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Answering Your Mail on Camera

Letters · · by · 1 min read · black and white, family, open movies, photocopy, scissors

Answering Your Mail on Camera

We tried answering letters on camera. It went fine until the cat arrived. The clip below is what we play while editing.

This letter arrived in a hand-decorated envelope with three different stamps and a drawing of a cat on the flap. We answered it on paper first, and we are sharing it here with permission.

Keep writing to us. The mailbox is the best part of the week.

If you are reading this at the collective, the good scissors are in the drawer marked "do not take the good scissors". Please do not take the good scissors.

We keep a guest book by the door. Some people write their name, some write a poem, and one person drew the entire floor plan of the shop from memory. It is the best zine we have never printed.

Author

Mara Kessler

Founder of the Toner Riot print nights. Keeps the copier alive with a screwdriver, a prayer, and a very specific brand of isopropyl wipes.

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  1. Kit Moreno

    Is there a way to do this with legal-size paper? That’s all our copier takes.

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  2. Aurelie Fontaine

    The photos are great. Is that the laundromat on Elm?

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  3. Jonah Mbeki

    Love this. Any chance of a workshop on it at the next print night?

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  4. Hana Sato

    Do you trade? I have a perzine about bus drivers I think you would like.

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  5. Ines Duarte

    We tried this at our library print night and it worked first time.

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    1. Mara KesslerAuthor

      Seconded. A workshop would be brilliant.

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  6. Ben Achterberg

    The pull quote is going on my studio wall.

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    1. Mara KesslerAuthor

      Thanks for reading. Let us know how it turns out.

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  7. Kit Moreno

    I laughed out loud at the part about the good scissors.

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  8. Ollie Brennan

    Love this. Any chance of a workshop on it at the next print night?

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