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We suggest you consider this as a loose procedure for a film involving miniatures, or as simple rules for a game about suspicion.

Two separate committees will form to work on a carefully crafted miniature set, a scale model (something like 1:15) of a five mile radius, taken from within the limits of a small American town. The role of the first committee is, simply put, to recreate the area in question in as exacting a sense of detail as is possible with currently available technology. All necessary reference data should be collected on a warm Spring day, only slightly cloudy; if this miniature town is to stand in relative perpetuity, it should stand as such on a day more temperate than not.

The second committee has a simple job; for every hundred scale feet of the original version of the town, they must enact a specific act of disruption on the model version. This disruption may be as large (painting a house a completely different color, for example) or small (placing a tiny pile of leaves inside a tiny gutter) as the second committee so desires.

Each committee will have as long as necessary to complete their tasks. There will be no communication between the two committees. The first committee, in fact, will be completely unaware as to the existence of the second committee.

Side Note

The exercises of these workers, from the collection of the reference data to the efforts of the committees in creating the model (and the disruption of said model) will be documented on film and placed in an archive. It is not the end to the project; it is to be understood more as a byproduct, like the halftime show of an American football game.

End Side Note

A tiny, remote controlled vehicle will be outfitted with cameras and lenses designed so that the miniature village, seen through those lenses, appears indistinguishable from the 1:1 scaled town it was built from.

A volunteer, a resident of the original town (for an amount of time not less than a decade), who had been in that five mile radius on the day that the reference data was originally taken, will be brought to a small room. In this room, bare save for the necessary controls, his vision will be restricted to the camera feed of the remote controlled vehicle as it rolls through the scale model of the town he has lived in for so long.

This is the portion of the procedure which will create the "end product" of this project as a whole - the audio and video feeds taken when this man looks at this miniature town through miniature lenses . His objective is as such -- he must single out every single element in the miniature that differs form his memory of the town as it was on the day the reference data was taken. He will have no longer than two hours and fifteen minutes to make his complete circuit through the town.

Points will be rewarded to the first committee every time the volunteer identifies a discrepancy caused by the other team; points will be awarded the second committee every time he notices a discrepancy not actually of their making.

At no point will any party - the first committee, second committee, volunteer -- have any knowledge of the work being done by the other parties, apart from the bare minimum required to complete the tasks they have been assigned.