This is precious. The email below rolled in to East Portland Blog this morning purporting to be real, but it must be a spoof or a Portlandia skit. The group’s video is above. This is too Portland even for Portland. To outward appearances, this is a crowd source funding campaign for a proposed hostel in Portland where artists would come to live and create. If it’s a parody or spoof, it’s perfect. All the details are just almost believable enough to be hilarious.
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj…/t-shirts-for-future-geniuses
Hi! We’re writing to you to tell you about our project, which we think shares many ideas with your work.
We hope you don’t mind a message from strangers like us 🙂
We’re creating the most exciting place to live, study and work – the Sunrise Hostel in Portland, Oregon, in which every guest will have vast opportunities to take part in many different activities.
When staying at our hostel, you’ll have a library with books in different languages and manuals on various subjects, computers and laptops at your fingertips. Also on hand will be musical instruments, resources for painting and other arts, cameras for photography, skateboards, bicycles, scooters and a gym – we want you to be able to develop, learn and have fun all the time!
We believe that such a project is particularly important in our time. Why? Because, while on Earth there are now more than 7 billion of us, we are drifting away from each other at an alarming rate. People are trying to divide themselves from one other along all possible racial, territorial, economic, cultural, social, ideological and who knows what other lines. And we’re all forgetting the most important thing – that in fact, we are all one. And the best proof of this is that all the most beautiful things on this planet don’t need translation – and they belong to all of humanity. Art, inventions which make our life better, people’s great achievements – all these are part of human nature, and belong to each and every one of our seven billion. We are confident that the Sunrise Hostel will become a place where people from different cities and countries will come to live and work together, and we are sure that this place will help them work on their talents and share experiences with each other, to develop and change our planet for the better!
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