meganparadox

Great idea, thank you! I haven't been geocaching for a while now so I'm forgetting I can do stuff like this. I'm excited to get back in the game while doing this.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Of course participation would be optional. I would think that there would be a good number of people who would be interested by some weird, thought provoking questions put in a cache among a bunch of plastic toys. I would also make small print outs explaining the project with my e-mail for anyone interested. And the whole point of crowdsourcing is for people to get involved by performing "micro tasks;" very little effort involved. You're right about the disposable camera, but I've come across a few caches that still have them. I'm 21 and they're certainly not foreign to me, I'm guessing anyone too young to know what it is would probably be with a parent who did anyway. But the smartphone thing is a good idea-- I could just guide them to shoot me an e-mail with a photo or clip if they'd be interested. I know geocaching and art projects don't go really hand in hand together, thanks for your opinions!

Hey guys, I'm in film school right now and working on a project created entirely by crowdsourcing, AKA a film project that is created entirely or mostly from public participation. In short, I'm interested in doing a project that involves participation from geocachers to go into the final project. Basically, the concept would involve me hiding geocaches (or putting notes in existing ones) with questions on them for whoever finds the cache to write an answer to. The questions ultimately depend on what the overall concept for the project would be (ideas are the notion of "nature 2.0"/importance of nature and how it meshes with new technology or simply nostalgia, memory, childhood, natural places lost over time, etc.) I would also put a disposable camera in a few caches, encouraging finders to take a photo and write a note. I would need no further contact information unless the participant is interested in seeing the finished project or interested in completing more micro-tasks, like filming short video clips, for the film after the initial geocache find. I'm interested in seeing what the geocaching community thinks about this idea and how many people would be willing to participate, hypothetically for now. On a larger scale and with more time, this could even expand to more than my local area if enough people are into the idea. Feedback would be much appreciated!

I found a box that I thought could be the cache. It was behind a grocery store and had about six packages of strawberries, a bag of oranges, and a notebook in it. I opened the notebook to realize that it belonged to a homeless man aspiring to be a rapper. I felt kinda bad and left immediately... but he had some pretty good raps, haha.