An unusual combination of photography and mail art: cameramail!
On November 30th, 2003, an oversized postcard holding one disposable camera and a roll of 800 ASA, 27 exposure film was mailed from Lafayette, IN to Santa Monica, CA. A few days later, the postman knocked on the door of my friend and found him answering in his underwear. He did not understand the statement: "The Post Master wants to know why you are mailing cameras."
So many storytelling ideas come from this. Chain mail - send a camera with a couple of images, ask the next to take a couple more and send it on. Horror story - one could share spooky images, in a collaborative, unsettling riff on "I Found A Digital Camera..."
(thanks to Jesse Walker)
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