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]]>I've made your most magical Christmas card to share with someone. Either print it yourself, or order some here :)
Why? I explain everything below...
We live in a tempest of an age. That’s why I’ve made something special for just a time as this and I’d love your help giving it to the people of your lovely country, city, town or hamlet.
What is it? You might think of it as the most thoughtful Christmas Card most people have shared :)
Why? There are a few simple things that lend it a magical quality (I’ve heard some of history’s most important inventions are sometimes the simplest - like pegs, screws or a miniaturised phone with touch-responsive glass :) ...
Who should you send it to?
Any recipient you'd like to sprinkle kindness on: someone you know (friend or family), want to know (a Prime Minister, Oscar or Nobel Prize winner), don’t know (a bus driver, parking inspector or barista). It could be someone liked or even better, someone disliked :)
What do I hope will happen?
Tis the season for generosity and unexpected kindness: like a Rube Goldberg Machine sending this Christmas card will spark a chain reaction where one person’s kind gesture will lift the mood of another, who in turn will lift another and so on until soon the city is enveloped by a beautiful, cheery countenance! (Oh, and maybe even a Nobel Prize for us :)
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]]>I've made your most magical Christmas card to share with someone. Either print it yourself, or order some here :)
Why? I explain everything below...
We live in a tempest of an age. That’s why I’ve made something special for just a time as this and I’d love your help giving it to the people of your lovely country, city, town or hamlet.
What is it? You might think of it as the most thoughtful Christmas Card most people have shared :)
Why? There are a few simple things that lend it a magical quality (I’ve heard some of history’s most important inventions are sometimes the simplest - like pegs, screws or a miniaturised phone with touch-responsive glass :) ...
Who should you send it to?
Any recipient you'd like to sprinkle kindness on: someone you know (friend or family), want to know (a Prime Minister, Oscar or Nobel Prize winner), don’t know (a bus driver, parking inspector or barista). It could be someone liked or even better, someone disliked :)
What do I hope will happen?
Tis the season for generosity and unexpected kindness: like a Rube Goldberg Machine sending this Christmas card will spark a chain reaction where one person’s kind gesture will lift the mood of another, who in turn will lift another and so on until soon the city is enveloped by a beautiful, cheery countenance! (Oh, and maybe even a Nobel Prize for us :)
How can you get the card?
Print it yourself above (right-click, Save As, then print) OR order some here.
Are you a millionaire, influential mogul, sporting superstar or ordinary person with extraordinary dreams?
Contact me to discuss how we can spread magic en masse :)
]]>Dear Emma & Tom’s, thank you for making lovely juice.
It prompted a thought I hope you can answer:
Because most fruit is small, do you think it's possible that by drinking it I could become a super tiny human being with super powers?
If so, maybe you could make such a juice (I'm thinking grapes, wollfia and strawberries?). It would make crime fighting easier and I promise to use the powers for good.
Kindly, Oscar
(Find Emma & Tom's juice at www.emmaandtom.com)
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]]>One day in little towns, small, fortunate things started happening to ordinary folk in everyday conundrums. Balls stuck in trees were dislodged, loose change appeared mysteriously for those just short of purchases prices and balloons that slipped from hands, somehow floated back from the sky.
What no one knew is it was the work of two mysterious sisters and their granny.
You see, the two sisters had acquired amazing powers after mistakenly drinking a mix of expired milk and eggs that triggered a rare chemical reaction giving them amazing inventing abilities.
They began to actually make the inventions that children normally only ever imagine.
One of the sisters invented glasses that made real life appear to move so slowly that she could anticipate events five second into the future. The other made a dress that was lighter than air so could fly, shoes that could walk up walls and a machine that made old things look new.
Their granny was the perfect foil to appear ordinary as they travelled in a remarkable little car. Their granny however was anything but ordinary because the sisters had infused her hair with a material that gave her heightened senses that were perfect for detecting small quandaries to solve.
Each time the sisters solved one they left a calling card encouraging the recipient to show the same kindness they had received.
Memory of the small acts far outlived larger events in the lives of those who were touched (because that’s how kindness works). The recipients faithfully passed on the same kindness and before long a town was changed. And then another. And before long half the world was kinder.
But then some people started to doubt the deeds had ever happened because they had never seen the sisters and their granny, until soon no one believed they were real and the kindness began to wear off until the world was back to what it had been.
But fortunately the sisters and their granny’s kindness hadn’t worn off and so they began their adventures again.
]]>Once day a man and his wife discovered a beautiful machine on a bench that looked like a set of sunglasses. On its inside were engraved the words ‘Tell me what would you want’. The sunglasses responded to requests by displaying a time, precise location and word to say.
What they had discovered was a mysterious device that calculated the first cause to a chain-reaction of fantastically unlikely events.
Following the machine’s instructions, the couple spoke a request then make their way to a busy intersection and at the nominated time said the word.
Out of sight, a passerby heard the word, was cast back to a cherished memory, stumbled into an oncoming stranger who in trying to regain his balance caused pizza to propel from its owner’s hand onto the feet of the couple.
They were awestruck.
The next day they requested grander things. It set off a tapestry of delicately connected events. Within days they had a beautiful car. Then jewellery. Then a house. And through extraordinary luck (or so others believed) they won a fortune.
But soon riches grew unsatisfying and the couple’s appetite turned to long faded childhood dreams.
In a short time, the fantastically improbable became certain.
He gained fame as history’s unlikeliest sporting champion, renowned for audacious feats and an unsurpassable winning streak.
She made yodeling popular with young people everywhere.
Together they grew immensely wealthy and revered. But having unlocked the key to unlikely certainty and all they’d ever wished for, a stale mist settled on their lives.
The couple lamented their empty and certain success along with the machine that had given all they wanted. So, with a final request they told the machine to help them forget they had ever found it.
Now having no knowledge of the cause of their amazing triumphs, the couple basked in the glory of their remarkable achievements.
And out of sight, the glasses dropped, soon to be found by a young boy as they had been done to a thousand people before and a thousand to come.
One day two friends discovered a beautiful old car unlocked with a strange keyboard sitting atop its roof. Alongside was a handwritten note directing its reader to place the keyboard in the car’s console then to type.
The car’s silver body glistened as they obeyed the instructions, uncertainly typing a command for the engine to start.
Nothing happened.
They tried other words that meant ‘start’ yet, still nothing.
The friends wrote a polite greeting but there was more silence. Repeated questions were equally fruitless and scouring the interior for clues also yielded nothing.
In exasperation the men typed something dull about the weather. The car stumbled forward.
Stung with surprise, they wrote again and the car continued moving.
Excitedly one steered the mysterious car while the other typed.
The experiment gathered pace as they tested phrases.
Sometimes the beautiful vehicle would propel forward at alarming speed, occasionally soar and sometimes halt.
By sunset a pattern seemed to emerge. It had been there all along, only hidden like invisible ink. But surely - they thought - it was too fantastical to be possible.
Could the car really know what was true?
The more they wrote the more awestruck they became and hatched a perfect plan to use the car’s startling knowledge for their fortune.
The friends disappeared from sight to change future history. Shoes would soon be rare, baldness revered and cars would fly (but not in the way imagined) and other things most wouldn’t believe.]]>One day a generous stranger passed by a beggar and deposited generously in his box.
In an instant and from nowhere, unattainable objects he desired most - a pair of magnificent shoes and watch - appeared, but were strangely giant. The beggar motioned the stranger to take them.
Startled, the stranger collected the enormous shoes and watch and departed uncertainly. Onlookers gazed in amazement at what they were certain was a trick.
With each passing contributor the same curious events repeated only with different objects and varying in size.
Word of the magical beggar’s box spread and before long crowds of hungry prospectors massed, anxious to profit from the wonder in their midst.
Some thought the opulence of the gifts reflected the donation size so deposited small fortunes. They became bitter when small plastic pens, an undetectable breeze or nothing at all appeared and angrily retrieved it. The deposit though, slipped as if liquid through their hands, returning to the box.
Others thought it was the happiness of their expression so gave with an outward cheer but quickly learned it was not so.
Others still thought it was mere chance like a stranger lottery.
It appeared the greedy received little and the unsuspecting generous received richly.
But soon the generous grew jealous of what each other received, comparing amongst themselves. They questioned the truth the box told. And their rewards stopped. Soon no one gave for begging man but for themselves.
The magical box no longer worked, and over time the people questioned if the strange events had happened at all.
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]]>Each morning this coffee would somehow be magically replenished.
It's owner was grateful for his wondrous gift and savoured it. But one day he noticed a pattern. As he sipped the coffee over conversation while his friends confided their problems something strange happened - their fortunes mysteriously reversed.
He grew resentful at their happiness and tried to give the coffee away, hoping to become a recipient of its mysterious power.
But when he gave it away the coffee’s power was lost forever.
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]]>A time traveller from the distant future lost his flying machine when, unaware, it dislodged from his back pocket.
For reasons that would become obvious with time it looked like a beautiful porcelain cup and saucer, but today was mistaken for discarded rubbish.
The cup found its way into a used goods store where it remained displayed on a shelf waiting to be discovered.
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]]>It looked like an ordinary puffy vest but was actually the last surviving coat shorn from a long forgotten beast now considered mythical.
The coloured beasts had roamed frosty valleys in herds for centuries and been treasured by nomadic tribes for their conveniently shaped fleece and friendly disposition.
Likewise, these were not shoes but the intricate tusks of the same fantastical beast.
The fleece coats and tusks inspired handmade replicas long after their extinction and with passing of time so too did their memory.
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One day a rich man announced he'd secretly hidden five golden tickets in unremarkable towns. Each entitled it's finder to a million dollars which the rich man hoped would help travellers to find the beauty and adventure in the unnoticed and ordinary.
This is one of those locations.
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]]>What that man didn't know is the jacket was magical and gave its wearer knowledge of their future regrets.
When the man placed it on a mysterious knowledge enveloped him. He would regret his lifelong devotion to his job but if he left he would regret that too. He would regret not following his personal passions but also regret pursuing them. As the day wore on the man explored his imaginary world of possibility and saw his every choice would be rued.
The man regretted that magical jacket and the lifetime of regret it foretold.
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]]>A man invented socks that made him feel the anguish and joy of anyone he looked at.
He used those amazing socks to win the affection of all kinds of people and soon ruled the world.
Over time, though, feeling what others felt became common and his heart became hard. While he ruled the world he no longer felt anything. And he regretted what his invention had made him.
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]]>Greg and Helen were said to be the most fortuitous treasure hunters in the world.
What no one knew is that after a strange meteor shower they now possessed heightened senses when exposed to sunlight that helped them detect gold from afar.
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]]>In a world similar to ours but different once-abundant wildlife had disappeared.
Prized DNA of the once common but now extinct seagull was secretly smuggled as a yellow necklace. Its destination was a billionaire who longed to see the bird flying once again high above the ocean.
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]]>Oscar's first ever sculpture - the mysterious box - tells the tale of a small box that appeared mysteriously one day in the near future on a table in the middle of a town.
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]]>Purchase this print the price of joy here.
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]]>One weekend a man returned to work with luminous white hair. What no one knew is that he'd stumbled on a unicorn colony in the middle of a dense jungle and become their protector in return for no longer ageing.
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]]>Passersby were oblivious that in a month these two watches would be all that survived the city's great apocalypse and a century later bought by a collector for the price of a thousand houses.
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]]>Frances fought sarcasm at his school with a weapon that detected it in conversation then broadcast the sound of rubbing styrofoam.
Slowly his school became more encouraging. It embraced the things once uncool like line dancing and maths and reading. And the world became a better place.
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]]>In a world similar to ours but different this was the cleanest public restroom in the world because it broadcast the most recent visitor to passersby when non-perfect conditions were detected.
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]]>Purchase your very own original print of the forgotten lady.
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]]>When you says a kind thing to someone who made a picture or story, poem or invention it's as if the tank that fuels their passion replenishes for another month.
(Imagine it like two cups: one a magnificent coffee and the other a splendid sparkling water)
So next time you think a kind thought tell them and help them keep making.
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Say thank you to store staff who wear Christmas clothing.
Imagine a world without them and you'll imagine a world where Christmas Day arrives suddenly and without warning.
Their clothing announces a season upon us of cheerey tidings.
So next time you see store staff say thank you for making Christmas more than a day but a season. ]]>When Gretel was in Grade 1 the Grade 6 kids looked old. But when she reached Grade 6 she felt young and the Grade 12 kids seemed old. But when she reached Grade 12 she felt young and the university students seemed old. But when she reached university the married couples seemed old.
Then one day as she sat on a train she realised all this.
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