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• ALMT-SS: Today is Obscura Day #obscuraday

  March 20th, 2010

  On ALMT-Social Saturdays I write about Social Networking.

  
  Organized by Atlas Obscura

  What strangeness is lurking in your backyard? That’s the question that Obscura Day is asking.

  For one day only, 80 curious events are happening in 20 countries by at least 4,000 people.  Will you be one of them?

  Their website is an up-to-date wiki-style page with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Blog updates about Obscura Day participants. So, even you can’t get out you can see what weirdness is happening world-wide. Right now Gadling.com is reporting:

  In San Francisco, a tour will be visiting the Musee Mecanique, a museum devoted to antique coin operated carnival games. In Detroit, the tour will bring visitors to the Heidelberg Project, and “outsider art” project made from found objects. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, the tour will bring visitors inside the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, a 170-year-old subway tunnel Gadling visited last year. Those living outside the U.S. will find plenty to do as well, with events taking place from Canada to Iceland to Japan.

  Below is the list of cities that have organized tours this year, but if your hometown isn’t listed you can Email them to organize a future event.

  

  As for me, all my backyard had to offer was a fresh spring snow. Strange.

  

  March 20th,2010 Blogging, Social Saturdays | Sections: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, Atlas Obscura, Blog, Brooklyn, Detroit, facebook, Flickr, Gadling, Heidelberg Project, March 20, Musee Mecanique, Obscura Day, San Francisco, twitter | No Comments