Sex, love, money and the perennial British favourite, better weather, are top of Londoners’ wish-lists for 2009.
This is according to voice-to-text company SpinVox which, since the start of the festive period has been capturing seasonal and New Year wishes at its Wishing Well, a 7.2 metre-tall triangular audiovisial installation in Covent Garden’s East Piazza.
To date, over 2,000 wishes have been made at the well by calling a designated phone number – 0207 818 0880 – and leaving a voice message.
In minutes each message is automatically converted to text and projected across its walls in a beautiful and inspiring flow of wishes and simultaneously displayed at the www.spinvoxwishingwell.com website.
These messages have been a mixture of the touching, the poignant, the funny and the plain bizarre!
Since its launch on December 12th, the Wishing Well has seen countless wishes of a sexual nature, two marriage proposals, 75 declarations of love, countless recession/money-related wishes as well as an array of hopes for better weather in 2009!
There have been over 30 requests for animals as Christmas presents. Girls Aloud are the most wished-about celebs with Rachel Stevens and X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke also scoring highly.
To mark the New Year, SpinVox has unveiled its top ten favourite wishes cast in the Wishing Well over the festive period:
The SpinVox wishing well top ten
1. I wish everyone would smile once a day in 2009.
2. I want more kisses than ever before in 2009.
3. I wish George Bush had been hit by that shoe.
4. I wish I can be in love forever.
5. I wish I could travel to work by jetpack.
6. I wish that mini cab drivers would not use SatNav all the time and believe it always works.
7. I wish I’d stopped on my 8th pint.
8. I wish people would stop moaning about the credit crunch.
9. We wish that the Queen would come and stay for a night.
10 I wish people would stop wishing, wishes only come to people who don’t wish.
The SpinVox Wishing Well remains at Covent Garden’s East Piazza until January 5th. To leave a wish, visitors call 0207 818 0880.
