FOR YOU...

THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU:

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!

SO FAR I HAVE RAISED $25 FROM THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:

Irina Denison
Joseph Johnson
MyEasyTV.com

If you give me $20 I will go to the Hudson River in Upstate New York with an envelope and find a rock and mail it to you.

Melanie Gable has a rock from the Hudson River.

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 any amount of money I will look at the sky for you for one minute for every $1. I will send you a picture of the sky when I start and when I stop looking at it. For orders under $20 I will send you these photos through email. For orders above $20 I will mail you real prints. I will send you the exact times and location I do this. I will try to think of you the whole time.

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 $450 I will take a Metro North train from Grand Central to New Haven. I will sit in the train station and read J.D. Salinger's 'Franny.' Remember how Franny starts off in the train station for Yale? I will be there. I will mail you photo documentation of this as well as the copy of the book I read for you to read too.

go to the sold page to see past readings.

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.

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.
Janice K Jedrowicz and Jocelyn McAuley purchased cookies from Lark, Auntie Em's, and Julia. They were given away on May 3, 2008 at 1pm at Ooga Booga in Los Angeles.
Sarah Salway purchased the giving away of cupcakes from Sugar Sweet and Sunshine on June 4, 2008 from 2:49 - 2:58pm. The first was given away to a man selling flowers on Ave A, and the last were given away to people in Thompson Square Park.

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CENTERFOLD #2!!!!

If you give me $300 I will fly to Los Angeles to hang out with Centerfold for a few weeks in the fall while Lucky Dragons goes to Australia. This is Centerfold hanging out #2! IF you remember, I hung out with Centerfold in May. She needs me again! She asked for me to come back in cat language (no, not that cat language that is circulating around online, but in the real cat language - meow meow). This is co-sponsored by luke and sarah, lucky dragons, sumi ink club, glaciers of nice, and Echo Park sunshine. For everyday I hangout with Centerfold I will send you a photograph. I will send all the photographs at once at the end. Throughout the hang out session, I will send you random Centerfold paraphernalia, stories, and other things.

If you give me $3 I will send you an empty envelope. It is like sending you nothing. Or at least, 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.
Alessandra Johansson Cavalera has an empty envelope mailed from New York to Stockholm.
Johannes Schardt has an empty envelope mailed from New York to Hamburg.

MAIL ME AN EMPTY ENVELOPE

If you give me $25 I will go on a walk with somebody. I will try to make it an intimate experience. I will let the walk decide itself and see where we end up and where our conversation ends up. I will send you a picture of who I walked with, the location and time we walked, and a small description of the walk and what we talked about.

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 $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.

So far I have raised $25 to go to Japan from:

Yoav Weiss

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 $235.32 TO GO TO BARD FROM THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:

Victoria Greenacre
Rachel Reynolds
Zahira Tiara Shafiq
Renee B Garner
Gary Rutz

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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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.
Stefani Greenwood owns a memory of mine.
Susan Herod owns a memory of mine.
Vikki Fong owns a memory of mine.
Nicole Antebi owns a memory of mine.
d'Auria Groux-Holt owns a memory of mine.
Amara Sar owns a memory of mine.
Katherine Hardy owns a memory of mine.
Ainomaija Inkala owns a memory of mine.
Melanie Gable owns a memory of mine.
Bess Long owns a memory of mine.
Italia Boliver 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.