A scavenger hunt is a game in which an organizer prepares a list defining specific items which the participants (as either individuals or teams) seek to gather. The goal is most often to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner. Not unlike a scavenger hunt, Instagram is a portal where images are shared from our lives with a vast social network via mobil technology but where there is no list of specific things to be found. Or is it?

Always curious as to the interconnectivity of things, (for example, but not limited to how people meet and communicate) “Hunt” is a project that was recently conceived by me and Francesca Fondevila after having established a friendship thru this simple application a few months prior. It’s all about chaos vs. order, voyeurism and how we can curate from unlimited visual stimuli.

Choice blindness refers to ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences. The Hawthorne effect is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior, simply because they are being studied. In selective group perception, people tend to actively filter information they think is irrelevant. Perhaps by introducing a control we can further investigate this phenomena in a visual landscape.

Once a month Francesca and I will contact an instagram user that is outside of our circle of friends with a list of 30 items. They will have one day to find, photograph and upload in realtime using the hash tag “#dossierhunt”. The images will then be displayed here using the same layout each time. The first of this series will be from @_metal_mouth_ whom is the aforementioned  co creator for this project.

Above dead bug : string

scissors (all metal) : colored or printed sock

something broken: puddle of liquid

a heart : an alive bug

a secret : something cold

a scar : something stolen

up : down

a pencil : fruit

shaped rock : page 67 from a book

something that makes you smile : something hot

a fork : a cd

poem : a bruise

water : monster

something torn : a number

While never really working on his first short film Fikon Tony Cederteg made these short little films with his cell phone – mostly for the music of Jony but obviously in some restlessness.

BYG Actuel was a series of avant-garde/free jazz records put out on the French label BYG Records in the late 1960′s. The understated and repetitive designs now make for some of the most iconic record covers ever released, and the music is still considered to be some of the most extreme recorded.

Jandek is a group of musicians who have been active under the alias since the late 1970′s. They have self-released over sixty albums. This is a small selection of cover images.

These ads depicting women were published in American magazines in the past fifty years.

To accompany our feature on Waris Ahluwalia, we asked him to pony up some images he finds inspiring, a kind of vision board if you will. He did. Not wanting to unravel all of their enchantment, or the romance they hold for him, Waris titled them, tersely, “things that I like.”

This family of birds –teratornithidae – lived in North and South America from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.

Screenshots from a Russian documentary on the Sino-Soviet border conflict of 1969.