And now, for something a bit different: Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe are two creative artists with a very special goal – to send a personal handwritten letter to everyone in the world! Impossible? Most likely. Crazy? Perhaps. But it’s surely different, and they are doing their best to do it in a creative and mysterious way – they call it Mysterious Letters.
In April last year, they have sent handwritten letters to all 467 households in the Irish village of Cushendall – not bad for a start. And in November, they wrote 620 letters – all different and personal – to each home in Polish Hill (Pittsburgh, USA). Here’s what BBC had to say about it:
But they are not stopping here. Now they want to go even bigger and write to even more people!
This time, they are allowing anyone to get involved in their enthusiastic plan – they have setup their project at kickstarter.com so that people can donate towards it (if there aren’t enough supporters, the donation is returned).
In exchange for the donations, they are offering peculiar things – from allowing the supporters to choose a theme for the letters they will send, to actually receive handwritten letters from Michael and Lenka themselves. For the largest supporter level, they are even offering to hand deliver a letter to the supporter in person!
Even though it sounds a bit crazy, we love the creative way they are doing it all. You can find more information about the project at their Mysterious Letters blog and for details of how help them, check here.
10 comments so far
I so much wanted to have invented this! I'm jalous of those two. I love love love it. They got my support. I will follow them!
Thanks for sharing, Paulo.
Hmmm. I'm waiting for mine ;)
Hahaha, pure awesomeness! :D
I like this idea. I would participate, except it's less of a thrill for me because I'm a letter-writer myself. And I would be much more willing to donate if it wasn't just for art, but if some of it went to charity as well. Now if there was a project where someone sponsored people to write letters for other people, to raise money for charity, that would be the bee's knees! :)
And I think I understood about 80% of that video. Some of the accents made me wish I had subtitles to read! :P
A lovely idea :)
I do agree about the statistical impossibility - not to mention that not everyone understands English.
I also agree; raising money for charity would make me donate in an instant.
I do understand that artists have to live too :)
Cushendall is Northern Irish. Not Irish
*petty Belfast person is petty*
Amazing idea :)
I know someone who got ones in the first round and it really did amaze the whole town!
To my opinion art for the harmless sake of art, involving the public: that is charity.
I'm curious about how they got all adresses of a town..:) Or they just frome to central Post office and asked to distribute letters to everyone in the town:) Still i think it's nice but i like more idea to sent 6.8 billion postcards through postcrossing:))
Wow! Handwritten letters considered to be arty - that's a interesting point of view!
...some have attic disturbances to consider a letter scary :))
I would like to receive mysterious letters! :D