Not Geocaching OR Letterboxing... Its...???

[trothoehler]

Hello All!

 

I was hoping the 'collective' could help me out on a question of mine. I'm looking for the name/website of a particular geo game. Have you seen the movie Amelie and how she sends that garden gnome around the world to have photos taken of it and sent back to her house? I remember a website that caters to this but again, I have no idea what it was. Must have been all those twinkies in high school.

 

thanks for the time!

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

 

Oh yeah, basically the site is a registry for people with items they want sent around by postal mail. One would sign up to the particular event and (according to some order that i forget) eventually it gets mailed to you. You would take the object and follow whatever the event intructions were (go take a picture in a bar with object, pic with your friends, etc etc) and then mail it on to the next participant.

[+Marky]

I think it would work just fine.

 

--Marky

[+bigredmed]

Well if the TB forum is any example, the TB would get stolen or side tracked before it left the area.

 

By appointment to the Court of HRM Queen Mikki I.

[FISUR]

The closest site I could think of is the one for Flat Stanley. Stanley is a flat cutout figure that school children mail out. I heard about Stanley years ago, but I have never seen him. He seems like a guy who really gets around.

[enfanta]

http://internettrash.com/users/sprkythdvl/gnome.htm

 

I couldn't find many pages when I searched for Gnome Liberation Front and GPS on google.

 

Whoops, wait, just reread your post. Sounds like you need to search under "mail art" and that's a reeeeeeeeally big topic. I'll keep looking.

[enfanta]

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:Egg3UdOPjeoC:www.mun.ca/muse/entertainment/index.php%3Fitem%3D5+mail+art+projects+with+travelling+objects&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

 

(yick! will that link even work??)

 

This is from that site. (I searched google with "mail art projects with travelling objects")

 

The focus of the website is to get people involved in LMAOs (or Land Mail Art Objects.) An LMAO can either be a travelling LMAO or a collection-type LMAO. A travelling LMAO is where the creator sends something to the first person signed up on the list, who then sends it to the next person and so on. A collection-type LMAO is where all the participants send something to the creator, who then compiles the objects. LMAO topics range from the serious, such as the “Losing a Parent Journal,” where participants add their experiences of losing a loved one to a journal, to the crazy — such as the ever-popular “Test The Post” series. Here, people send unpackaged plates, mousetraps, or even toast in the mail just to see if it will get through.

 

Exchanges are the most recently developed section of nervousness, but have quickly become the most popular and successful part of the site (almost 12,000 hits at the time of this writing.) Exchanges happen between only two people and involve either an exchange of art works (art cards, photos, etc.) or, more frequently, an exchange involving commercial goods (CDs, books, movies.) Some users see nervousness as a place where they can easily get something they’ve been trying to find, others see it as a place where they can get rid of stuff they don’t want anymore. In both cases, the idea that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure proves to be very true.

 

Nervousness.org was launched on June 16, 2001, and has grown massively in both number of members and number of exchanges. Partially inspired by 1000journals.com, nervousness was originally created to enable people to give journals to each other without ever having to meet in real life. One of the creators of nervousness had been attempting to meet with another person so that they could exchange a journal. Yet they couldn't manage to meet up in person, no matter how hard they tried.

 

The idea of being able to mail journals to other people meant it would be easier for journals to get passed around, and that people in many different places could more easily participate. The idea quickly expanded to include other LMAOs, leading to the creation of many different art projects.

 

Nervousness.org also gives users ways in which to exchange ideas: forums and Q&A. In the forums, experienced artists help those newly acquainted with the idea of LMAOs by posting words of wisdom, and suggestions on how to create a successful object. Q&A’s are also a great way for people involved in exchanges or LMAOs to contact one another, either for information about the object, or simply to learn more about somebody who lives halfway across the world.

 

So, don’t try and stop someone from putting a piece of toast in a mailbox — they’re probably just trying to help out a fellow starving artist.

[trothoehler]

Thanks so much for your help, definately got some leads to track down now...

 

thanks again,

 

Beez