Smudge Studio invites you to participate in a simultaneous collaborative

event with dozens of people across New York City.

Manhattan Stonehenge:� The Grid Becomes Else needs your participation

anywhere throughout the five boroughs of New York on any or all of the

evenings of July 12, 13, and 14th, 2006.� On those days between 8:15-8:30

p.m., the sun fully illuminates cross streets on Manhattan’s street grid

(except the curved or angled ones) as it sets on each street’s centerline.

The phenomenon has been called Manhattan’s Stonehenge, or Manhattanhenge.

(Find out more on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5435113)

We invite our collaborators to:

� � � � observe the sunset on any of these three days,

� � � � take a digital photo that responds to your experience of the sun’s

flow of light as it interacts with the city’s built environment,

� � � � email your photo to us for display in an exhibition,

� � � � release the city’s street grid to be experienced as else.

We will include your work in an exhibition in a Lower Manhattan Cultural

Council Work Space, and give you full credit as an artist collaborator on

all promotional materials.

To take part, please RSVP to gridbecomeselse@gmail.com with the date or

dates you will participate and the location you intend to photograph.

To learn more, email us at smudgestudio@gmail.com and visit

www.smudgestudio.org.

This project is supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

When submitting you photographs, please send HIGH resolution images

minimally sized to 300 DPI at 5×7 for quality reproduction. Send submissions

to gridbecomeselse@gmail.com no later than July 15, 2006.