Flutterings

The Penny Experiment is seeking artists. The gist: create a postcard-sized piece of art featuring a penny and a number assigned to you by the project organizer. Donate it to the project, which will in turn sell it and donate 100% of the proceeds to a food bank.

[The guy organizing the project is also the dude who blogs about Hello Kitty Hell, which I happened to look at tonight in the course of rooting around for information on Herman Van Rompuy, who is the new president of the European Union -- and has a blog at which he posts haiku as well as quotes from Rilke and other poets. There are translations of six of the haiku on Adriaan Jan's Twitter (dated November 20).

...The connection between Hello Kitty and haiku, you ask? You actually have to ask?

...Oh, and courtesy of some bored (or catwaxing) Dutch creatives, there's already a Haiku Herman hack. Lordie.]

...and, here we are. This is what arrived in the mail from the one and only amazingness that is busaikko-san:

( photos beneath the cut )

(And oh, there is indeed much mayhem planned. *manic grin* But first I need to reheat my tea and do some of the dances-with-PowerPoint that will help underwrite said mayhem, and to deter the dog from sticking her snout into a certain bag of mini-Reese's-cups I've set aside (smiles at aunty_marion), and to figure out how I'm actually going to end part 2 of the fic I've just meta-rambled about to y'all over the past three-odd posts. Onwards!)