Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How to be greatly surprising to an inquisitive stranger

Step 1, Find a piece of nice writing material. Colourful paper bordered with cellophane and tied with ribbons is such an example.

Step 2, Write an entertaining story, an exciting fact or a philosophical question upon it. Something you want to share with the world

Step 3, Go to an art exhibit, a fancy cafe or a public place

Step 4, Stealthily place the message in a noticeable spot without anyone seeing you

Step 5, Leave without anyone knowing you left something behind

Step 6, Watch from a distance until someone finds it

Step 7, Enjoy their reaction

I shall do this tomorrow and report back to you what happened. Please do this too. It will make you feel better and will spread goodness throughout your city. Make sure it's anonymous. 

1 comment:

  1. You never reported back. You should have.

    This is the sort of thing that I have always almost thought of doing, but not so straightforwardly, I guess. You should read Hakim Bey's work about temporary autonomous zones and poetic terrorism.

    I've always meant to stick post-its around campus and put messages in bottles and leave them in puddles.

    David Horvitz has interesting ideas, too.

    I like to drop pennies for people to find. Once I actually saw a child discover one that I'd dropped (usually I try to be sneakier than that, but I was waiting on a bench anyways). It's a little bit magical, isn't it?

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