postcards w/cities being blended
The other thing I was thinking of is if the
old medium is in a modern way then perhaps using
what a postcard is (an impression of a place) to
find comparisons between Helsinki and Toronto:
the basis of our communication
ie. Helsinki is by the sea / Toronto is by a lake
Mabye some sort of collage between the postcards we receive...
(an extension of the "city recipie" [jm] wrote a while back)

postcards w/messages
I like the idea of sending out postcards with messages.
What will the message be : will it have a theme to it?
Could we have outside friends send messages... hopefully
getting them involved in the idgrid postings...?

I haven't been able to send [d] a text message overseas yet...


posted by [j] at 06:54

postcards w/ digital
What if you could write a text message send it and that message would be printed and sent as a postcard?

postcards cont.
Related to what I wrote below about getting postcards:
check here. (The date is 2000, because that's when that stuff was written, but it has been posted only recently.)
posted by [jm.] at 10:50

"postcards"
About postcards, [d] sent me a few last
summer from Canada (complete with drawings...)
and I saved them in a little box full of Canadian
things. Can't throw those away!

hmm, I wonder how we could bridge this digital
communication with a physical card... (any ideas?)

let the flags fly

(or we could send idgrid members free scary mugs



posted by [j] at 09:53

::saving letters
I'd save letters if I got any.
I've sent a few letters this year.
I'll probably send a few this month.
I have one friend who sends me letters now and then.

I throw away birthday cards when they're in my way, when
organising all other paper materials. Same goes for Christmas
cards. Some I save, but it is more up to chance than anything
coherent.

I save paper.
I have drawers and books full of random scribblings,
beginnings of ideas etc.

::personal interests of [jm]
On a broader scale my ambition is for text to meet images.
Text is never just text it also requires a graphic design.
A magazine or even a book is about much more than words
and images it is about the form, the texture, the layout and
the words&images.

So I'm interested in experimenting with meetings between
words and images.

I'm interested in whether the world is becoming smaller - as people
keep on saying - or vaster. To me the world seems to be becoming
(uncontrollably) vaster and broader. All the time I'm learning
about places that barely exist to me. I'm getting acquainted and
learning about people far away from me.

One of the arguments of the world becoming smaller is of course the
fact that places around the world are beginning to resemble each
other. But is that resemblance mainly superficial? A McDo in Shanghai
does not change the people - on the other hand it is something common
I can discuss - like a while ago when I had an online discussion on
Subway with a Texan and a Canadian. But even there some cultural
difference exists.

New communications devices are of course changing things:
now it isn't enough to cooperate with people in my home town,
now I'm collaborating with people in Canada.

I've been working on a magazinelike project (with [j]'s girlfriend)
called PARAGUAY for almost a year now and the issues
mentioned above and culture shock have gradually become central
to the theme of the work.

It is an attempt capture a glimpse of the loosening world from a
subjective point of view. The theme won't be in your face more
inbetween the lines.

The internet at its best gives the surfer the opportunity to glimpse
at various parts of the world.

::postcards
Postcards are glimpses to other cities. Image + text.
I'm interested in getting postcards from all over the world, where
people would write about their immediate surroundings. What is
happening around them as they writing? This is related both to the
letters-topic and my interests.
They'd be like small fictions of those cities.
Another of my interests is real cities as imaginary places.
posted by [jm.] at 07:50