My collection of “postcards from the Internet” grew again this week when I received another complete-surprise postcard. Take a look at this:
This postcard comes from HïMY SYeD, a Toronto/Vancouver-based historian, Islamic scholar, and… prolific labyrinth artist!
The card features a hand-drawn labyrinth but also the domain name labyrinths.ca, at which there’s a website showing a lot of his work1. He’s built or drawn labyrinths all over the place, calling many of them “outstallations”: hey look, this one’s got the same design as the one on the postcard!
I’m still really loving receiving postcards from the Internet (please send me more!), and I’m starting to feel that maybe I should be “giving back”. I wonder, if I got a stack of postcards and let people put their address into a form if they were happy to receive one, would people want to?
I’ve had several folks talk about how much they enjoy my postcard collection and say that they’d do the same… if only they could afford a PO Box so that they could hide their address2: maybe such folks would be happy to share an address privately to get a single card? Worth some thought.
Footnotes
1 In case you have the same problem I do: the website is intended to be viewed over plain-old http://, but its server is configured to be available over https:// too… so if your browser, like mine, tries to auto-upgrade to https:// where available, then you might find that all the images don’t work (because they’re being served from http:// addresses) until you manually switch back to http://. So yeah… if you visit HïMY’s site and can’t see any images, check your address bar and turn the https:// into http://.
2 I’m only able to do it because I’m using a pay-as-you-go PO Box provider, but I know that’s not at option in every country.