Dear Me . . . . .

[Cowperson]

What if you could send yourself an e-mail scheduled for delivery 50 years from now?

What would you say?

Now, four years after its launch, FutureMe.org has become a quiet phenomenon, receiving nearly 400,000 e-mails, millions of hits and worldwide media attention. (Sly and Patrikios also suspect their idea inspired creative thievery by the makers of "The Lake House," starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, but that may just be normal entrepreneurial paranoia.)

Sad, funny, scary, shocking, the e-mails posted on FutureMe.org are so compelling, so human, that Sly and Patrikios recently got the idea to collect the best of them in a book, "Dear Future Me," to be released by HOW Books this fall.

"Some of the e-mails made us laugh out loud," Sly and Patrikios write in their introduction, "some had us pretty scared, and some of them had us putting our hands up to our faces, peeking through our fingers and hoping that the people who wrote them would turn out OK."

http://www.latimes.com/features/maga...-home-magazine

Cowperson

[Flashpoint]

A 13-year-old tries to shake up his complacent, conventional Future Self, but it sounds futile:

"are you cooped up in some bank, writing [expletive] reports for 60k a year?

"Go.

"Go see the world. pass out in india.

"wake up in africa.

"smoke weed with buddhists.

"LIVE

"I know you though

"you won't go."

[Burninator]

If you like this, then you will probably like the PostSecret book series.

At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting strangers to mail him anonymous postcards that made art out of their innermost secrets and then posting a selection of the cards every week on his blog. Within a year, his blog was one of the five most popular in the world, and his first book, PostSecret, was one of the surprise bestsellers of 2005. My Secret is his second book, a collection of cards from teens and college students--none of which has been shown on the website--that carries the same emotional power and creativity that have made Warren's project a phenomenon.

PostSecret Book

PostSecret Blog

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

That's epic for a 13 year old

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Burninator

If you like this, then you will probably like the PostSecret book series.

At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting strangers to mail him anonymous postcards that made art out of their innermost secrets and then posting a selection of the cards every week on his blog. Within a year, his blog was one of the five most popular in the world, and his first book, PostSecret, was one of the surprise bestsellers of 2005. My Secret is his second book, a collection of cards from teens and college students--none of which has been shown on the website--that carries the same emotional power and creativity that have made Warren's project a phenomenon.

PostSecret Book

PostSecret Blog

PostSecret is $$