Ann Arbor, Disseminated

As promised, a final update:

The photos have been filtered (by composition and success of exposure–not necessarily by content) and roughly 50 have been turned into pre-stamped Postcards of Ann Arbor. Given the choice between setting up a roadside postcard kiosk and something other, we’ve gone with the something other.

By balloon, by train, by semi-trailer and by river current these neatly-wrapped images and residents of Ann Arbor have been released into the wild–hopefully to be discovered and used by the residents of some other (potentially faraway) city, town or burb.

Finally, and again, sincere thanks to everyone who participated and/or checked out this blog. We merely set up some cameras. The photographic booty is yours.

Take care.

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Revealed, Site 1

The people’s photos have been uploaded (in no particular order):

Site 1 – Fleetwood Diner

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Revealed, Site 2

Site 2 – Nichol’s Arboretum

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Revealed, Site 3

Site 3 – University of Michigan Central Campus Plaza

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Revealed, Site 4

Site 4 – Monahan’s Seafood Market, Kerrytown

Plans are in the works for your street-level interpretation of these sites. To spread is to stimulate; we have chosen fifty of these photos and are in the process of converting them to A2 postcards.

U-Hauls, blue-blood water bottles, red balloons and freight trains will be involved.

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Hold Tight

The cameras collected, the photos processed, we are considering different ways to return the participants’ collective work to them.

Stand by. A few days at most.

A taste:

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Willkommen

Welcome to the blog for the saycheeseannarbor experiment (say cheese, Ann Arbor). It is here that we, the experimenters, will post the photos taken from our various cameras anchored around several mobile and immobile points in Ann Arbor. If you’ve arrived at this site, firstly, thanks. We’re glad that you’ve stumbled upon one of our primitive installations and are seriously excited to see what you’ve captured.

Essentially, the initial motivation for this has been to find alternative ways of interpreting the city at large. Our sites have been chosen to be deliberately diverse, including the picturesque, the dilapidated, the crowded, the sparse, the urban and the suburban. That said, it’s also very important that we have no intention of what the content of these photos will be, nor are we biased toward them beyond the fact that they may offer distinctly different views of Ann Arbor.

We don’t, however, claim that this is an original or revolutionary idea–we’re sure it has been done, and probably done better. The ways that, within our own usual routine and environment, an individual can discover often-overlooked details is infinitely more interesting than a pursuit of pure originality.

And contrary to the title of this post, this is not a German endeavor.

Looking forward.

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