Quote Originally Posted by jessamineny View Post
That mural was in LA.

The ammo boxes were given away out of the back of a van on an LA street in 2007. People were given a time and place to go, and the van pulled up and started handing them out. Only 60-100 are believed to exist. A handful of the ammo boxes had cell phones, where people were later contacted to go to that AIR concert in a warehouse. (That one where they pretended it was being raided by the government mid-concert.)
Thanks.

I wish the whole Year Zero experience had been better documented. Of course the research on ninwiki exists, and I'm grateful that some dedicated fans were able to compile all that data. But due to the multimedia nature of the ARG, not every fragment of information is easily captured because the context of the moment is gone. The personal experiences each of us had were pretty damn special, and I feel that those who missed out *really* missed out. Not to mention that the whole online experience is now completely defunct. It's easy to forget all the tiny scraps of what happened where and what that meant to us at the time.

The Year Zero ARG made the album so much more powerful, whereas a new listener might be left cold to some of the true meanings and references in the songs. I suppose it served its purpose, and maybe that was TR's intention all along; to let the experience live on through the people who experienced it. Google searches yield the history of the ARG but it was nothing like being there and playing the game with all of you guys. 2007 (in fact, the whole 2005-2009 era) was an amazing time to be a NIN fan.