For the new year, I've decided to operate a library out of my home and am opening Hsing's Library for my friends. Aside from sharing words and images that have influenced me, I have a second motive of seeding face to face connecting moments.
While the website lets you browse through my available collection, books can only be checked out in person. As bonus, some amusing book reports may be written over time (my late fee).
Created Emotipix. The inspiration started when I was in Brazil and my then boyfriend (still great friend) was in New York. While emoticons : ) : ( : P : / ; ) gave our text a little more personality, our “emotipix” brought me a bigger smile.
Each of our emails ended with an image composed of keyboard characters, sharing a little bit more feeling and sentiment than an emoticon could express. Even though they only took a few minutes to create, like hand-written notes, they made our exchange seem more one-of-a-kind and personal.
Curious whether people will try in their own emails (or if they already do).
