DwarfinatorClock World Tour

[LeekClock]

Looking at Clockmap, it's clear to see that the dispersal of Clocks on earth is broad. We come from very different places. I was considering the ways we might show this...

Watching [imdb]Amelie[/imdb] again today, I remembered an idea we were considering a while ago in the Clock Crew: the traveling gnome prank. This prank features in the film: Amelie abducts her father's prized gnome and sends it around the world. In each destination the gnome is photographed, and a photograph is sent back to her father.

The DwarfinatorClock World Tour

Different to the prank, we would simply create a DwarfinatorClock gnome (by modifying a store-bought garden gnome) and send it around the world by registered mail, each of the recipients taking pictures and uploading them to a page on our site.

Eventually we will have constructed a gallery which offers an interesting peek into the multinational, multicultural nature of the Clock Crew...

How?

• I will create the gnome. I take the first picture wherever I am at the time (either Belgium or Germany).
• Willing participants sign up, listing their location.
• We carefully construct a list ordered by distance, so that people don't have to pay high p&p when they ship to the next farthest-away Clock.
• Before DwarfinatorClock is sent to you, you must pay a deposit to the Clock Crew paypal account, of $20, which is paid back upon confirmation that you've sent the gnome to the next person. Either a shipping receipt or a confirmation from the next person on the list will do.
• Not yet confirmed: When we return your $20 deposit, we also send an additional $5 to help with postage. Have to discuss this with our treasurer!

So what do you think?

[screwdriver_clock]

I like the idea, and I'm pretty sure I'd be up for it. Keep me on the list of "probably's"

[miracle fruit]

sounds awesome

[PirateClock]

coool send ones it's made its way across belgium send it to me and grey first!

[CeleriacClock]

Cool idea, I've seen that film about 3 times in french when it comes to the end of each half term we usually watch a film and thats usually it.

[ArcticSwirlClock]

I might do this.

[BinaryClock]

This sounds cool but I'd have to set up a paypal account.




< San Francisco, CA

[RobClock]

can i make my own DWARFINATOR and then take the pic, cause i dont have a paypal

[Pin Clock]

Hmm, I'd be a maybe for now. awesome Idea!

Who lives in africa anyway? I know that they can joke about locations, I remembered that Castle put his location off the map.

[miracle fruit]

btw whos the clockfriend from africa??

[camoclock is a great man]

Cool idea, but I won't participate (no paypal/no money)

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[Maltese]

no paypal, very little money

[Pin Clock]

I spy an Antarctica spot.


Also, I have plenty of money to spare, but, like others, no paypal.

[ChimeClock]

i could if i have paypal

[Topcatyo]

This sounds awesome, and I'd totally do it if I could.
Maybe I'll be in college by the time the gnome would reach me, I dunno.

[RobClock]

can i just make my own dwarfinator and then take the picture of him by the giant fiddle at the sydney dock?

[miracle fruit]

can i just make my own dwarfinator and then take the picture of him by the giant fiddle at the sydney dock?

no because it wont look the same (yours will probably look like shit, leek is a god at crafts)

[LeekClock]

I think it adds to the magic and the impact of the thing if it's the same object every time. To receive something tangible that people have held in their hands in all these different places, is more exciting, I think.

[AlbinoClock]

I'm sure I can manage $20 by the time it gets anywhere near the states. I'm in.

[CaramelAppleClock]

That is so incredibly swell but I don't have a paypal and it looks like i'm not getting one for another 2 and a half years