Do you remember time capsules, the boxes of mementoes, pictures, and stuff we would bury in a place and not look at at for years, if at all? Well, during my 5 months of traveling in 2011, I wanted to create a digital one, and asked for your help in adding content to it.

I was looking for digital files-- written words, poems, original music, audio recordings, videos, animations, anything you can create that says something about this time, what you are doing, or the place you are at, you or the sounds in your back yard-- or even what you had for lunch today. Capture your moment!

But what I sought are not things downloaded from the web, but ones you have created, that do not exist anywhere else online. All you need to do is share your Moment Momentos and ilater, I may try and make sense if it.

I am traveling with this real object, an anonymous digital collection box if you will, accesible wonly in places I am at and it is tyrned on. If you are reading this online, I have another way for you to be part of this.

• Step away from the computer, and reflect for a bit.
• Create some content (e.g. text document, photo, audio file). Do not use your name to identify yourself, this is anonymous. Be sure to give your stuff descriptive or interesting file names; that is the only thing people will have to go by when they look inside the StoryBox/
• Upload as many things as you like to dropitto.me/cogdog -- use the password storybox.
• New! You can email attachments to my dropbox via storybox (UNDERSCORE) tu8r (AT) sendtodropbox DOT com

Then what? I am still not sure. At one time I thought about putting all the content back to the web, but now having traveled with the StoryBox, what makes the content special is that it is in the box. My plan is to archive the content from my 2011 travels, and create new collections as I experiment with workshops in 2012. The new goal is to ask people to remix and combine the StoryBox Content, and then publish that work onto the web.

If you have created anything from StoryBox content, please let me know via http://bit.ly/storybox-published.

Known StoryBox appearances include:

• January-May 2011: My section of ds106 at the University of Mary Washington.
• SXSWedu, March 6, 2012, Austin TX

This "PirateBox" was designed as a simple, free, anonymous file sharing mechanism created by David Darts, an art professor at NYU (learn more...)

About the size of a thick paperback book, it is a self-contained web server (running on a thumb drive) and wireless router. When activated, it creates an open wireless network named "PirateBox: Share Freely". Anyone who joins it can share files (and see what has been shared). It has been called "an artistic provocation".

The main premise is to share content, that for now, does not exist anywhere else. Im my version of a PirateBox, I am looking for things that might help tell a story, hence, it is a StoryBox.

This is where the StoryBox traveled in 2011:

It even has a song written for it by @onepercentyello- listen to All The Pirates Get in the Box

What was collected includes...

• audio recordings: 151
• documents: 18
• music: 47
• photos: 927
• videos: 106
• remixes: 6

I am asking you to share and give away everything you put on here, and can only hope you trust me with that. Consider this a place for your second hand images, your throwaways. Put together, I am inviting other people to create new stories out of the pieces, and to release these mixes into the open web.

If you don't like these ridiculous conditions, then please disconnect and have a nice day. I admit by asking you to share in anonymity, I wont be able to give you credit. C'est la vie d'internet.

Thanks to Grant Potter for pointing out the PirateBox; Zack "NoiseProfessor" Dowell for actually building and giving me one, and Giulia Forsythe for helping frame the questions and making me some cool art like the invitation cards and stickers!