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The excellent Coudal Partners have come up with a great experiement that exploits the web in a great, hands-on, human way: the Swap Meat—part leap of faith, part art exchange, part black market.

Send us some of your stuff. Not stuff you made for clients or stuff you just have laying around. Send us some of the stuff you made for yourselves, that you’re selling or giving away. You’re going to have to trust us on this, but we’ll check out what you send and then send you back some stuff of approximately equal value. That might be stuff we received from someone else or some of our stuff, or some combination of the two.

The Four Things That Can Happen When You Send Us Something For Swapping

1. Nothing. If you send us something mass-produced or something that is generally available through mainstream retail outlets or that doesn’t fit in the general vibe of the Swap Meat, we’ll look at it, possibly enjoy it and maybe even write about it somewhere. But beyond that, nothing will happen.

2. You Get Swapped. We’ll match your item with someone else’s item and swap them. This is the most likely result and we hope you dig what you get back. That’s really what this whole thing is all about.

3. You Get Swapped & Featured. We’ll photograph and write a short profile about selected original, amazing, creative things and feature them on the Swapped Page including a link to where people can get more information or make a purchase. We’re featuring at least one new thing every weekday and if you subscribe to our blended RSS feed you’ll know when they’re posted.

4. You Get Swapped, Featured & Commissioned. When we receive an item that we totally love and that is, for one reason or another, not available for sale on the web, we may commission the object’s creator to produce a special, limited-edition to be sold through our Swapped Page.

Now get to swapping, or check out some of the selected items changing hands right now. (Or watch the project’s sweet video.)