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  "path": "/posts/thoughts-on-postcards",
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  "tags": [
    "postcards"
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  "title": "Thoughts on Postcards",
  "description": "A love-postcard to postcards.",
  "publishedAt": "2022-10-21T08:50:19.000Z",
  "textContent": "I've long admired and played with postcards. For me there's an art to every aspect of creating and sending them — designing, choosing, writing, drawing, doodling, stamping — each of which could stand books' worth of elaboration.\n\nArt is, in my humble opinion, at its greatest when limitlessly exploring a limited space, and a postcards provide plenty of just this kind of freeing limitation. They can be heartfelt and genuine precisely _because_ they don't immediately invite a reply (unlike practically all other interpersonal communication), they invite novelty (like Mr. Bingo's hilarious Hate Mail, or Lupi & Posavec's beautiful Dear Data) _because_ they are so simple and (literally!) inflexible.\n\nEven now I'm slowly building a microsite gallery[^1] for the postcards my friend Claire sends me whenever she travels. Every one of them contains just one message: \"Shut up, JP\" in the local language. I love them.\n\n{{< postcard shutup-singapore >}}\n\nI honestly think I'll always enjoy playing with postcards, in one form or another. If you'd ever like to tell me about your appreciation of them, a postcard you've seen or enjoyed receiving or sending, do reach out by email (I have a standing invitation)! …and if you'd like to send me a postcard you only need write me an email and ask for my address.\n\n[^1]: I completed it! You can find it at shutup.jp 😄",
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