Famous Hitchhikers, Part III:

Hitchhiker Update Lee de Forest Missing!

HITCHHIKER UPDATE - Have you seen me?

Lee de Forest is missing. No signal. We remain optimistic.
This is the first hitchhiker to have this occur. - 8/1/2006

Read all about the Hitchhikers in the Valley of Heart's Delight Art Project here if you haven't already done so.

Here is the August 9th entry in his travelogue at www.ylem.org/Hitchhikers/deForest.html

August 9: Sadly, de Forest is our first missing hitchhiker. He is so cute, too! We hope that he is just in a large hotel, or somewhere that a signal can not escape. Either Julie or Mike will check the Blue Monkey today. We may have to start a "Have you seen me?" campaign. Please let us know if you have seen him.

And here is the last place he was seen:

August 8: We did not realize when we picked the drop off location for de Forest that the California Theatre was right in the heart of the ZeroOne festival. A kindly participant, Chris Tann, picked him up and sent a photo, "I picked up a hitchhiker tonight, Lee De Forest. I met him at the California Theatre, and we strolled down to the Paragon to take a quick drink with some of the artists there. I couldn't persuade him to try "Ice cream karaoke" though. I was going to give him a lift further, but unfortunately he couldn't fit all his baggage in my car, so I had to leave him behind - I last saw him trying to hitch a lift opposite the Blue Monkey Lounge, on San Fernando Street.

Sorry I couldn't take him further, I'll keep an eye out for him tomorrow, when I'll be traveling by light rail!

If you know anything about Lee de Forest's current whereabouts, please contact Julie Newdoll at or Fine Art Registry:
Thanks!

Read more about the Hitchhikers Project:   Part I   |   Part II   |   Part IV

— by David Charles  |  August 1, 2006

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