Update #5: The Eiffel Tower and Woody Harrelson
Hello All,
Something rare, outrageous and breathtakingly lovely has been added to the $100 pledge mark, please do have a look.
For those wonderful people who have already pledged that much (and more) you instantly qualify for the new thing, if you would like it. (assuming we hit our target...)
The new pledge is partly a celebration as Lenka got married today!!!
I should probably keep this to myself but I also tried to add a special one million dollar "Indecent Proposal" pledge but the system doesn't allow for it. Rightly so, it was a weak joke:
"Michael dresses as Demi Moore. You dress as Robert Redford. Five minutes of flirting gets you precisely nowhere."
Oceans and rivers and streams and joyful tears of thanks to everyone who has pledged so far!!!
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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.
Pledge $10 or more Pledge $10 or more
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.
Pledge $24 or more Pledge $24 or more
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.
Pledge $75 or more Pledge $75 or more
You will receive an epic stocky letter which sadly goes on for a bit too long and clutters up your otherwise tidy home.
Pledge $100 or more Pledge $100 or more
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 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.
Pledge $500 or more Pledge $500 or more
Utter mystery. Even we have no idea what it is. Only for the reckless spendthrift.
Pledge $2,000 or more Pledge $2,000 or more
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.
Pledge $3,000 or more Pledge $3,000 or more
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!).
Wooo! What a happy day! I am sending cups full of love , and basket fulls, and swimming pools full...