Tasks / The Beautiful Letter
Create a love letter (either real or ficticious). Figure out a way to distribute it such that either:
(A) it is viewed by a great number of people, or
(B) it is viewed by a very small number of people but as a result it completely blows their minds.
As an example of (A) consider the following:
Spiral Love Letter: Helen has vanished, and one of her admirers writes her a love letter. To impress her, he divides the letter into eighteen parts, and prints each part on a separate US Priority Mail sticker. The letter contains prose, poetry, a brief play, e-theory, and several hyperlinks (printed in blue) to significant project websites. He places the stickers on street corners in downtown Chicago, starting at Washington and Dearborn and ending at Monroe and Wabash. There are four of the same stickers per intersection, one on each corner. Each sticker lists the intersection before and after, such that readers can follow the chain of stickers to read the letter in its entirety. The path they must follow forms a spiral that progresses past the Art Institute to the Palmer House Hotel. There, the letter indicates that the reader should "go up" and contains instructions for ascending to the roof of the hotel. On the roof they find a piece of paper with more plot information in a ziploc bag.
As an example of (B), consider if the love letter were inserted into a random file in an office in which you do not work.
1 to 8 players
20 points
Level 1
Requires BART Psychogeographical Association OR EquivalenZ OR The University of Aesthematics OR Humanitarian Crisis
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfvuJr9164&NR=1 reminded me of this. It's not a letter, but it's sweet
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