Social Experiment Turns Strangers' Emails Into Handwritten Notes

Emails bombard our inboxes day in and day out, but can you remember the last time you received a handwritten letter?

Artist Ivan Cash wants to remind you how it feels to find a handwritten note waiting inside your mailbox. In the third installment of his collaborative project, "Snail Mail My Email," Cash created a video asking people on the streets of San Francisco to compare emails with letters. For the folks in this clip, the consensus is clear: Handwritten ones always win.

Cash created "Snail Mail My Email" in 2011 after quitting what he thought was his dream job at an advertising agency in Amsterdam. He told Mashable that though he loved writing letters, he didn't have time for it with a full-time job Read more...