Every inch of the real world already belongs to somebody. Every field, every beach, every stretch of desert nobody has ever walked across — spoken for, long before you turned up. There is none of it left. That is the absurd fact this is built on.
So here is a second one, and this one is still going: a hundred million squares of map, and you can have one for nothing. Put a picture on a square and it is yours. A house, a hometown, a band, a grave, a cat. You keep it by turning up — nobody else can claim it while its shield holds, and when the shield lapses somebody will. Or pay $2.00 to protect one, and then nobody ever can.
It is a project, not a shop. Somewhere between a stamp album, a time capsule and the Million Dollar Homepage. What ends up here is whatever strangers thought was worth a picture and coming back for — which turns out to be a fairly good record of a moment. And it sustains itself: the clock opens at 100 days, every square anybody protects adds 3.65 more, and when it reaches zero the map goes dark.
You can open this again from the panel, under “More about this”.
This site will live for:
What this is