I just came across the website of a very unusual and interesting art project, and thought our Mean Readers might want to know more about it: In the Realsnailmail site (browse here) you can find the following information:
RealSnailMail is a research project developed by Vicky Isley and Paul Smith (aka boredomresearch) at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University. The worlds first messaging service at http://www.realsnailmail.net harnesses the potential of diminutive molluscs to deliver email messages. Your message travels at the speed of light to our collection point where it waits….. and waits for a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipped snail to pass by. Once collected your message is lugged around on the back of a snail until such time as it happens by the dispatch centre and is finally forwarded to its recipient.
boredomresearch will use this Blog to publish this project’s research and development - including information on RFID technology, snails and inspirations and experimentations that have contributed to the making of this artwork.
If you are among those (me included :-) ) who can hardly wait to participate, information will be available here
Ain't this lots of fun???
4 comentários:
Mandei um snailmail lá ontem! Tinha a esperança que a Muriel que estava vazia, pegasse. Mas me parece que ele/ela é uma lesma lerda! Não pegou nenhum email até agora!!!
Vou tentar mandar também, pra ver o que acontece...(Também fiquei com peninha da Muriel...)
Acabei de mandar o e-mail, Coca! Vamos ver se vai, vamos ver se a Muriel tem sorte, rsrsrs...
Adorei a definição do projeto: "The World's First Webmail Service Using Live Snails". Achei que a brincadeira é legal porque força a gente a...slow down(we move too fast, rsrsrs)!!!.
Tb mandei um e estou torcendo to be picked up by Austin, for obvious reasons. FUN!!!
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