nopurchaseisthenecessary

this project is an experiment in tinkering with a found-material's exchange-value.
it is a partner project to SCRAPCYCLE , and is supported by ANALOGOUS .
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last halloween, 100 buttons (like this: ) were distributed on the west side of kent avenue between north 3rd street and south 2nd street in williamsburg. this stretch of five short blocks is indicated by the orange line in the map below:
of these 100, five select buttons were worth $20 (US dollars) each. these five winning buttons were indicated by a color and a number:
647924-pink
647927-red
647934-purple
647937-orange
647947-blue
and looked like this:
these buttons were found by
rama:
kyle:
and dlisah:
------------------------> two additional (unannounced) winning items were hidden as well.
among the buttons:
- a GREEN MILK TAB WITH AN ORANGE STICKER and
- a WHITE BREAD TAB WITH CRAYON MARKS    were left to be found.
these items are worth FIFTY DOLLARS EACH and still have not been turned in.
if you found a winning item and would like to redeem it for cash, please send a myspace message to this account or an email to [email protected] with
- your name
- your email address
- a description of the item you found OR a picture of the item
and we will respond to set up a time to buy the item from you.
**note: items presented as winning items must match our records in entirety in order to be eligible for cash-trade. we reserve the right to call you a cheater.
for more information on ANALOGOUS , and it's supported projects, go here .
no purchase necessary / void where prohibited / blahblhastufftheywrite / buttons presented as winning buttons must match our records in entirety and be traded in for the award stuffs / plus if you win you have to let us take your picture so the people believe us / we reserve the right to call you a cheater and not give you the stuff / we have no idea where the winning buttons are so truth serums won't work on us / the only person who knows information about the winning buttons thought she was doing a psychology experiment / she and members of analogous are disqualified from participating in the contest / also: we have pictures of all 100 buttons so don't be cheaters / plus everyone's a winner cause you get a handmade thingamajig
                                                                                      ??BUTWHY???