Work

Title

i left this for you to read

Author

Tim Devin

Date

2008-9

Description

"Between August 2008 and October 2009, we printed 40 issues of i left this here for you to read. There were only 50 copies of each issue total, and never reprinted any issues. We then left these in public places (such as on part benches, on buses, in airports and dentists' offices…) for anyone to take–free of charge. So far, we've left our magazines in about 75 cities in the US and in Canada.

We used to automatically include anything we received, as long as it fits into the following guidelines:

- Written pieces--as long as they were no longer than 400 words.
- Images--as long as they were black and white (aka 'gray scale').
- Physical objects--as long as they were flat, or very thin, and smaller than 8 ½'' x 5 ½''. They had to be able to fit into a small envelope, or a two-inch square plastic bag; or had be able to be stapled or taped to a page. All objects had to be nontoxic, and legal. (Note: all people submitting physical objects had to mail us 50 copies of said object. Or 50 different ones.)

All contributors received 2 copies of the issue that their material appears in. They also had their name listed on our website (unless they didn't want their name listed on their website for some reason)."

URL

timdevin.com/ileftthishereforyoutoread.html

Medium

Magazine

Edition

50

Technology

Blog

Keywords

access, authorship, collaboration, community, context, distribution, offline, public space

Added

ID

1825