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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 9, 2009.
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You will have your name written in calligraphy on a list that will be read in a reverential tone of voice into the letterbox as we post all of the letters. (Specific accents requestable.) You also receive our unconditional lavender love.
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You get to choose a theme which will be used to write a letter to a stranger (eg: how giraffes give birth, babies’ names, what dogs are thinking when they look at the moon, etc.) Each donor will receive a digital image of the resulting letter and a unique digital thank you.
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You will receive a unique hand-written 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 written while we were drunk, which we'll regret horribly by the time it arrives.
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You will receive a gorgeous hand-written letter, thoroughly spell-checked and mildly scented (agreeable smell). Bulging with highkickery.
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You will receive an epic stocky letter which sadly goes on for a bit too long and clutters up your otherwise tidy home.
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A gorgeous love letter with a STAGGERING item for you or anyone you choose: A bag containing 0.0001% of the Eiffel Tower!!! (filed and picked off.) Limited to one million as otherwise the whole tower would be filed down to nothing. The most romantic post conceivable!
Pledge $200 or more
Various tasty bits: A letter, on any topic to anyone. Sealed with the kiss of a hired model. (Really) & a deluxe edition box of prints of the 10 best letters (Signed!) & a copy of the Mysterious Letters Play (Rare). Nothing else.
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Utter mystery. Even we have no idea what it is. Only for the reckless spendthrift.
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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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YOU get to choose the next town we write to (under 900 households).
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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!).
I love myself for loving you! This project rocks!
You guys are awesome !!!!
I just stumbled on this while looking at a friends kick starter project.
Has anyone done a documentary on the two of you yet?
I have just been reading about your fantastic project and would like to say that it has cheered my day up no end! It's made an otherwise uneventful lunchtime more plesant than one would expect on a Thursday afternoon in February. The very best of luck with your task and I hope that you will come back to Ireland some day to write again. Kerrie
Hello you two,
I received my postcard last week and I am delighted to give it a place on my fridge. Thanks a lot and I love to hear more from you. I am really into your work. Christiane
The scope of the dream is impressive, considering that if every letter you wrote consisted only of the single word 'Hello!', you would have six billion words to write. Let's say you could write the letter, fold, seal, and stamp it, as quickly as you could pronounce a number.
According to calculations, you can "count to ten thousand in about an hour, or about 100,000 in a ten-hour day. That would be over 3 million each year, so 6 billion would take about 2000 years." I hope you are also looking for the Fountain of Immortality in your spare time (those other 14 hours in the day). Good luck!
Good luck finding me......;)
Your even sending a letter to the rothschilds? Might be difficult finding their address.
I do want a letter from you.
whoop! thank you for the little post card in the mail. it's on our fridge....
currently around 90046 area
Thank-you Tanya!
Which particular part of LA do you live in? (just for our records)
Lenka and Michael
you both are truely wonderful!
if only i knew about this project a little bit earlier.. i wouldve tried to help.
i can not wait untill you send me a letter, but i live all the way in los angeles,california
probably many years from now when im out of highschool prbably and when my memory of mysterious letters has forgotten an
delightful surprising letter will be mailed at my door...
much love, tanya m.
I think this is such a lovely idea! Had I found out about it earlier I would've helped out with a little donation, but alas you have reached your target.. Maybe next time then. Hope you two are wonderful. x
Please email me any time at havespacesuitwilltravel it's a gmail address.
Hi John,
Thank-you very much! We'd love to accept your kind stamp offer. Can we e-mail you somehow?
L & M
x
can't wait for you to come to my town. best of luck!
I live in ten minutes from the water front it's called Lincoln Place (15207). If your next town is in the USA I'd love do donate some old lickable stamps. I've got "deep sea creatures" (2000) and some Hubble Space Telescope ones too, I think older stamps are a nice touch, mix up the monotony of peal and stick modern ones. (there's only a few, no seinfeld-esque deaths to worry about)
Gallons of thanks of the comments!
Paula: Hobart is penciled in for sometime in the next 8 years. We LOVE Australia!
John: Thanks. Go Steelers! (Where do you live in Pittsburgh?)
Mariah: Many thanks!
Kelly: Thanks! We didn't lick any (stumps or) stamps, they were all modern and swanky stickers. Otherwise there might've been a Seinfeld-esque death.
Joseph: Thanks for the pledge and re-thanks!
Beautiful idea! Hope the letters get to Hobart, capital city of Tasmania. Yes, right on the other side of the world. All the best with it!
Lovely Idea. You're well on your way. I'm in Pittsburgh too, maybe I'll see you around one of these days. Best of luck.
This is wonderful,
You guys - this is awesome! I was cracking up because at first I thought the news commentator in the video said "a lot of stump licking..." - wha??? And then I realized he said a lot of STAMP licking.. oh!! duh.. ha!
(I also like that the drunken postcard costs a $1 more than the sober postcard..) Looks like you're well on your way to reaching your goal! How exciting! :)
Super Idea! Best Of Luck. ;)