Björn Franken created a kit for implying a fictional affair through fabricated evidence such as receipts, ticket stubs, and notes. The kit allows people to imagine and share stories without actually engaging in deception. It is a device for implying fictional narratives.

2. Traces of an Imaginary
Affair
Bjorn Franken
2009
Designer Björn Franke created a kit
for creating evidence of an
imaginary affair.
It is a device for implying a fictional
story.
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3. MacGuffin
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin
or maguffin) is "a plot element that
catches the viewers' attention or
drives the plot of a work of fiction".[1]
The defining aspect of a MacGuffin
is that the major players in the story
are (at least initially) willing to do
and sacrifice almost anything to
obtain it, regardless of what the
MacGuffin actually is. In fact, the
specific nature of the MacGuffin
may be ambiguous, undefined,
generic, left open to interpretation
or otherwise completely
unimportant to the plot. Common
examples are money, victory, glory,
survival, a source of power, or a
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potential
something entirely unexplained.

4. Streetmuseum
Phone App
2010
Images from the Museum of London‟s archives are overlaid
on their current day equivalent when viewed through an
iPhone, visually showing the historical stories of places.
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5. The Listening Post
Science Museum, London
2009
Listening Post is a „dynamic
portrait‟ of online communication,
displaying uncensored fragments of
text, sampled in real-time, from
public internet chatrooms and
bulletin boards. Artists Mark
Hansen and Ben Rubin have
divided their work into seven
separate „scenes‟ akin to
movements in a symphony. Each
scene has its own „internal logic‟,
sifting, filtering and ordering the
text fragments in different ways.
By pulling text quotes from
thousands of unwitting contributors'
postings, Listening Post allows you
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to experience an extraordinary

6. Post Secret
International
2005 - ongoing
An international project where people send in their
secrets anonymously on a postcard. “Community
mail art” is how founder Frank Warren describes it.
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7. The Nutcracker
Russia
1891
In Western countries, The Nutcracker has become
perhaps the most popular of all ballets, performed
primarily during the Christmas season. In the United
States, especially since the 1960s, it has
transcended its origins as a mere ballet or piece of
classical music, becoming a part of American
tradition almost as much as the 1939 film The
Wizard of Oz. Countless cities across the U.S. now
stage the ballet at Christmas time, and new
telecasts, video versions and interpretations of the
ballet now appear even more often than before.
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8. Photo of the Day
Various Locations
March 31 1979 – Oct 25
1997
Photographer as Jamie Livingston took a photo
every day for eighteen years, until the day he died,
using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the
project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned
to collect them at some point — had he lived. He
died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday.
After Livingston‟s death, his friends Hugh Crawford
and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and
website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF
THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in
sequence.
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9. Give Up Your Aul Sins
Dublin, Ireland
2001
More than 30 years ago, young Dublin children
were recorded on a battered tape recorder as they
gave their interpretation of stories from the bible.
The story of John the Baptist, is told by a little girl
with great passion and an obvious delight in the
telling of it....
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10. Tattoo Confidential .
Com
Interwebs
Ongoing
A website that collects the stories behind people‟s
tattoos.
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