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June 20, 2001
The Envelope Project
I started a mini-scale project of a larger idea recently. I created ten sets of thirty dated envelopes. The dates start on June 16th and run though until thirty days later in July. I handed them out to the following people:
- Charles, an ex-architect
- Patrick, a milliner
- Kate, an unemployed information architect
- Jersey, a jewelry maker
- Jersey's fiance, a waiter at 42 degrees
- Steve, an Englishmen and writer
- Millicent a director of marketing for a performances group
- Don, my neighbor and ersatz engineer
- Teri, a recently graduated design student
- Monte, a software engineer
The idea is that every day each individual will place one item in the envelope and choose to leave it open or seal it. They will return the envelopes to me at the end of the thirty-day period.
The results will be dealt with, but the less information the participants have, the better.
Teri already told me that she had figured out a way to piss me off. She was going to save the envelope as the thing she was going to save, thus leaving me with 30 empty envelopes. She wisely chose to participate as the sketchy rules implied.
Results to follow in thirty days.
Posted by tdotjay at June 20, 2001 10:09 AM
