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Cube distance contest

How far can your cube go? Your cube is in a contest with 9 other cubes to go the furthest distance from the Art Institute by January 31, 2010. You may pass your cube on to anyone who can help, and your cube can travel by any available method. Document its travels along the way with words and photos (making sure something is identifiable in the background). Your contribution may appear in a special display at the Art Institute.

#1 Kathleen King completed the task.

Hello AIC, i found cube#448 outside the Gallery Cafe on North Ave. in Chicago. it will travel with me to south Florida in January 6 to 24, 2010 where it's whereabouts will be photo doc'ed. i am currently thinking of where i can send it to in the meantime. -Kat

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#2 Kathleen King commented on 12/9/2009

The red cube#448 is on it's way to Japan! Artists Oi Sawa and Tazuko Fujii will receive the cube, document it's stay with them in Toyko and send it back to me in Chicago. i hope it gets back before the Jan 31st deadline!

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#3 Kathleen King commented on 12/9/2009

Here is the cube just before sealing the packing and sending it to the post office. Then it's off to Tokyo!

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#4 Zack commented on 12/9/2009

so long cube!

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#5 Kathleen King commented on 12/9/2009

i just thought Oi and Tazuko's response to my request should be posted.

Dear Kathleen,

We could understand your urban project and we will be able to join your request if you can send this red cube
as soon as possible, for it is not so good season to be able to receive soon.

It is ”A YEAR -END GIFT" season now in Japan on December .
I, Oi can take digital photo of Tazuko with the red cube #448 in our studio or outside our home in Tokyo and
send back to you soon after taking photo if you can send this cube until Dec.20.

We pray the success of this art project and the safe trip of the red cube#448.

best regards,
Tazuko and Oi

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#6 Kathleen King commented on 12/10/2009

Cube#448 is really on it's way to Japan! See tracking info below.
(Not all tracking info provided here.)
Guaranteed Delivery Date: December 14, 2009
Class: Express Mail International®
Status: Processed through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through and left our CHICAGO, IL 60680 facility on December 9, 2009. The item is currently in transit to the destination. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

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#7 Kathleen commented on 12/11/2009

last tracking update: Guaranteed Delivery Date: December 14, 2009
Class: Express Mail International®
Status: International Dispatch

Your item left the United States from ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS) at 10:13 AM on December 10, 2009. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

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#8 Kathleen King commented on 12/11/2009

Season's Greetings from cube#448. (photo taken before it's trip to Tokyo. Here is Oi Sawa and Tazuko Fujii's latest communication:
Dear Kathleen,

O.K, We will wait the special visitor safe named red cube #448 .
We hope his safety travel to our home and we will send it back to you as soon as using an express mail .

I, Oi's students had tried to do almost same project four years ago.
Their thinking was the fashion communication by big apron dress.
Their apron dress had traveled from HOKKAIDOH ( north Japan) to KYUSYU(south Japan) and the people who had received it had written massage on it with the photo of cooking foods to use this apron dress Oi remember this project.

See you next year in Onward Gallery!

best regard,

Tazuko and OI

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#9 Kathleen King commented on 12/12/2009

Here's the tracking update for 12/12/'09 re: cube#448 journey to Tokyo: Guaranteed Delivery Date: December 14, 2009
Class: Express Mail International®
Status: International Dispatch

Your item left the United States from ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS) at 10:13 AM on December 10, 2009. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

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#10 Kathleen King commented on 12/13/2009

Tracking update: 12/13/'09:
Guaranteed Delivery Date: December 14, 2009
Class: Express Mail International®
Status: Into Foreign Customs

Your item is being processed by customs in JAPAN. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

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#11 Kathleen King commented on 12/13/2009

This project is now linked to a gallery in New York City:
Hello Tazuko, Oi, and Kat,
I had our webmaster put the information about your Red Cube Project on the HOME page of the Viridian website: www.viridianartists.com
with a link. Take a look.
It's a fun project.
Susan

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#12 Kathleen King commented on 12/14/2009

Dear Kathleen,

" Red cube #448" has come here last night safely !

I, Oi have just come back from Univ. now and I will take picture this afternoon
and we hope that your red cube #448 will start his travel to your home tomorrow.
We hope you will meet him at the end of this week and I will send the digital pictures
as soon as possible , for I have to go out this evening and tomorrow.

This is short note about the red cube coming.

best regard,
Tazuko and Oi

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#13 Kathleen King commented on 12/14/2009

Oi and Tazuko have taken pictures of the cube#448 in Tokyo,Japan! See Oi's message below:
Dear Kathleen,

I, Oi had taken pictures in front of our garden and the studio in our home in Kodaira City now.
We are sorry we have no time to bring it to the special place where is " This is Tokyo " to take photos.

Tazuko, my mother (born in 1922) told me " Red cube will love our garden, for the flowers of SASANKA( Japanese Camellia ) are full bloom now in our garden.

I will bring it to take picture with SASANKA flowers."

I will send you three pictures of Red cube#445 with Tazuko.

We are sorry we can not do more , for time fly very fast this month for us.

best regards,
Tazuko and Oi

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#14 Kathleen King commented on 12/14/2009

Here is a picture of Tazuko in her studio with the cube#448:

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#15 Kathleen King commented on 12/14/2009

This is the 3rd picture of Tazuko with the cube#448, in Oi and Tazuko's garden. Now they will pack the cube back up and ship it back to Chicago!

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#16 Claudia commented on 12/14/2009

This is so wonderful, and what a beautiful garden!

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#17 andrew commented on 12/16/2009

i found this so inspiring. very nicely done!

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#18 Kathleen King commented on 12/17/2009

Here is Oi Sawa's message as of 12/17/09:

Dear Kathleen,

I have just come back from Post office near our home.
The Red Cube #448 has just started to travel to go back your home.

I took more pictures of red cube before going post office but I can not send these now,for
I will go out soon after sending this e-mail.
I hope I will send them tomorrow afternoon.

This is my short note about the traveling to go back to your home of red cube#448.

best regard,
Oi SAWA

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#19 Kathleen King commented on 12/17/2009

I've started tracking cube#448's trip back to Chicago.

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#20 Jay commented on 12/17/2009

So cool

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#21 Carrie H commented on 12/18/2009

What a fun jaunt for the cube - seems there may be time for it to take a New Year's trip as well!

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#22 Kathleen King commented on 12/19/2009

The cube WILL be going to South Florida! Here's the little cube#448 at
Oi Sawa and Tazuko Fujii's home in Tokyo before they shipped it back to Chicago.

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#23 Kathleen King commented on 12/19/2009

...and here is the cube#448 on Tazuko and Oi's street in Tokyo.

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#24 Kathleen King commented on 12/19/2009

Having never been in South Florida, cube#448 day dreams about being there. When it it actually gets there - it's little plastic mind will be blown away, that is, if it has a mind to begin with!

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#25 Kathleen King commented on 12/20/2009

The following photo is of cube #448 at the Post Office near the Sawa-Fujii home, and, here's a note from Tazuko and Oi as of 12/19/09:
Greeting Kathleen,

I am sorry I had no time to send other photos soon.
I will send these now.
We are very glad if you like these.
These are the travel of your red cube # 448 in our small town in Tokyo.

Have a nice day.

with love,
Tazuko and Oi

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#26 Kathleen King commented on 12/20/2009

...and,here is another photo of cube#448 at the post office in Kodaira City (fyi, for people in the US, a district WITHIN the greater city of Tokyo.

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#27 Kathleen King commented on 12/23/2009

It's.....

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#28 Kathleen King commented on 12/23/2009

...baaaaack!!!

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#29 Kathleen King commented on 12/23/2009

Cube#448 is home now. It's not a good time to be sending it off again (due to the congested mail system) so it will spend the holidays
in Chicago.

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#30 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

Since cube 448 is here for the holidays,it's hitting a couple of Chicago's landmark locations...

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#31 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

... it went to the Drake Hotel for high tea at 3...

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#32 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

...and it took in some of the festive decorations in the Drake's main lobby.

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#33 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

Then cube 448 is off to the Oriental/Ford Theater for the Addams Family musical!

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#34 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

The cube waits in the theater lobby before the show starts. Unfortunately, no photos may be taken in the theater, darn it!

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#35 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

Okay! The show's starting soon. Let's hope the "A" cast is "on" for tonight's performance!

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#36 Kathleen King commented on 12/26/2009

Just a little note that the last 6 photos were taken on Dec.23rd.

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#37 Claudia commented on 12/27/2009

that cube has had a fantastic December - wish I could've tagged along on all of its adventures!

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#38 Kathleen King commented on 12/27/2009

Yes, Claudia, Dec'09 for cube#448 has been very good! Jan'10 should be exciting as well. Here's the cube with the Addams Family playbill, the actors were wonderful, i (and maybe, the cube) feel that special kudos go to the set designers and staff, because, as good as the actors were that night,the play would not have been as enchanting if the set design had not met the actors' efforts.

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#39 John Paramadilok commented on 12/29/2009

I have some friends in New Zealand, let me know if you want the box to go there. Distance: 7,111.54 (NM) / 8,185.56 (MI) / 13,170.56 (KM), from ICAO:KORD to ICAO:NZAA

I may also be able to hook up McMurdo Station in Antarctica but it requires a lot of logistics, especially if you want to have it down there before winter. Distance: 8,038.79 (NM) / 9,252.86 (MI) / 14,887.84 (KM), from ICAO:KORD to ICAO:NZPG

Maybe you should contact NASA's public affairs office and see if one of the scientists can take it up to space!

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#40 May DeViney commented on 12/31/2009

Cube #448 will be better traveled than most of us! It is invited to Boston anytime it wants.

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#41 Kathleen King commented on 1/3/2010

Wow, what an interesting proposal: cube#448 possibly traveling to New Zealand, Antarctica or outer space (as a long shot)! Well, here are the time constraints, John: the cube has to have arrived at the it's furthest distance by Jan 31st 2010. If you or your friends would commit to photo documenting cube 448's travels and send it back to Chicago after Jan 31st this could work! Just give me the address. In any case John, May and everyone Happry New year and many more to come

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#42 Kathleen King commented on 1/3/2010

Happy New Year from cube#448! If the travel plans don't work out as proposed above- it will go to South Florida!

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#43 Vernita Nemec commented on 1/3/2010

too bad the deadline is in January for in February I will be in Mexico & could take it there... ah, well, its still traveled further than me already!
Happy New Year!

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#44 Kathleen King commented on 1/4/2010

I have taken John's other suggestion and sent an e-mail to NASA requesting that cube#448 be sent into outer space (or at least into a high altitude of weightlessness), we'll see if they respond...

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#45 Kathleen King commented on 1/11/2010

Cube#448 made it to Deerfield Beach, South Florida! It's cold now, but the pool is heated. (The picture was taken Jan 7th- before the real cold weather hit!)

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#46 Kathleen King commented on 1/13/2010

It's Jan.13th-Here's the cube#448 with some pool side friends.

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#47 Kathleen King commented on 1/16/2010

First real decent day after the cold snap! Cube#448 relaxes at Deerfield Beach in South Florida.

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#48 Kathleen King commented on 1/16/2010

Sometimes too much sun can be harmful-little cube 448 moves to the shade for a while.

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#49 Kathleen King commented on 1/16/2010

After making a donation to a charity to help the nation of Haiti, cube 448 reflects on it's good fortune while looking out at the Atlantic Ocean.

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#50 Brad Bretz commented on 1/19/2010

WOW, a very impressive journey that your cube has taken! Some fun photos.

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#51 Kathleen King commented on 1/19/2010

Yes!, impressive so far AND i did get this response from NASA 's pr
office re: my request to send cube #448 into space:

Kathleen,

Thank you for contacting NASA Science, and what an interesting project. I suggest directing you question to NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate:

Public Communications Office
NASA Headquarters
Suite 5K39
Washington, DC 20546-0001
(202) 358-0001 (Office)
(202) 358-4338 (Fax)
[email protected]



You might also try contacting on of NASA’s international partners: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/partners.html.

Good luck!

Content Manager

NASA Science

http://NASAScience.nasa.gov

I have contacted NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, let's see what happens- but the time is running short and the Jan 31st deadline is coming up fast!

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#52 Zack commented on 1/20/2010

Kathleen, a cube in space! That'd be so cool!!

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#53 Cube Wrangler commented on 1/20/2010

Well, a space journey might not make the 1/31 deadline, but it would still be a wonderful story to share. Fingers crossed, and thank you for the update!

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#54 Kathleen King commented on 1/20/2010

Guys, waiting to hear from NASA Space Operations, in the meantime...
what's this?

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#55 Kathleen King commented on 1/20/2010

We are at the Boca Raton Art Museum.

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#56 Kathleen King commented on 1/20/2010

WOW!

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#57 Kathleen King commented on 1/20/2010

Little cube#448 strikes a pose with this impressive piece by Javier Marin.

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#58 Kathleen King commented on 1/24/2010

Still no further word from NASA, so the cube finds it's way to Gulfstream Race Track.

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#59 Kathleen King commented on 1/24/2010

Cube 448 finds something appealing about this concession stand.

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#60 Kathleen King commented on 1/24/2010

Cube 448 sez: Don't forget to "box" your exacta and trifecta wagers!

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#61 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

Still, no word from NASA. Cube 448 waits for a booth at Hamburger Heaven (where the elite meet) in Palm Beach.

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#62 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

It's lunch time so,there is a little wait time for cube 448!

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#63 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

The hamburgers here are the BEST (especially cooked medium rare)!

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#64 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

Elizabeth Latta, SAIC alum, mugs with Cube 448 at Hamburger Heaven.

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#65 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

Lynn, our waitress, was very helpful to us, Cube 448 really liked her!

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#66 Kathleen King commented on 1/28/2010

We have had the burgers at Hamburger Heaven before, so this time, Cube 448 is having the chicken salad sandwich. It tasted great!

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#67 Kathleen King commented on 1/30/2010

Elizabeth wanted to show some of her recent work. Here we are outside her studio in Palm Beach.

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#68 Kathleen King commented on 1/30/2010

There is another painting by Elizabeth Latta, SAIC alum! Shown here along with cube 448 is Rosemary, Elizabeth's mother and Michael Miller, SAIC professor.

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#69 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Last stop in Palm Beach, this is the place where Elizabeth finds background settings for some of her paintings.

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#70 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

This looks like the same spot where Elizabeth worked on studies for her garden painting!

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#71 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Cube 448 reflects by a peaceful pond in the Four Arts Garden. It will time to go back to Chicago soon and it looks like the NASA trip a no-go, at least for now...

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#72 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Cube 448 exits the Four Arts Garden building with it's two panthers on guard. It's remembered that The Art Institute of Chicago has 2 lion guardians in front of it's main building! This brings Cube 448's journey to a full circle.

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#73 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Back in Chicago at the Gallery Cafe on North Ave. where Cube 448 was found.

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#74 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Might as well get a warm cup of coffee!

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#75 Kathleen King commented on 1/31/2010

Little Cube 448 ponders what may have been if NASA had taken the offer to send it into space... that would have been the sweet money shot! Oh well, maybe NASA will check back and offer a post contest trip for Cube 448's consideration. Hear that, NASA?

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#76 Kathleen King commented on 2/10/2010

It's been in the news recently, NASA is facing budget cuts and it does not look good for future shuttle flights. Cube #448 still hopes that there will be some NASA projects in the future that it can "hitch a ride on".

Dear visitors to Cube #448's section on the site:

If you would like to see Cube 448 travel to space send your requests to NASA’s international partners:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/partners.html.

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#77 Kathleen King commented on 3/4/2010

I am surprised and happy to see that cube #448 got a mention,re: the traveling cubes section in the exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago!

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#78 gassar commented on 6/7/2010

hi iam gassar from saudia

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