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About the Project
- Find The Bottles
- Our mission is to give the experience of removing the instantaneous conversation we have become so reliant on in our society, and reverting to the slow messaging and mysterious conversation that is lost with modern communication. Despite asking for replies via the internet, the messages are sent out anonymously with no knowledge of who will find them or where they will end up.
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I found a bottle near Harvard Square (in Cambridge, MA, if it's not just confined to that area), under an archway between the Barker Center and the Harvard T stop. It said,
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Plato
Hmm. I think this is mostly true, but at any given time, not everyone will be in a hard or bad situation. Some people's lives just magically work out well for periods of time. But one should always be kind, whether or not this is the case.
Anyway, should I redeploy the bottle elsewhere, or keep it? It now resides on the MIT campus.
I actually found two of your bottles (both close to the bus stops at TUFTS University). To be honest, I was a little bit skeptical about opening them up at first (I suppose it's the media's fault for making people more paranoid nowadays), but I decided to take the chance anyways.
And the messages reminded me of some fond memories I've had. The first bottle I picked up said "Picture yourself at the ocean". I've had some fond memories at the ocean/beach. I started thinking back to a time I brought my girlfriend (at the time) to the beach for a picnic date (we went kayaking afterwards).
Then I thought back to a time in high school where my Lit. Teacher secretly planned a visit to the beach (she told us two days ahead of time, but it was a secret to the rest of the faculty haha). That was THE BEST academic class time I've ever had. We didn't learn anything, just have fun, ate lunch, and sunbathed.
The second bottle I got had the message "Unicorns exist. They do". Well I personally don't believe they exist, but after reading the message, I just began to ponder "Well I believe that aliens exist, so why not horses with horns...they could exist someplace else, maybe a different dimension and they use their horn to open the gateways to travel through the different dimensions, but not necessarily on Earth.". And then the other thought I had about unicorns was a comic I read in yesterday's Boston Globe: http://comics.com/pickles/2010-04-25/
-Marco
Found one near the whole foods by symphony hall. The note was wet and unreadable, so it didn't change my day. But I recycled your bottle, so you're welcome.
Found a bottle at downtown crossing, red line braintree platform. I think alternate reality art projects like this are awesome so it made my commute much more enjoyable than normal.
here is a photo I took with my phone: is.gd/bIRtO
Am I afraid of my identity? I honestly couldn't tell you. I guess everyone has issues coming to terms with who they are at some point in their life.
I found a bottle at the SMFA. It made my day to have this intimate moment in the middle of a staircase. The message acted as an affirmation, which was really nice as I sometimes wonder if I'm doing anything right.
I found a bottle near the fenway tucked away in someone's garden I happened to be passing by. My boyfriend and I had just broke up and this is the message I found:
"You attract people you need around you. Trust that, the universe is working you protect you. Let it."
Im pretty sure this was fate. Than you.
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