FOR YOU...

THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU:

I am in Los Angeles (where I grew up) until May 12th. I will make temporary items for sale while I am here:

If you give me $68.33 I will take an old-friend out to dinner or lunch. I will take a photo of the both of us together. I will mail you the photo, tell you what we ate, and briefly describe our history as friends. For each purchase this will be used for a different friend.

If you give me $100 I will buy a throw away camera, go to the beach, and photograph consecutive wave crashes. I will try to make the same exact photograph each time. I will take the film out of the camera and mail it back to you so you can develop it.

For every $1 you give me I will look out at the Pacific Ocean for one minute for you. If you give me $1 I will watch the ocean for one minute. If you give me $345 I will watch the ocean for 345 minutes. I will send you the exact times and location I did this, as well as a photograph. If you give me under $10 I will send you this via email. If you give me more than $10 I will send it via postal mail.

(please look at this link - it's also about Los Angeles)

If you give me $1,626 I will go to the small Okinawan island called Taketomi and send you an envelope filled with star-sand (don't worry, I've been there before, I know where to go). I will send it from there.

For this project, anyone can make a donation until I reach the amount. So, anyone can donate to this, and I will put how much I have raised here. You can donate any amount, but, I will only send you the sand if you donate over $100. Thank You!

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE HAVE DONATED TO SEND YOU STAR SAND:

Irina Denison
Joseph Johnson
MyEasyTV.com

I AM TRYING THIS NEW THING:

If you give me $20 I will go to Coney Island in New York with an envelope and fill it with sand and mail it to you from there. It's not star sand, but it's still Coney Island.

Monkey Gallery was sent Coney Island sand from Coney Island to New Zealand.

If you give me $1,335 I will go as far south as I can go in South America and take a photograph of the ocean for you. This will probably be in Tierra del Fuego. I will send you the photograph from there.

SO FAR I HAVE RAISED $0 TO SEND YOU THE SEA FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

If you give me $917 I will go to where Matt Elliott told me to go in an e-mail: Newfoundland, Canada. He told me I should try to go there because it is the furthest east and that I would love it there. I trust him. I will go there and I will go as far east as possible. I will take a photograph of the sea. I will mail it to you from there.

If you give me $3,143 I will for as far away as possible. I live in New York. I will go to Perth, Australia the farthest distance from New York on Earth. I will mail you a photograph of me standing in New York. I will then mail you a photograph of me standing in Perth. I'm a little sad right now and I would kind of like to escape, so if you are thinking about getting one of these and not sure what you want, please take in consideration my emotions and pick this one.

SO FAR I HAVE RAISED $0 TO GO AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE

If you give me $250 I will read the Little Prince in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in the middle of a work day. I will send you photograph documentation of this. (or: if you give me $1000 I will buy as many copies of the Little Prince as I can and give them away to people leaving the New York Stock Exchange after a days work)

If you give me between $100 to $400 I will find a moon tree and kiss it for you. Do you know what a moon tree is? In 1971 Stuart Roosa was the Apollo 14 Command Module Pilot while his comrades were down on the moon. Stuart, a former smoke jumper, had brought with him hundreds of tree seeds. He wanted to take them to the moon. He wanted to do this because he knew that when he planted the seeds on Earth they would grow as tall as they could because they would want to return to the moon. I will send you a photograph of me kissing a moon tree.

There are many moon trees. For each purchase I will go to a different moon tree. I will stop selling them once I went to all the moon trees. The more you give me the farther I will go. They are all over everywhere!

Jenn Wong has purchased a photo of me kissing a moon tree in Philadelphia on March 7, 2008.

If you give me $30 I will buy $30 worth of cookies and give them away to people I find in the street. I will send you an email with the details of where I bought the cookies, and the exact minute and date I started giving them away and the exact minute I gave away the last one.

HUGE FREE COOKIE DAY ON MAY 3 IN LOS ANGELES. PLEASE PURCHASE THIS TO ADD TO THE FREE COOKIE DAY!!!

Barry Joseph purchased the giving away of cookes and cupcakes from Sugar Sweet and Sunshine on April 1, 2008 from 2:40pm to 2:50pm. Most were given away to workers at Essex Market.

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If you give me $4,444 I will go to the Island of St Helena. I will take a photograph of the sky and mail it to you from there. Nothing else.

If you give me $3 I will send you an empty envelope. It is like sending you nothing. Or atleast, it is sending you something that has traveled a journey that is the distance from me to you.

Jenn Wong has an empty envelope mailed from New York to New York.
Philip Hucknall has an empty envelope mailed from New York to Glasgow.
Gold Joinee Abad has an empty envelope mailed from New York to Madrid.
Chad Cheney has an empty envelope mailed from New York to Battle Ground, WA.
Simon Gibson has two empty envelopes mailed from New York to the United Kingdom.

MAIL ME AN EMPTY ENVELOPE

This one has changed:

If you give me $2,443 I will rent a car in Iceland and find you three things. I will find you a lava rock and send it to you. I will find the Aurora Borealis for you and send you a photograph of it. I will find you the best hot spring, and I will sit in it for you. I will send you a photograph of me sitting in it. I will mail these from there. (I will still also try to drive around the entire island)

SO FAR I HAVE RAISED $101 TO SEND YOU THREE THINGS FROM ICELAND FROM THE FOLLOWING:

Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

If you give me $437 I will go to Seattle and hang out with my best friend, Naseem. I will send you a photograph of us hanging out everyday. If we fight, and it is inevitable that we will, I will make a video of us apologizing to each other and explaining our position as to why we are angry at the other and how we will resolve the situation. I will post this on Youtube for you. Maybe we won't fight! But we probably will.

If you give me $30 I will walk around New York, and the first homeless person I see I will buy him or her whatever he or she wants to eat (as long as it is less than $30). I will mail you back the exact change (minus the paypal fee and the cost of the postage stamp) with the receipt for the food and the name of the person who ate it.

Kris Efland bought a really big Kentucky Fried Chicken meal and an orange drink from Nedick's for Regional Keith on W 33rd and Broadway on February 24, 2008.
Joie Mikitson bought a bunch of groceries from Park Avenue Food Court for Francis on E 10th and 4th Ave on February 25, 2008.
Bart Schouten bought a pizza full of every topping except anchovies from Johns' of Bleeker Street for Marvin who was in the Houston train stop for the 1 on February 28, 2008.

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If you give me $1,412 I will go to Japan, go to a mountain, find a buddhist monk, and share a cup of tea with him or her. I will mail you something from in or around the temple. I don't know what it is yet, I have to find it there.

UPDATE: While in Japan I will also learn how to brew the best Japanese green tea. I will study hard and perfect it. I will then make YOU a cup of green tea! You will either have to come to New York, meet me in Japan, or pay for my plane ticket to meet you wherever you are.

If you give me $1 I will sit in silence and think about you for one minute. I will send you an email when I start this, and I'll send you another email when I'm done.

I thought about Moisés Horta from 4:22am to 4:23am on February 14, 2008 in New York.
I thought about Pete Anderson from 4:56pm to 4:57pm on February 22, 2008 in New York.
I thought about Vijaychandran Veerachandran from 7:08pm to 7:09pm on February 22, 2008 in New York.

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If you give me the total of the above (excluding the independent study fees) I will send you all (except under certain circumstances which we will discuss) the art-work I make during my graduate school studies. I just got accepted into the Bard MFA program. It is expensive. I am poor. If you just buy one semester, you will get the art made for that semester. If you pay for all three, you will get all three. Please email me if you are interested. This is an edition of 3, one for each semester. Get it while it lasts.

I will also be accepting small donations by anyone. For every donation I will send you a unique edition of one art-work on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. It will be a conceptual piece and the paper will contain instructions as to how the piece should be carried out. This will only be for donations $20 or more.

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SO FAR I HAVE RAISED $151.32 TO GO TO BARD FROM THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:

Victoria Greenacre
Rachel Reynolds
Zahira Tiara Shafiq

If you give me $10 I will take a photograph of the sky just for you. That means I will go outside, shoot a photograph of the sky, print it as a 8.5" x 11" full color laser jet print, write the date on it, fold it into an envelope, and mail it to you. Oh, and I will also delete the file so that you will have the only existing copy of that photograph. It's just for you.

Gary Rutz has a sky from March 3, 2008.
Allison Godat has a sky from March 3, 2008.
Marcelo Kertesz has a sky from March 3, 2008.

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This is just like the previous one: If you give me $10 I will take a photograph of a mailbox in New York, print it as an 8.5" x 11" full color laser jet print, fold it into an envelope, write where it is on the back of the envelope, and mail it from the same mailbox. I will mail you a photograph of a mailbox from that mailbox. Each purchase will be from a different mailbox. I will stop this once I've mailed one from every mailbox in New York.

Gary Rutz was mailed a mailbox from a mailbox on Delancey and Orchard.
Josh Loewen was mailed a mailbox from a mailbox on Astor and Lafayette.
Adrienne Price was mailed a mailbox from Delancey and Suffolk.

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If you give me $630 I will give it to my landlord for the month's rent. I won't work for one month and I'll send you an email everyday of what I did and why it was important (unless I am away from a computer). Actually, I am going to need some more money for food and utilities. I am going to raise this to $1000. (NOTE: this is one person a month, if you buy this you will be given a specific month). I will also print out the emails I sent you everyday and mail it to you as a small edition of one artist book.

If you give me $250 I will buy you a PO Box in New York for a whole year. I will mail you the key. Throughout the year I will mail letters and things to the PO Box. I am hoping that you don't live in New York, and that where ever you are in the world you will know that there is a small PO Box in New York amassing with little things for you. You will come to New York before the year is up and collect the little pile. Since PO Boxes are small, it will be a small collection, so I will only mail things when I feel there is something special to send.

Nigel Maister has a PO Box at Cooper Station in New York until 2/28/09
Jessica Shade has a PO Box at Grand Central Station in New York until 2/28/09
Bernice McDonnell has a PO Box at the Knickerbocker Station until (they didn't give me an expiration date - I assume one year from 3-14-08)
Marloes Lasker has a PO Box at the Knickerbocker Station until (they didn't give me an expiration date - I assume one year from 3-14-08)

This one is really serious. I'm scared to do this. But I think I have to. If you give me $10 I will think really hard of someone who I need to apologize to. I will write them a letter of apology. I will make two copies of the letter. I will send one to you and one to the person who I am apologizing to.

Hana Hutchings owns an apology letter to Laura Pearson.
Hyunhye Seo owns an apology letter to Uta Barth.
Brent Goldman owns an apology letter to Jim Isermann.

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If you give me $1,999 I will take a ferry from Spain to Morocco. I will mail you a photograph of the port in Spain looking out at sea from a Spanish mailbox. I will then mail you a photograph of the port in Morocco looking out at sea from a Moroccan mailbox. You can glue the backs together when you get both of them and it will be like a three dimensional view.

If you give me $800 I will take a train somewhere to ride a hot-air balloon. I will take polaroids from up in the sky and send it to you. Wendy from Ooga Booga is worried about my Carbon Footprint in all of these projects. She is right! That is why I won't fly on an airplane. I will send it from up in the sky! I will drop the stamped envelope from the sky and hope that someone will find it and put it in a mailbox. I will also make a video of me dropping the envelope and send you a DVD incase the polaroids never arrive. (look up balloon mail in the Siege of Paris!)

I think I will have to figure out the Carbon Offsetting price of all my projects now and figure them in.

If you give me $5 i will write down a memory I haven't thought about it a while and mail it to you. I will think really hard for this. I will only write down things I haven't thought about in over a year. I might have to use objects to instigate these memories. I guess I should also tell you what strategy I used in finding that memory.

Joe Howansky owns a memory of mine.
Incisioncandy owns a memory of mine.
Ashley Collier owns a memory of mine.
Gregory Theriot owns a memory of mine.
Pedro Cardoso owns a memory of mine.
Vince D'Halluin owns a memory of mine.

If you give me any amount of money I will cash it, put it in my pocket, grab my camera, and walk out my front door not knowing what I will do. I will then travel somewhere for as cheap as possible. I will keep just enough money so that I can get back. I will send you all the receipts and documentation of this. This is for any amount. If you give me $1 maybe I will walk out my door and buy a chocolate bar and then come home. If you give me $123 maybe I will get on a greyhound bus headed for who knows where. I will go somewhere and I will send you photos of there.

Jack Lane has bought a trip to Coney Island at dawn on 3/9/08.
Matthew Moore has bought a trip to Roosevelt Island on 3/13/08.
Heather Clitheroe has bought a trip to Poughkeepsie on 3/15/08.

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More will come, some will go, some will change, some I will stop selling once someone buys it.

NOTE: Some people have been having problems paying. While for others it is working fine. If you are having problems you can just paypal me money manually to my email address: hikarusaru (at) gmail (dot) com. Remember, please include the name of what you are purchasing, and your address.

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