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Brave Su's Scavenger-Hunt! :-)

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Swap Coordinator:Melas (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Zines 
Number of people in swap:2
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:October 8, 2009
Date items must be sent by:March 31, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Those are your tasks:

  • You go somewhere you have never ever been, address a person you don’t know and ask for something, some very little item: a signature, a handkerchief, a receipt, a penny…
  • Do something you have never ever done before.
  • Go to the Cathedral, light a candle there and send me another one (pay or donate for them!); if there is (free) tourist-material, send it; nose around about the priest (current or historical) and send whatever you can come up with about him as well.
  • Go to the UNESCO World Heritage nearby (http://www.derwentvalleymills.org/), learn something there and teach me something.
  • Write me a list of common things and differences about Derby and its two partner-citys.
  • Introduce me to one famous son or daughter of Derby; pick one event of his/ her life and do something with it.
  • Introduce me to the ghosts of your city (http://www.derbygaol.com/); pick one and do something with it.
  • Go to a craft-market or christmas-market where you can do something - not just eat yummie stuff, but handcraft something (make a candle? bind a basket?…) and send it!
  • Get Corey to make one page of ...
  • ...the "zinish thingy" you write about your scavenger-hunt! :-)

That should be more than enough for your first Scavenger-Hunt! :-)

To give further explanation:

  • You can put how much time and effort on each task as you want to; you can do it how deeply or cursory you want to (I tried to set it up that way, assuming you have other things to do in your life, but once you do something, you MIGHT get carried away ;-) )
  • When I write „do something with it“, I mean anything: You could write something, draw, paint, zentangle, take pictures, collect items you put into your zine – it’s completely up to you.

Have fun! :-)

Discussion

TangleCrafts 10/11/2009 #

And here are Evil Meike's return challenges:

THE BOOK PART
Go to a library & a bookshop...

  • Obtain a free item from each place (e.g. bookmark, flyer, leaflet).

  • In the fiction sections of both bookshop & library, make a note of the title and author of the first book filed under 'A', and the last book filed under 'Z'.

  • In an area of the bookshop/library that you would expect to find something of least interest to you, scan the shelves and pick out a book that you don't know but has appealed to you just because of it's spine. Make a note of title & author, and what made you pick it from the shelf.

Other book-related tasks:

  • Buy the cheapest book you can find (e.g. library sale, charity shop, flea market etc). Make a note of title, author, and where purchased. Send your partner the receipt (and the book, if it is not too heavy).

  • Find an old book (ie nothing that can still be bought new) that bears any reference to anything postal-related in the title, e.g. post, mail, envelope, stamp etc. You don't have to buy it, but make a note of the book's details, & the place where you discovered it.

THE POSTAL PART

  • Go to your local Post Office & obtain something free-but-functional (e.g. luggage tag, airmail labels, customs labels).

  • Hunt down an item of 'postal paraphernalia' – it can be anything except postcards or postage stamps (too easy!), and it mustn't be available to buy new.

  • Find a stamp from your country that is postmarked within the sign-up & send-by dates of this swap. Send yourself a letter, if you have to! You don't need to send the whole envelope, just the part with postmark & stamp.

  • Approach a random stranger and ask them if they would take part in your survey. Make a note of their answers to the following questions:

  • Did you have penfriends and/or collect stamps, as a child?
  • When was the last time you received a letter that was not a bill, bank statement, junkmail, or anything else official?
  • How many letters have you written in the last month?
  • Do you know which is the nearest postbox to your home?
  • Would you rather receive a personal letter, or an email?

And that's it (you see how less evil I am than you?). Put the results together in some kind of zine or notebook. The end.

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