LOLtourism

I just wanted to sneak this one in before the scavenger hunting started. Next time, toilets and only toilets, I promise.

Launching: Photo Scavenger Hunt!

Inspired by Sohini's LOLnotes, I'd like to formally submit to the blog a parallel photocentric game for our amusement: a weekly(ish) photo scavenger hunt.

Susan and I have put together a working list for future assignments, and the plan is to announce one each Monday. Then we all would have a week to find that photo, in our own archives or around town. All are meant to show mundane stuff so hopefully this is doable and fun. And by focusing each week on want topic while spreading them out over the months, we should have some automatic blog content without much creativity required!

Organized by category, this list so far includes:

Household
bathrooms/toilet
kitchen/stovetop
room decor
laundry

Food
breakfast
streetfood
dinner
"American" food
local fast food
American fast food chain
bars/clubs/nightlife
desserts

Transport
cabs
buses
motorbikes
other

Fashion
hair styles
footware

Scenery
local animals
neighborhood shop
mall

Pop Culture & Advertisements
celebrity endorsements
white for brown ads
education campaigns
romance
pirated dvds
other imitations (I'm thinking of the fake apple store, fake best buy, etc )

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Groundrules
In my mind at least, this is in no way supposed to be a performance of fieldwork suffering, nor even should these photos necessarily be representative of our respective fieldsites, whatever that would look like. Rather, I think they should be just the opposite. That is, since this evolving into a nice little intimate space for us (and our loyal reader Andrea -- anyone else out there I don't know about?) I would like to see just what your lives are like, including the indulgences and privileges we all share in different ways, thereby dispelling those images of huts and loneliness once and for all. Of course, if anyone wants to elaborate on these subtleties and differences in a longer discussion or disclaimer with their photo, that would be welcome as well.

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First up (and the sick inspiration for this whole thing): TOILET-SCAPES!!!!


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Sidenote for Colin
This task might seem especially ill-fitting for your own fieldwork, but I would like to disagree in advance, particularly if you can recruit the participation of one special somebody to populate your photos : )

Typical

I iz on the couch, waiting for mies contacts.

Sneak attack sherd incisions!

c.f. LOLFieldnotes: i can haz fieldwork?

i iz in ur bisness, gettin alls ur gud quotes

LAUNCHING: LOL Fieldnotes

Here's to sharing our experiences--joys, aggravations, minor and major victories--through the medium of LOL (c.f. Urban Dictionary 2010; LOLCats 2010).

From Hope & Power, with Love

The starting point.