Wouldn't it be great to link any object directly to a 'video memory' or an article of text describing its history or background? Tales of Things allows just that with a quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as QR codes. How about tagging a building, your old antique clock or perhaps that object you're about to put on eBay?
Three years ago I decided to move to the U.K. to learn to speak English properly-I am still not quite there, but that is a different story. Three weeks before I left, I met one of my friends by a fountain in a beautiful park in Budapest. As soon as she saw me, she picked up this stone and said that now that I am leaving, I should have this stone and keep it always in my bag; I shall see if it will bring me luck. I am not a superstitious person but I kept the stone. When I tell anybody this story (well, sometimes it falls out of my bag, I have to) they always ask: “And did it bring you luck?” and I was never sure about the answer until a creative writing lesson, when somebody told me that if we were still friends, it probably did. Yes, indeed.
Daniella, EN513
created by fiveonethree
I think the parks in Budapest must be nicer than ours. I've never seen such a pretty stone lying about in a British park. Don't lose it!
Fri 12 Nov 2010
Added by bobjacqs
Three years ago I decided to move to the U.K. to learn to speak English properly-I am still not quite there, but that is a different story. Three weeks before I left, I met one of my friends by a fountain in a beautiful park in Budapest. As soon as she saw me, she picked up this stone and said that now that I am leaving, I should have this stone and keep it always in my bag; I shall see if it will bring me luck. I am not a superstitious person but I kept the stone. When I tell anybody this story (well, sometimes it falls out of my bag, I have to) they always ask: “And did it bring you luck?” and I was never sure about the answer until a creative writing lesson, when somebody told me that if we were still friends, it probably did. Yes, indeed.
Daniella, EN513
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