Today was pretty ordinary for the most part. But the first trip to the red British letterbox felt like the start of something truly wonderful. Perhaps you could say it was because snow was falling, Christmas songs were playing all around me, London was being transformed into a romantic winter scene... but no, it was because this is the beginning of what will surely be remembered as a truly remarkable year.
You may have seen I've teamed the mailart365 project with a specially-created website www.questioneverything365.blogspot.com which I started in order to run parrallel to this project. I can now reveal that the point of QE365 is to use a postcard a day to tell the story of something which didn't turn out as we expected. As an example, Andy will soon be receiving a postcard which reads:
It was a dark winter day when Andy decided he'd turn his back on society and quit the mighty mighty facebook. "Don't go" they said, "you won't have any friends left" they said, "you'll never get a girlfriend" they cried, "who in their right mind is gonna send you postcards to hang above your underpants?" they sniggered.
Yet less than two years on, here he is. Inspiring mailartists all over the world, about to get married and surrounded by more postcards than he could ever imagine. Andy, I've chosen myREALwall as the one to send my first mailart365 postcard to. Very fittingly, my project describes precisely the tale of the REALwall: questioneverything365 is going to tell a short story of things which turned out precisely how we didn't expect them to. This is an opportunity to uncover some serious miscalculations, spectacular gaffs and the unexpected.
So, for now I won't publish a picture of the postcard so that Andy has at least something to look forward to as a surprise (but don't get too excited, Andy, it was a pretty amateur effort).
Wish you all a successful year ahead and look forward to our adventures :)
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December 1, 2010 at 10:31 PM
GAH! I'll post your postcard up as soon as it arrives (above my underpants probably) so that the rest of 365 don't remain hanging for too long. Glad you rediscovered mail and can't wait to see it all
December 1, 2010 at 10:33 PM
A brilliant post by the way. Made us both smile here at my REAL wall HQ
December 1, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Cheers Andy, today's really made me realise just what a big part of life this project will be - envisaging a lot more late nights ahead, but waking up more full-of-life because there's always something to look forward to!
December 1, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Yeah it's a huge project, but I hope you get the same feeling from creation of mailart that we get. You couldn't have described it better actually
December 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM
That's a cool idea. I'm quite curious to hear the following stories.
This story is so true and funny.
Nice start.
February 13, 2011 at 6:56 PM
So sad it never arrived. Really weird to think I only had to go about 5 miles down the road as well
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