I remember playing with this set.

Framed box on red brick wall is full of different bottle openers, also known as church keys.

Useful tools...

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Framed box on wall full of church keys.

A set of diverse stickers afixed to a fridge/cabinet behind a bar.

A diverse and very cool set of stickers behind the bar. Location undisclosed.

#stickerart

“A perfect example of story telling with a Qingxit. A small tale of adventure and survival. Very descriptive and telling…”
S.H.R. 2018

Pen and ink with color pencil drawing of a spear with stone tip dripping blood above what appears to be a rare t-bone steak.

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The nomad pulls his spear from his kill.

“When you get your ticket to the zoo and they ask you if you want giraffe crackers, say YES!!”
S.H.R. 2018

Pen and ink with color pencil drawing of a giraffe head/face with long tongue sticking out to feed on a cracker.

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Feed the giraffes crackers from the top of the walkway. They have really long tongues.

“I don’t get to see all my favorite Qingxit in person. Sometimes I have to settle for the virtual visit. I don’t know why this Qingxit said the cupcake was a trap but sometimes the adventure is in not knowing.”
S.H.R. 2018

Pen and ink drawing with color pencil of a delicious looking cupcake sitting in the center of a bear trap.

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Kate’s Frosting. The cupcake! It’s a trap!

Pen and ink drawing with color pencil of a large wedge of carrot cake on a plate. A raw carrot spears through the cake slice at an angle from left to right.

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Holy Bugs Bunny!!! Now this is carrot cake!!!

Pen and ink drawing of two cocktails on a table corner in the foreground. In the background is a slightly open door. A scythe symbol adorns the door.

First a drink... then an exit...

36.339622 -117.46866 Drinks at Death’s door.

"These are real locations, real places, but also a special kind of art. Each Qingxit is an expression, an interpretation, a something … sometimes a description, sometimes a tiny story, sometimes a mystery …”

S.H.R. 2018

"One of the coolest things about Qingxit is that they are a digital mark of an analog thing. Each Qingxit creates a connection between the real world and the virtual world. You can go there! In both worlds!"

Pen and ink drawing of a right hand holding a pair of eye glasses. The left eye piece is colored blue.

Look closer...

A circus elephant with trunk held high stands on a pack of generic cigarettes. It’s Qingxit like this one that always make me wonder what more is going on. There must be more to the story…” S.H.R. 2018 The unrelated elephant (by S.H.R. 2018, pen and ink and pencil on paper)

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Discount Cigarettes are sold here. The circus elephant on the side of the shack is a little unrelated…

Building in left foreground. Behind it is an old water tower with word, Belen written on it. Background is a blue sky with some white puffy clouds.

The wonder of water...

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Old water tower.

What is a Qingxit?

A Qingxit is a digital marker that marks a real location and what is of interest at that location.

Outside area with picnic tables. Fence between area and building offers mini murals.

Someplace lost. Someplace found. Now, someplace marked.

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A little art mural outside the tap room.

Store front window sign is a happy face. On a plate two fried eggs are the eyes, a mound of hash browns are the nose, and a slice of bacon is the smiling mouth. Words above and below the face say Durango Diner.

Bacon makes me happy...

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Eat breakfast here at the Durango Diner when really hungry.

One of my most favorite books.

More stickers completely covering up electric utility boxes.

It was a crazy #stickerart!

Mural on building depicts astronomical bodies in a black sky. In foreground head and shoulders side view of a woman looking right while a prismatic rainbow emits from her eyes.

She has a vision...

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Cool mural on old downtown building wall.

Dynamite Museum The Dynamite Museum is an art installation that is made up of thousands of painted-over road signs scattered across Amarillo. There was no rhyme or reason to the messages on the signs; the people behi...

I hear you. They're crazy!

987thebomb.com/brian-deneke...

www.visitamarillo.com/listing/dyna...

Fake traffic sign depicts a bird with a very long beak. The beak has pierced and is holding what appears to be a round, baseball sized piece of fruit.

Bird hazard ahead...

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Dynamite Museum piece. A bird?

Did a doubletake. Thought at first the entrance was a re-purposed old school phone booth. Very cool!

Stickers covering all available space on utility electric meter boxes.

Sticker shock...

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Lots of stickers covering electric meter boxes.

Sign says "Flying Cow Natural Skincare" with a picture of a flying saucer seemingly 'beaming up' a cow from the ground.

Yet again. Flying saucers, aliens, and a cow. What is the connection?

Large mural depicting space ships, space aliens, strange eyes, and a cow.

Aliens apparently like cows...

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Mural of aliens and other space creatures and a cow.

Reminds me of a movie...

Spectacular!