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Type onto a roll of Mohawk Superfine paper, 2 inches in width, every seven-letter word in English (24,029 words), using an IBM Selectric Model 71 typewriter. List of words complied by students in the math department at the University of Toronto; typewriter purchased at a yard sale in the fall of 2000 in "as is condition"; type ball capable of typing no more than seven characters in a line.
Status: Complete
Date started: 9/22/2009
Date finished: 5/2/2010
Photograph in one session every step of my route from home to studio using a Cannon Powershot SD800 IS Digital Elph and a 2 gigabyte memory card. Distance between my home and my studio, according to Google Maps, is 3.6 miles, resulting in 7,480 steps. Images displayed on a TV in video format using Boinx iStopMotion and iDVD software, created on a PowerBook G4.
Status: Complete
Date started: Walk - 10/11/2009
Date finished: Video - 10/20/2009
Call every phone number listed on Rolodex cards found on Upsal Avenue in Philadelphia, summer 2009, using a personal cell phone. Update contact information, as appropriate, and enter information onto forms. Record the telephone conversation with a digital video camera and digital audio recorder and edit the video and audio to exclude personal information in compliance with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's wiretapping law, covered under 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5703 Title 18, Part II, Article F, Chapter 57, Subchapter B.
Status: Complete
Date started: 2/3/2010
Date finished: 4/30/2010
Walk counter-clockwise around the perimeter of City Hall in Philadelphia once daily for during the month of April. Document action with a digital audio recording device and record results - date, time, weather, accepts, denys, interactions, thoughts - onto individual folios of Mohawk Superfine paper using an Olivettie Lettera 25 typewriter.
Status: Complete
Date started: 4/1/2010
Date finished: 4/30/2010
Copy all notations by an unknown owner of J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country and Foe onto tracing paper using a Micron 02 pen. Books found on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia, summer 2009.
Status: In the Heart of the Country complete
Foe complete
Date started: 9/13/2009
Date finished:
In the Heart of the Country - 10/10/2009
Foe - 12/12/2009
Stitch in straight lines 500 yards of 100% white cotton no. 40 quilting thread onto 1 square yard of cotton organdy.
Status: Complete
Date started: 9/24/2009
Date finished: 10/18/2009
Cut into 3 x 25 inch strips two pieces of 25 x 38 inch Neenah's Eames Architectural paper; accordion fold into 3/8 inch sections; refold and piece together to create forms resembling honeycombs.
Status: Complete
Date started: 9/12/2009
Date finished: 10/23/2009