Emails bombard our inboxes day in and day out, but can you remember the last time you received a handwritten letter?
Artist Ivan Cash wants to remind you how it feels to find a handwritten note waiting inside your mailbox. In the third installment of his collaborative project, "Snail Mail My Email," Cash created a video asking people on the streets of San Francisco to compare emails with letters. For the folks in this clip, the consensus is clear: Handwritten ones always win.
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Cash created "Snail Mail My Email" in 2011 after quitting what he thought was his dream job at an advertising agency in Amsterdam. He told Mashable that though he loved writing letters, he didn't have time for it with a full-time job.
"Emails are great and all, but god there are so many of them, and they are so much less intimate and personal than receiving a letter in the mail," he said. Writing a letter, he added, "is an act of true generosity that says, 'I care about you and took the time to write this for you.'"
So Cash set out to write more letters through "Snail Mail My Email." For 30 days, he and hundreds of volunteers turned strangers' submitted email messages into handwritten notes.
Cash and his team send your first letter, but it's up to you to keep the handwritten correspondence going. The project was enormously successful, with Cash and his team sending more than 10,000 letters. The project even landed him a book deal comprised of photos from the monthlong event.
Image: Ivan Cash
Image: Ivan Cash
Now, two years later, "Snail Mail My Email" has become an annual week-long event. In 2012, project volunteers from all over the world, including students at a grade school in the Czech Republic, sent more than 3,000 letters. This year, Cash said that over 200 people have signed up to write.
"What's amazing about this project to me is the generosity of the volunteers through the years," Cash said, remarking on the time and resources from his collaborators. "To me, it speaks to the essential value of human connection in our increasingly digital world."
You can find more information on Cash's work on his website.
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Image: Snail Mail My Email