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Shad0
I Have No Life
Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 2180 Location: Southern California, USA
[OT/INFO] Avant Game in Los Angeles on March 3rd That's right: One of the PMs, our very own Jane McGonigal (a.k.a. Dana), is taking a brief break from her extensive Northern California lecture circuit to come down to Southern California and run a game on Thursday evening, March 3, 2005, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Beekeepers are invited! The details:
Jane wrote:
I'm coming down to LA next month to do an art game event for the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, and I thought you might want to come play with me.
It's going to be Thursday evening at a special downtown LA MoCA event for a new art/technology journal called Vectors... the event is 7 - 10 PM, and my partner-in-crime Julian Bleecker and I are going to be running a series of stealth missions in and around the grounds. It's a high-tech adventure... people will be stalking a mobile 802.11b transmitter (a guy with his own little island internet in his backpack!) with wi-fi enabled laptops, rooting around files on his server, and taking and uploading digital photos... we provide all the equipment. Each mission takes 15 minutes, people can go more than once if they want... also, there will be other new media installations, a 1-hour lecture, food and drink, that sort of thing. It's free as far as I know!
I'd love to have your participation and feedback; it's definitely more of an art game than an ARG-game, but hopefully fun and mischevious enough to be worth your while. And I know the for sure that the game would be better for your playing it!
I'm gonna post this exchange, too, just because it gave me the biggest laugh I've had in weeks:
Shad0 wrote:
(So is the first part of the game to figure out on which Thursday next month it will occur? )
Jane wrote:
whoops! lol. ummm yes it's a puzzle. and the solution is:
beyond
upon
above
Thursday March 3
in
beside
....
If that doesn't remind you why you want to be there, I don't know what would.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:02 pm
darkmoonz
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Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 330 Location: Gainesville, FL
yet another reason i want to move out to california... and march 3rd's my birthday, too... (:
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:36 am
WhiteGulls
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Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 331 Location: Portland
Dammant! Being in highschool strikes again! I'd love to go to this - sounds really really fun, but I -can't-! Need to move one state down... everything cool happens there.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:21 am
Ranger D
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Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 522 Location: Nor Cal
Wow, this sounds like a lot of fun! Especially the high-tech wireless angle.... Curse my inflexible full time job!
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:56 pm
janemcg
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Berkeley, CA
wow, and more play Hey Shad0, thanks for posting this!!
It truly will be a better game by far to have a few of you guys doing the Place Storming. Show 'em how it's done!
and if the LA MoCA game goes well, hopefully there will be some more, e.g. in NYC and SF. Ranger D is definitely going to do some Wi-Fi stalking here in SF, I can tell!
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:02 pm
HitsHerMark
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Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1521 Location: Austin, TX
So very there!
Man, I wish I could go to the GDC this year...
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:02 pm
thebruce
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Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
man I wish I could fly wherever I want whenever I want with no cost whatsoever!
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:22 pm
LouMac
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Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 191 Location: Rhode Island
Rumor has it that Jane will also be coming to The Biggest Littlest State in the Union (Rhode Island) in late March/early April to present at Brown University. I'm going to do my best to be there. I'll post more details as I get them.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:46 pm
Phaedra
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Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 4033 Location: Here, obviously
<sigh>
And yet, still no love for the Midwest.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:51 pm
weephun
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Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 908 Location: Fuquay Varina, NC
Yah,
Try living in Idaho .....
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:57 pm
Clayfoot
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Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 785 Location: Warner Robins, Georgia, USA
Phaedra wrote:
<sigh>
And yet, still no love for the Midwest.
It's 'cause you midwesterners are dodging your civic duty to appear regularly on XBox Live! <accusatory look>
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:19 pm
Phaedra
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Clayfoot wrote:
Phaedra wrote:
<sigh>
And yet, still no love for the Midwest.
It's 'cause you midwesterners are dodging your civic duty to appear regularly on XBox Live! <accusatory look>
I'll be back. Soon. I hope.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:27 pm
krystyn
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Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
Clayfoot wrote:
It's 'cause you midwesterners are dodging your civic duty to appear regularly on XBox Live! <accusatory look>
Excuse me?
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:36 pm
Clayfoot
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Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 785 Location: Warner Robins, Georgia, USA
krystyn wrote:
Clayfoot wrote:
It's 'cause you midwesterners are dodging your civic duty to appear regularly on XBox Live! <accusatory look>
Excuse me?
With certain noteworthy exceptions, of course.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:47 pm
Anton P. Nym
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 550 Location: London, Canada
Phaedra wrote:
And yet, still no love for the Midwest.
Like, cry me a river, eh? Us hosers didn't even get axons, let alone a training event, eh?
-- Steve points out that we're used to being left out in the cold. Or maybe we're used to the cold.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:52 pm
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