new web project f.wish launches

boredomresearch are interested in engaging communities online through contemplative and rewarding experiences. In the web project ‘f.wish’ they are presenting an alternative to your average forum.

Inspired by the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong where visitors make a wish by writing it on some yellow paper and tying it to an orange. Then they try their luck at getting it to hang on one of the branches of the wishing tree. If you wish hangs in the tree it will come true, if not the myth claims that you have made your wish too greedy.

In the case of the wishing tree we add weight and gravity to that which is weightless ethereal and of the mind. boredomresearch hope that the Folly wishing tree will aspire its users to add weight to their wishes.

Try your luck and submit a wish to Folly's tree at http://www.folly.co.uk/wish

boredomresearch are Southampton-based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith. They interrogate the creative role of computing, producing beautifully crafted software art that presents a fresh approach to our technologically fraught lives. For further information on the artists visit: www.boredomresearch.net