Do Not Leave Unattended: Dispatches from Ithaca

By Ari | Oct 3, 08 05:06 PM

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Recently I've been doing some work for a fellow blogger, at Randomly Run4istRun (that illustration at the top is based on a photograph by Dorothy O’Connor). She's just launched a new collaborative notebook project called Do Not Leave Unattended, and I'm working on that site too. She sends out notebooks and the recipients get two weeks to fill the next page (or pages), before passing them on. The results so far display a delightful hodge-podge of writing and art. I got one, and passed it on to Shira, and I'm very happy to report that our friend Angela is taking it next. Who knows where it'll go after that?

Yay internets! This is the first time I've done one of these mail-based collaborative projects and it was a lot of fun. I see photos on Flickr all the time of people sending out color-coded packages full of candy and collectibles and art, and other interesting projects, and I always wondered what it would be like to have something like that arrive in my in-box. The answer? It's pretty awesome. I feel like I'm in good company, and I can't wait to see what the finished books look like. Kudos to Jude for creating such a cool project.

Click here to see all of the submissions as they come in... and stay tuned, a new design is coming soon!


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