Culture
This Summer, the Mailboxes in Bristol Will Begin to Talk
Post boxes, trash cans and lamp posts will chat up members of the public in what is perhaps the strangest public-art project to come out of the U.K.
If a mailbox could speak, what would it say? "Get your hands out of me, you filthy mailman, them's my letters"?
Anybody who's ever wondered about that question – and if you have, ping me for the name of a good psychologist – should book it down to Bristol this summer. Around then the city's post boxes, lamp posts, bus stops and trash cans will become fully sentient, aware of what they are and able to hold discourse with members of the public.