reminds me of something: there's a band in San Francisco called Caroliner Rainbow (or just Caroliner). My friend was telling me that they once advertised a show with flyers made from thin strips of paper (possibly hand-written- I don't quite remember that part) that they attached to the bottoms of telephone poles- so you had to squat or kneel down close to the ground to see what they said!
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Sat, October 9, 2004 - 2:04 PMI've been known to stuff short cryptic messages into product packages at various retail establishments. I love the idea that I'm influencing what people think about, if only for a few seconds.
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Wed, February 2, 2005 - 8:23 AMOh, yes, I like to leave strange...very strange.... photos (not disgusting, photos, you pervs).. in library books
I like to leave books that I think will shock or disturb or enlighten people , in public places, like Doctor's offices, grocery stores, bus seats, laundry mats,
Sometimes, if I have time, I'll set an odd object on the sidewalk or on top of someones' car..and sit away and watch reactions...yummy. -
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Wed, February 2, 2005 - 2:08 PMI usta leave change in the pay phone upon occassion....Lord knows I've found enough in them.... -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 3:09 PMthis morning i left last year's wall calendar atop the piano mentioned before. it has Celtic-based paintings. nice artwork, so someone will enjoy it. -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 5:50 PMi leave pennies in hard to reach places, knowing that if i ever return, they will remain as they were when i left them. every apartment i have lived in since leaving the family's home has an abundance of copper coin stashed around the vicinity. -
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Fri, March 4, 2005 - 10:19 AMthis morning i left 2 items i no longer want atop the piano: sunglasses & a magnifier. -
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Mon, March 14, 2005 - 1:55 PM& today, a backpack. -
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:14 AM& today i tossed a torn flannel shirt into a dumpster. -
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Tue, April 26, 2005 - 9:32 PMCurrently living and working in the developing world I realize what we throw out is sometimes a treasure to the locals.
I always make a point of leaving our "treasures" next to the dumpster to make it an easier find. When I leave something like a broken 2 wheel tri-cycle I sometimes am tempted to hang around and see the joy on some kids face at his discovery!
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Mon, May 2, 2005 - 9:04 PMI often bake more bread than I can possibly eat without it going stale, not wanting to waste gas on a single loaf. So when next door neighbors are not in, I like to put it into some street neighbors cart home and walk away for them to find. Also cookies on the hood of a car home is fun, especially when you've seen children or a family situation going on.
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Wed, May 4, 2005 - 4:11 PMtoday i snuck a 1-page collection of thoughts on vegetarianism (written by somebody else) into a magazine on a table in a coffeehouse. -
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Sat, May 7, 2005 - 4:57 PMsometimes i leave books or magazines on the front table in a local bar. -
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Sat, May 7, 2005 - 8:01 PMThe ones who go to their local bar to drink and read- these are some of your most dangerous characters! -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:52 PM(laughs diabollically) -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 2:39 PMYeah, something about being at bars, and anything in hand except a drink worries me. Well, maybe something warm, but I'm not going there.
Leave a tip for the keep to find, you always get an extra stiff one next time.
Make mine a double straight up.
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 2:43 PMI leave those little condiment packages, that they insist on throwing into takeout bags, on the lunch tables at work. They disappear rather rapidly.
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 3:42 PMI tend to leave things all over the place Ive abandoned copies of Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone in cafe's , taxis etc
Also left cd-r's containing autorun files to launch random weirdness in various places.
Found a vending machine a few weeks ago .. the ones where when you buy something a flap slides back to let you get at the goodies (you know the ones i mean)... replaced food with a small stuffed toy ive had for a while.
When i was in my teens i was one of the "lets glue coins to the floor brigade" and i havent changed much :p -
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Mon, May 9, 2005 - 11:20 AMi've had fantasies of disguising myself as a member of the Gideon organization & leaving copies of Principia Discordia or the Book of the Law in hotel rooms! -
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Wed, May 11, 2005 - 7:31 AMIn your fantasy what type of disguise would that entail? Ha Ha.
Holden if I'm ever again in Santa Barbara I'm gonna leave a ship's anchor on top of that piano for you to find. I have no doubt you'd find a way to get it home. -
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Fri, May 13, 2005 - 10:16 AMyesterday i left Life's Little Instruction Book in a coffeehouse & Schindler's List (the novel, not a tape or dvd of the movie) in a bar. -
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Fri, June 10, 2005 - 7:38 PMLast week I was in Santa Monica for back surgery. i had borrowed a wheelchair that had belonged to my grandmother and flown it out there (from Michigan) to use to get around SM. I used the buses a lot and my kids pushed my a lot on those very uneven streets...this was an old school/ hospital chair..not too great for city life.
On my last day, on the way to the bus stop to the airport one of the wheels started shimmying.... I told my kids..let's leave her here. ..maybe someone can fix her or at least use her to push stuff around ..so we did..
Colorado and fourth street....across from the Salvation Army.
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Wed, June 29, 2005 - 1:53 PMI left a pedal bike once, usually I will leave things around for others that I feel has done its time... -
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Fri, July 15, 2005 - 1:12 PMthis morning i tossed a torn shirt into a dumpster, & have acquired another shirt from a thrift store. -
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Sat, July 16, 2005 - 12:55 AMI found a little metal star that said "dream" on it.
I carried it to a different part of the city, left it resting against a tree in yerba buena garden.
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Sat, July 16, 2005 - 4:06 AMI leave unwanted clothing in the laundrymat.
I also have a free box at my place, so I am a bit of a voyeur over who gets what...I leave stuff in the box and watch the box get scavenged.
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Fri, August 5, 2005 - 11:59 AMrecently i've been taking bee pollen for my allergies, so i decided to do something with the empty plastic jars that contained it: i filled both of them with little plastic toys that i bought at a thrift store. this morning i put one of these toy jars on the table in a laundromat, & yesterday i put the other on a table in a coffeehouse. i hope they'll delight & intrigue someone! -
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Fri, August 5, 2005 - 1:09 PMNICE! in more ways than one! -
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Fri, August 5, 2005 - 1:45 PMYou are so cool Holden, I know you've made the day for someone. -
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Sun, August 7, 2005 - 1:32 PMforgot to mention that i also deliberately left behind a blanket. although freshly laundered & clean, it has an ugly permanent stain. *someone* wil find it uefull! -
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 10:48 AMtoday i tossed into the aforementioned dumpster, 4 shirts, including, sadly, a favorite of mine that now has permanent conspicuous ink stain. i noticed that someone else has begun using this dumpster to abandon clothing; saw a pair of jeans.
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Tue, September 20, 2005 - 10:50 PMI occasionally would buy old wallets at estate sales. I had a couple of nice old ones, but I stored them in the basement and the moisture kind of damaged the leather. I tried to clean them, but it didn't come out right, so I decided to put stuff in them and keep them in the car and throw them out the window, randomly into the weeds, as i was driving around town.
I put in mostly other stuff that I'd found, like scratched off lottery tickets.
I didn't want to make it seem too 'arty', but there was also a poem or letter or something that I'd either written myself or found somewhere...I wish I could remember what it was now.
All I can remember is the phrase "Pray for us, Abe Lincoln", but I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it... -
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 12:34 AMI am thinking of releasing a bunch of balloons with various weird notes on them, to distribute semi-randomly, and make people think or at least go "what the fuck??"
hakim bey is a good candidate for at least one of the scraps of paper. -
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 11:51 AMI like the "random mailing" aspect. In this case, random air mail...
A friend and I skipped school once and put notes in bottles and threw them off a bridge. A nice old lady (retired and with surplus time to spend beachcombing) a few towns down river replied to us about a month later.
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Marketers mail things to strangers, more or less at random (I don't really know their methods...), but it seems odd to mail something that isn't commercial to strangers chosen at random from phonebooks across the country... -
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 5:24 PMthat..would be cool.
I'm gathering all the addresses of my friends and of everyone I've ever done a mail art project with, and at some point, I'll mail them each something. It probably won't be planned, just "eh, I'm gonna mail this person a button." and they will be so confused... I don't know if I'll put my return address. :) -
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Wed, September 28, 2005 - 3:23 PMI used to paint cat and other found bones with red, green or black latex paint and leave them in the woods for others to find. Also, once, me and a girlfriend rolled some fatties and left them in various appropriate books (Ain't Nobody's Buisness if You Do', stuffy 'Dangers of Marijuana' books etc.) at the library.
It's great fun but thankless.
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Sat, November 19, 2005 - 10:56 AMyesterday in one of the bathrooms at the art museum here, i left a little hemp fiber pouch containing non-prescription reading glasses i don't need anymore because i have prescription bifocals now. -
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Fri, December 2, 2005 - 1:52 PMfirstly thank you for the invite
yes i have left items purposely
i once wrote in the sand knowing full well others would read on returing 2 people were discusing it and we all a memorable afternoon together . n sea coast . i think its something everyone has done but forgotten . i would be interested in peoples sand writing or sand art.
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Sun, January 8, 2006 - 5:34 PMI'm a rockhound, and I have a "gravel bucket" of small agates and jasper that I sometimes spread out in the gravel in front of my house. I saw a little kid picking around in the gravel on the way home from school the other day (the gravel is safely off the street.) That was kind of cool. -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 2:28 PMthis morning i donated a book mentioned in the Recent Found Discards thread - The Fall of the Towers by Samuel Delany - to the bathroom in the complex that includes the computer room in which i now type. also i have finally begun to read another book mentioned in that thread: The Golden Helix by Theodor Sturgeon. -
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Sun, January 7, 2007 - 9:03 PMI leave books outside the 7/11 for the homeless to find : 6 copies of Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, five copies of Siddhartha, two copies of Plato's Republic, Kon Tiki, People of the Deer, so far......
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