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New Travel Agency Will Send You To An Unknown Destination

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Need a little adventure in your life? That's exactly what the Bureau of Unknown Destinations is offering. They've set up shop at 543 Union Street in Brooklyn, and are offering "temporary displacements to members of the public seeking to experiment with their migratory impulses." Say what? Basically, you make a booking for a day’s journey, where the Bureau chooses your own adventure for you.

You’ll be presented with a free round trip ticket for a train adventure (along with a notebook and a small, somewhat absurd, task). Begin your day by tearing open a sealed envelope and revealing the mystery of where you will find yourself by noon. Set forth, free of decisions, into the great (or perhaps, in this case, the small) unknown. Test your sense of destiny. Have lunch someplace new.

The Bureau's offices are open most Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m., and always by appointment. This is all part of a three month artist's residency by Sal Randolph at Proteus Gowanus, extending through mid-April. For more information, you are directed here.

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  • RobertMosesSupposesErroneously
    Nice typeface choice - has a sort of tongue-in-cheek midcentury bureaucratic feel.
  • ugh, another rent-seeking middle man sets up shop in new york city
  • Fucking stupid
  • cr17
    Discounts given to people who can fit large amounts of drugs in their rectums?
  • jisnotused
    Say goodbye to your kidney
  • They should expand this idea to international travel.  Will you open the envelope to find Cancun or Paris?  Or will it be Mogadishu or Pyongyang?
  • TheRealCannibal
    or a brothel? or a labor camp?
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