Last fall, after figuring out the backwards combination lock, I recieved the first handwritten personal correspondence mail I'd recieved in a really long time.

As someone generally able to tell if the charity solicitation mail's return address is handwritten or just a tricksy font, (and this is quite a fuckass cool and very impressive trick to have under your belt of tricks, I might add), this excited me a lot.

However, I thought to myself of the notion that maybe, just maybe, I should plunge headlong into the grand technological frontier on my massive Cyberhorse, its mane beautifully flashing with technological superinformationway energy, our spirits envigorated with the WorldWide Electro-eCommunicaNet's gusty and sweet smelling breezes. Instead of just sending a handwritten letter back, fulfilling my end of the correspondence just as my forefathers did decades and centuries before while wearing suits or some shit, I'd totally make a very very hastily produced video for them. That way, I thought, Hey, maybe I'd get more awesome mail, which is awesome. And plus Hey, where's the place I can get small amounts of stamps without having to stuff eighty of those "loathsome Sacajawhoovees?" as local AM talk radio could maybe be calling them at, anyway?

Thus,

Video Reciept of Correspondence: To Georgi.

As context, prior to creation of this project, Georgi and I had discussed the likeihood that in the awesome future, paper correspondence will cease to exist. Unless there's a big nostalgia market (which there probably will be), and unless you want to send something small and weird. Like, for example, bits of string. Because your letter was maybe was talking about "What color string would you like me to use on my cross-stitching project?" or something, which will, well into the future, still be a common question to ask in a letter.

Soon thereafter, I receive a letter. Enclosed, (extra postage negligable (for the doubters)):

String! Cool,

And hence its inclusion in the first video, sharing company with a series of decontextualized animation class assignments, a nearby hat, a fake cigarette, a Swiss Army knife with Swedish writing, a half-tacky half-successful photomontage of "this is school so far," and a soundtrack of remixed Sonic the Hedgehog 1 songs and hers and Danny Fluffbova's Taming of the Shrew English project.

, And Video Receipt of Correspondence: To Emily

For this, Emily sent a letter (on the wrong type of paper dumbass) in which she complained about cold coffee being lame. Since I agree that, yes, cold coffee is totally lame, I thought it an apt theme of the video. Roommate Joe was conscripted, and footage was taken mostly when we were eating food.

Both are viewable (hopefully) on makeshift website here. Also, other people have sent me mail, and I've been late to respond, but don't worry, I'll probably get to it as soon as I can