tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11746927687497438762011-07-07T16:31:08.328-07:00.noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174692768749743876.post-56949933784620301892010-06-10T07:26:00.000-07:002010-06-10T07:30:11.270-07:00<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuclpdVAMM1qz4ede.jpg" height="375" width="500" /></p> <p><b>Most Effective at Mystifying an Entire Village</b>: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646138685/mysterious-letters">Lenka &amp; Michael, Mysterious Letters</a></p> <p>Mysterious Letters is a project by Lenka and Michael, two artists who’ve decided to write everyone in the world a personal letter, one town at a time. In April they mailed everyone in a small Irish village a letter on the same day, and in November they did the same with a Pittsburgh neighborhood called Polish Hill. The aftermath, as we carefully detailed in <a href="http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/275023969/the-mysterious-letters-aftermath">this blog post</a>, was enormous: tons of befuddled press (the BBC devoted five minutes to it — the broadcast is their project’s pitch video) and equally baffled letter recipients.</p> <p>Among the anecdotes in the press reports was this amazing passage:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>Anna Misiaszek, who runs Alfred’s Deli Plus with her husband, said the letter that arrived at their shop seemed silly. It read: “Next time someone tries to bamboozle you with the cup and ball trick (on holiday in Turkey, at a city bus station …) choose the cup on the right.”</i></p> <i>“This is something crazy. I treat this like a joke,” she said Tuesday.</i> <p><i><b>She initially tore up the letter and tossed it in the trash, but later retrieved it when she was told it was an art project.</b></i></p> </blockquote> <p>Our final favorite bit? After the last mailing, <a href="http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/275023969/the-mysterious-letters-aftermath">signs began appearing </a>all over Polish Hill proclaiming simply, “Don’t worry, it was an art project.”</p><p><br /></p><p>By Yancey Strickler one of Kickstarter's founders, writing for the <a href="http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/321752485/the-kickstarter-awards-sentimental-favorites">Kickstarter Blog</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1174692768749743876-5694993378462030189?l=mysteriouspress.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174692768749743876.post-47581323604504822762010-06-10T07:23:00.001-07:002010-06-10T07:23:49.349-07:00<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0218/1224264699840.html">http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0218/1224264699840.html</a><br /><br />by <strong>BELINDA MCKEON</strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1174692768749743876-4758132360450482276?l=mysteriouspress.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174692768749743876.post-43053104691260585532010-06-10T07:20:00.000-07:002010-06-10T07:22:32.573-07:00<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fx5McC-_Tk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fx5McC-_Tk</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1174692768749743876-4305310469126058553?l=mysteriouspress.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174692768749743876.post-44246174866146687712009-12-03T14:16:00.000-08:002009-12-03T14:21:43.840-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YvX4yInmxp4/Sxg4_Fx0AWI/AAAAAAAACOQ/ydhaxc6GGO8/s1600-h/Pittsburgh_Post_Gazette_front_page.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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