Chris just sent me a link to a Boston.com article about a marine, Brett Davis who "meets his flat twin", Flat Brett, during a seven-month deployment to Iraq earlier this year. The article says:
"Flat Brett" is a small cardboard cutout doll of Lance Cpl. Brett Davis, made by one of his mother's co-workers at Basic Systems Inc., an engineering and automation firm.
Carman Friday said she got the idea after learning that local schools were participating in the "Flat Stanley" project in which students mail around a paper doll and keep a journal of its travels.
In a similar vein, Flat Brett was photographed as he went around to family functions and was taken along on a business trip to Texas.
For those of you who haven't yet read my thesis proposal, the thesis project that I am proposing is, similarly to Flat Brett, directly influenced by the Flat Stanley Project, as well as by the Traveling Gnome Prank. The basic concept is to make children more engaged in their parent's trip by staging a story in which a doll is traveling instead of, or together with, the parent.
Let's just hope it works.
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