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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on September 8, 2010.
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You get to choose a theme which will be used to write a letter to a stranger (eg: on average how many rainbows exist at any one time, what is the Statue of Liberty thinking, what is your favourite memory, is a big cat a big cat? etc.)
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You will have your name mentioned in one joyous letter sent to a stranger who you will forevermore be inexplicably linked with. You will receive a beautiful, high resolution digital version of the letter.
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Postcard letter with just one thunderbolting sentence proving that brevity is the sole of wit.
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A single page of an Amish newspaper detailing the minutiae of daily life (weather, personal troubles, death etc.), with sections particularly pertinent to you highlighted in lovely luminous yellow.
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You will receive a unique hand-written, hand made postcard composed whilst we were sober, clear-headed and utterly focused on the task.
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You will receive a unique hand-scrawled postcard made and written while we were drunk, which we'll regret horribly by the time it arrives.
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Pledge $29 and receive a beautiful wonky letter written left handed, which will look like it was done by a 2 year old. Rare laughable collectors item.
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You will receive a very small unique gift with a matching haiku letter.
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Pledge $38 and receive a spooky Gothic letter written in a graveyard. Guaranteed bloodcurdling semi-cutesy terror.
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Pleadge $45 and recieve a gramatickle nitemare leter ful of brilliyent errers. Spot the misteaks, fun four all the familey.
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Pledge $48 and we will send a gift letter which is made up of a list of compliments for a friend of your choice. Joying blissward present which will bring extra smiling into your dear friend's life.
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Pledge $57 and receive a fortune telling letter. We will try to summon all of our magical mystical forces and unleash them into letter form, giving a month by month breakdown of your next year. No guarantee of accurate predictions guaranteed.
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A book of all of the mysterious goings on and workings out from Mysterious Letters 1 & 2. Lists of themes, hand-drawn maps, notes on homes, things notices and ideas saved for later. The mysterious secrets of Mysterious Letters, revealed... Very limited edition of fifty books, signed by Michael & Lenka.
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Pledge $66 to recieve the spectacular hang over cure letter. One read of its sunny contents will perk you up, re-reading will have you feeling glorious. Also helps with messy break-ups, all encompassing general disgust, neighbourly revulsion, etc. etc.
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Pledge $80 and you'll be sent a buried treasure map of which there will only be one copy. We will bury a unique fabulous (weird) item and a letter in the ground, only you will know its whereabouts. Excellent excuse for a holiday.
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Pledge $99 and receive a letter written while listening to Garth Brooks. The letter will not mention the music but it contain a flavour of what we went through just for you.
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A beautiful book of the 100 best mysterious letters so far, in full beautiful technicolor! Very rare, limited edition of 100 copies, signed by Michael and Lenka.
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A beautiful handwritten letter and the film of your letter being written. Your own making-of... Behind the scenes exclusive access, directors commentry included.
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Twenty-six alphabetical gifts... A beautifully presented box with twenty-six individually wrapped mysterious gifts, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each box is different! (This is the best reward)
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You are the boss. You commission a reward from us, we do it! Please e-mail to negotiate...
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You will receive the best letter we've ever written to anyone. It will be hand delivered by Michael and Lenka to your house, wherever you live in the world.
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Michael is a writer and an artist. His writing, mostly short fiction, combines deadpan wit with absurd sentimentality. In recent stories he noticed your bank statement slowly appearing as the sunrise, combined all Chinatowns to make a second actual China and suggested that Jupiter rotates in the opposite direction every time you say nah.
Lenka is an artist and documentary maker. Her work investigates the poetry of labour expended toward an epic, utopian, often impossible task. In recent projects she searched for and photographed the 613 people mentioned in a German newspaper, hand-numbered 7000 stones, filmed one person of each age from 1 – 100, and re-organised the 4100 words of President Bush’s Axis of Evil speech into alphabetical order.
Michael & Lenka are currently writing a hand-written letter to every household in the world (with your help!).
Aw, I'm sorry you didn't get all the funding you need. If you set up another one I'll be sure to donate again, I love this idea!
Aw :-( What happens now? I'm really disappointed! But I guess not as much as Lenka and Michael...
I'm sorry you didn't get it! I like your project a lot.
I can't believe I found this. I do this in my spare time. I love the feeling of receiving mail and I jump in glee at the thought of other people receiving mail. I have already sent to the UK, Spain, France, Moldova, El Salvador, Argentina, Japan, India, Chile, and a few more. I love you guys already, keep up the writing!
Great, great great. I've a somewhat similar mystery project called the Hipstery - http://hipstery.com/ keep up the good word, your letters really surprise and entertain in a world fast losing all its mystery.
Great idea! We live in a world where we filter our surprises, where we ignore strange information, were a lot of people never NEVER received or have written a letter. I love to be surprised and think that this small elements can change a people, open up an opportunity to reflect about something new he did not searched for our expected.
Great idea, keep going, always!
P.S: I receive from TED regularly a surprise box with books. I know that I will receive one, but I do not know when and which books, games, CDs. Each time when I hold the box in my hands, I am back in my childhood, opening up, waiting to see the surprises. We have lost this feeling, therefore again: keep going.
Happy to support 2 creative people, one of which we're getting to know well...We think we've met the robot but aren't sure....No seizures here. We feel that "people to people" projects like these are just the kind of artistic endeavors we should all be supporting. The movie intro. to the project, by itself, was worth our pledge! Thanks for letting us be a part of your work, and good luck with meeting your goal! Love, M&M
I wish I could help more because I love mail and love what you are endeavoring to do. I did however, post this again to my facebook (just now) and hopefully my friends will stop being slackers :) and help. All the best to you!
This is so delightful, brilliant and stunning. Thank you.
Hi Kathleen,
Me neither! Amazon also accepts debit cards - and Mysterious Letters accepts handwritten IOU's on scraps of napkin...
thanks for wanting to support us
L&M
(m.l.)
I wanted to support you, but I have no credit card. Sorry.
So excited that this is happing once more. When I first heard your story I was moved beyond words! Keep making magic - this world certainly needs it!!
Hi everyone. Thank-you for all your wonderful pledges, and supportive messages! Amazing. We're already sharpening pencils, and putting loose sheets of paper into piles and so on. Please feel free to pass this on to uncles and neighbours who might still need treasure maps and haiku letters.
Thank-you so much!
Hi Jerry in particular, what a good question! The way to do it is to start a second (third, etc) kickstarter account then you can pledge twice and get two rewards! Thanks for asking. Wonder which two you fancy?
love, Lenka & Michael
This is pretty much the best thing I've ever encountered, and I'm excited to lend what meager financial support I can. I love sending mail, especially to strangers: I'm an avid postcrosser. If you don't know what that is, you should! www.postcrossing.com
I think this is awesome. How do I pledge for 2 or more rewards?
I adore this idea! Everybody loves getting mail, and this is so wonderfully quirky and mysterious! I wish I had more to pledge.
I love this! I'm completely broke but will share this with everyone I know....hope you make it!
yesss! I backed your last mysterious letters project and have been eagerly awaiting the next round! I have my postcard reward from last time lovingly displayed in my living room :)
yay!
Thanks for the lovely comments and backings (is backings a word?) dudes* and dudettes* ! We've got an amazing amount of pledges but are still flirting with the bottom of the mountain. 'Tis a fine bottom though. Picturesque. Still, do spread the word!
Love,
Lenka and Michael.
* Note: If you'd rather not be refered to as a dude or a dudette then here a few alternatives for you to press your inky thumb against:
Ladies and Germs.
Pals and Gals.
Hairs and Hymns.
Saints and ain'ts.
p.s. Do excuse the quality of this post.
This is a really good idea, it's time to reconnect the world, I'm happy to back your project.
This is awesome!!!
This is a super cool project! I'm very happy to back it! My fingers are crossed for you.
How could I not back this? We letter writers have to look out for each other -- and with a project as ambitious as yours, you'll need all the support you can get. You have mine.
I shall back this at some point before the expiration. best of luck to your project. brilliant idea. you should run for office.
love your project!!! if you ever need help with writing..let me know..would love to be part of it!
Good luck friends ;)
BOSS LUCK!
once i can decide on the reward (not easy!), i am so backing this