I’m thinking about how I do what I do and was going to launch into what I’m already learning from this project, but then realised that there’s something that should come first, because it’s the reason I’m doing it this way in the first place. I try to work on a cycle of “Have an…
On Friday, I gave out three moleskine notebooks, labelled with their intended destination and including a set of instructions from the original post over here. Each journal also comes in a stamped addressed jiffy bag so that they can come back to me at the end of the month. They went to two people who…
I just bought a 1inch to 55miles map of the USA for plotting out the physical locations of my "safety net" – yes I shall also be using Google Maps to show things online, but I always like to get a nice analogue feel for what I'm doing. I also purchased three empty, plain moleskine…
I think I’ve come up with a new title for this project and another way of looking at it’s theme. It just came to me after writing about the journals – I was thinking perhaps of putting something on the front like “Please look after this journal and help it get to its destination” And…
As I mentioned when talking about racing earlier, I'm going to run a prototype version in the UK starting next week. Just to see how it works really. I will be giving out 3 empty journals/notebooks in stamped self-addressed jiffy bag with intended "final" destinations of Edinburgh, Liverpool and Penzance This is a first draft…
There's a nice little side exhibit at Tate Britain on Turner's use of Colour and Line. It includes this descriptive panel which caught my eye in relation to this project. Some thoughts: What was tourism like in the early 19th Century? How did these travels work? The story of the journey itself is secondary to…
For the 2010 trip In my one-man social media empire bag this year I had: My trusty, but aging, Nokia N95 and Asus eeepc 1000H Loaned Canon 500D, Nokia N900, Nokia 3G Booklet While away, I bought a US sim card with “unlimited” data from T-mobile for one month. Mike Oh in Boston loaned me…
I'm going to take a look at what was required to do the first trip. The idea of using these experiences to put a value on the power of my social capital is becoming more and more interesting to me. I think this is one way into it. Lets group things under the following headings:…
Thanks to a helpful man from the University and his blow torch and to Brian and his salt-sprinkling skills, the Centre will be open at least today, tomorrow and Wednesday this week We’re happy to welcome anyone who’s unexpectedly in town and stuck because of the snow. If you need somewhere to touch down, plug…
Today after Tuttle, we watched Brazil, the Terry Gilliam film that contains a cameo from Robert De Niro as Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer and Freelance Subversive who gave our club its name. I’ve already said that I will start showing classic road movies in the New Year in the run up to Tuttle2Texas2, but I’d…