The Snailr Project

My Snailr postcards arrived! - gilest

annapickard — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:32:14 -0700

Another! Hurray!

Snailr by name...

annapickard — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:11:59 -0700

I must apologise for my quietness on the snailr front. People are still recieving cards - although I’m aware many haven’t arrived at all. Which is sucky beacuse a) I know I sent one to every one of the 160+ people on my list and b) I got so panicky about getting postcards into mailboxes when I got the opportunity/found a mailbox near a station that I forgot to put the small number notation I was marking on some of them and didn’t take a picture of many.

And now we’re in the middle of moving house, and collecting all the lovely emailed pictures, links, blogposts, tweets and flickr pics that people have sent me of their postcards becomes a more onerous task by the day. I think it all might have to wait until we’re safely on that other continent, then I can spend some time packaging it all up like a christmas present.

Le sigh.

Still, many many thanks to everyone who has sent me a picture, and an enormous pout to people who haven’t received a card - I only wish I’d taken pictures of them all so I could send it digitally to you instead. Bother. Still, that’s the beauty of the postal system, and a lesson learnt for next time.

Meanwhile, I’ve included the picture of the postcard sent to Marie Nash at the top of the post here because it happens to include one of my favourite of all Bobbie’s illustrations for the cards (he did about half of the front, I did the others), and this link: in which JonnyB proudly displays the card I sent him, which , I am ashamed to say, was mainly a riff on the current anti-meth campaign in the heartland states of America being quite a lot like a favourite oven chips ad campaign from the eighties. “Mummy or meth?” indeed.

Maddie likes her card. Her cats are fashionably unimpressed.

annapickard — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:13:58 -0700

Maddie likes her card. Her cats are fashionably unimpressed.

All the way from the US of A | Nose in a book

annapickard — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:08:20 -0700

All the way from the US of A | Nose in a book:

Hurray! And still they arrive. Blimey, these are taking a while.

Beleaguered Squirrel: Slow

annapickard — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:28:25 -0700

Beleaguered Squirrel: Slow:

A beautiful post detailing the confusion that is created when you decide not to write your name (or any identifying thing) on your postcards…

Dame lo que quiero: Snailr Project (or I am quite stupid)

annapickard — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:44:51 -0700

Dame lo que quiero: Snailr Project (or I am quite stupid):

A postcard that went ALL THE WAY TO INDIA.

This was very exciting for me. AND for the recipient, as it turned out, so happy happy happy all round.

my snailr postcard! (by Maria Vassileva) Oh! It was one that...

annapickard — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:58:38 -0700

my snailr postcard! (by Maria Vassileva)

Oh! It was one that must have been tucked behind another for it has neither tagline nor picture on it. Tut tut Anna! Ach, it matters little, because I love so much what Maria’s don with it here with magnets. It’s perfect, and the only decoration it needs.

(back side here)

Snailr Postcard… Received (by The Mark) aaaaaand a link to...

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:40:58 -0700

Snailr Postcard… Received (by The Mark)

aaaaaand a link to the front

and on the back, he says, it says…

“Two separate things were intriguing about the dozen-mile-long stretch of houses stretched out along the road outside Memphis about 20 miles. They were virtually identical to begin with. And then each had a small green sign with the word ‘JESUS’ pounded into the ground outside.

The first thing was that it was mixed in with lots of local election signs for mayors, judges and things. ‘Pigwank for County Judge’ ‘Smeg for City Council’ - which just begged the question, yes, this Jesus fellow has the votes, but what are his policies on rubbish collection?

Secondly at the end of the strip of houses was a sign advertising a ‘Christian Revival’ at the local church. If this is them UNREVIVED, we’re all doomed.”

The snailr project: postcard 48 (front) (by Caroline) (and the...

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:33:16 -0700

The snailr project: postcard 48 (front) (by Caroline)

(and the back)

Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/ngrhllj - Uploaded by...

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:24:06 -0700

Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/ngrhllj - Uploaded by notcontrary

Mary in Toronto with her mystery card - via twitter

The snail mail rail trail - meish dot org: life, unfolding

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:00:31 -0700

The snail mail rail trail - meish dot org: life, unfolding:

My lovely sister posts her picture of her card, and is lovely.

Monkeys in Space » Blog Archive » Snailr 73

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:16:45 -0700

Monkeys in Space » Blog Archive » Snailr 73:

We’re NUMBER ONE! Says some bank in Minnesota on card 73…

the snailr project // saw both sides of the grain truck (by...

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:19:01 -0700

the snailr project // saw both sides of the grain truck (by holgate) Nick Sweeney receives one of the Snailr resident artist’s (cheers, boj) more dramatic illustrations.

mighty inspiring « le petit hiboux Another lovely blogpost...

annapickard — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:08:45 -0700

mighty inspiring « le petit hiboux

Another lovely blogpost from a Snailree (no, that doesn’t work) - and I will, will properly - start collecting these on this blog in earnest this week, it is top of my list.

Once we’d finally worked out a way of printing photos on...

annapickard — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:51:45 -0700

Once we’d finally worked out a way of printing photos on the road, I went a little mad with power…

My snailr postcard (by octodonta)

the snailr project – postcard 90! : Bojates! - from...

annapickard — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:55:03 -0700

the snailr project – postcard 90! : Bojates! - from Chicago, on the interconnectednes of things

The Snailr Project - Postcard 91 - Doing it Wrong

annapickard — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:38:15 -0700

The Snailr Project - Postcard 91 - Doing it Wrong:

A postcard recieved by Missing in Iraq…

Cows on the road, glacier park, Montana | Flickr - Photo...

annapickard — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:59:31 -0700

Cows on the road, glacier park, Montana | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Memphis at night (by Anna Pickard)

annapickard — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:20:00 -0700

Memphis at night (by Anna Pickard)

"Upstairs was once a noisy brothel; a couple of barflies have apparently turned out to be ghosts. And..."

annapickard — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:19:00 -0700

“Upstairs was once a noisy brothel; a couple of barflies have apparently turned out to be ghosts. And there you have it, just another all-American dry-goods-store-turned-watering-hole, where God knows how many broken hearts have been avenged and vendettas executed.”

- Ernestine and Hazel’s - Esquire