Listen up if you're looking to declutter your home. It's possible to artistically arrange your unwanted property throughout a major city, have it find a home, and not be considered a litterer.
Shaheryar Malik, an art director from London living in New York City, decided to lighten the load of his home library by placing about forty books in eight individual stacks throughout Manhattan and have his friend take a single picture to document the moment. Then he walked away unsure what would happen.
According to The Guardian, each book included Malik's email address and directions to contact him wherever the book ended up. Malik says that he's received over sixty emails from thirty countries, including recently from a woman in Holland saying she read one of his books and left it on a local subway there to pass it on.
It all started when Malik was crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and decided to take a ubiquitous selfie. Instead, an idea occurred, as he tells The Guardian: "Then I stopped and thought: 'Instead of taking the picture that has been taken millions of times, I’m going to share something different with the world.'"
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The book titles include Physics for You and The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking.
Mailk never said he was going to share literary books with the world.
Just something different.
And it's fun.
photos: Dani Yim
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