Since 2000, glass artist Josh Simpson's Infinity Project has been donating small, glass globes to people who agree to hide them in obscure places where, Simpson hopes, they'll later be discovered by perplexed anthropologists (and other curious people). People interested in participating propose a site; if selected, Simpson sends them two of the marble-sized globes, one to place on location and one to keep for themselves.
More than 1,600 have been placed so far. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute researchers placed several planets undersea during a dive. Others have been placed at mountain peaks, plane-crash sites, inside antique incense burners at museums, and at one of Charles Linburgh's boyhood homes. See the site for a scrapbook and a proposal form (which, in the spirit of the project, Simpson makes you search for).
[via The Morning News]
Posted by johndanseven at November 13, 2005 01:38 PM