Washington, D.C. Is About to Get Punked

Washington, D.C. Is About to Get Punked: "Not by Ashton Kutcher, but by Yellow Arrow, an arts and technology project initiated by the New York based mixed-reality and entertainment company, Counts Media. The May issue of Spin magazine reports that in June, Yellow Arrow and it's M.A.A.P. (Massively Authored Artistic Publication) makers will be documenting the District's punk-rock scene by placing their signature yellow arrow stickers on various well known sites around the city. Which hardcore sites could you visit to find one of these stickers? The tour will likely include famed venues like the old 9:30 Club, Black Cat, Fort Reno, Sacred Heart Church, as well as the Wilson Center and several houses in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, which many young punks called home. Each sticker contains a unique number which you can use in a text message sent from your cell phone to receive information on the location's history and significance as part of a virtual underground tour of the city. Yellow Arrow's website invites anyone interested in participating to sign up and recieve a tagname to join any of the current projects or start one of their own. All of the submissions are contained in an online gallery for others to view and discuss.

What other lesser known aspects of D.C. would you want to share through one of these interactive sticker tours? Maybe point out some hot spots in the city's Jazz roots around U Street? Or a history of the city's political scandals?

Sign up, go out and paint this town yellow."