Some walking games from Phil Smith

Gum Galaxy

Where the pavements are covered, like a rash, in chewing gum, use chalk to draw lines to connect the pieces of gum in stellar constellations. Name them in Latin (if you don't know any Latin make it up).


Solo 'Splorin" Exercises

• You are Cupid. Match people in the streets.
• You are a diver. Explore the city as if it were underwater.
• You are a mist. Drift through the city.
• You are a fox in human skin.
• You are dead and gone to heaven/hell.
• The city is under occupation by intelligent microbes, Martian bodysnatchers, mind control rays - you can't tell the resisters from the wholly invaded. Do not attract attention to yourself. Choose routes where the least number of people will see you. Use allets and back paths. Walk calmly through crowds. Show no emotions. Ignore commodities. Hide your hunger.

I found the above from Phil Smith's new book Mythogeography - A Guide to Walking Sideways - Triarchy Press (pp 148-149). I've written about Phil before and even before that. He continues to amaze and confound me with his light-hearted, and often disturbingly profound explorations of the art of walking alone.

This is his site.

(gummy street image from neoneocon)

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith