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August 20, 2009

Google Maps Road Trip NPR FTW!

Dude in the back of a truck spotted on GMRT

Pete and I finished the first-ever virtual live-streaming broadcast cross-country road trip on August 18th. It took us 9 days and 40+ hours of driving on Google Maps to complete the trek. I got food poisoning from Burger King and Pete almost lost his mind, but we persevered and made it to Richmond, VA from LA.

Fancy us; we were interviewed by NPR Weekend edition for our "vacation." For the NPR audio interview go to http://bit.ly/GMRTNPRA. And for the NPR article see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111921898.

You can see some vids over at www.googlemapsroadtrip.com, read a blurb on wiki if your heart so desires, and check out a hand full of screenshots on flickr.

We'll be back up this Friday, August 21st at 2pm PST to take a tour of Richmond, and we're slated to take a trip up to Maine soon. Stay tuned.

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March 22, 2009

Hidden Paintchip Fancy Gift

Hidden Paintchip Fancy Gift - WINNER!

Christmas came a little early/late this year with this new exciting scavenger hunt game I unveiled at tenoversix for their LA fashion week show.  It’s called Hidden Paintchip Fancy Gift.

To prepare the game, I matched the color of select items around tenoversix’s courtyard to paint chips, like the ones you get at home depot. I then precisely cut the paint chips to match parts of the items I selected, thereby camouflaging the paint chip pieces.  When people arrived at the opening, they were instructed to go out into the courtyard and find the little paint chip bits.  When someone found one, they were instructed to bring it to me.  Then, I would redeem it for one of the gifts my mom gave me this past Christmas. The gifts have never been open, so it was a big surprise to use both.

If you would me to set up Hidden Paintchip Fancy Gift at one of your parties, please feel free to contact me at marc (at) ineedtostopsoon (dot) com, and we can work something out.

Hidden Paintchip Fancy Gift - Jason Schwartzman played and won!

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