Card formatted, battery charged, camera on nightstand. All systems go.
“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.”
Diane Arbus
Good luck everybody, can’t wait to see what you all come up with.
…and clear your memory sticks! It’s that time of the year!
Tomorrow is the day we make this project happen. With any luck it will turn out just as awesome as we think it should and then we’ll all have an awesome book to prove it.
So be sure to charge your camera, check your clocks and clear your SD card. Put your camera next to your bed and start as soon as you hit your alarm off in the morning.
I’ll update this site throughout the day tomorrow with some of my random pics as well as just some thoughts about how it’s going. If you want to write a post or two tomorrow, shoot me an IM or an email or something and I’ll give you the password.
Sweet! Good luck!
With the project date less than a week away, I thought I would ask for your quick help with a little bit of a test.
Tomorrow (January 11), will you take three pictures 10 minutes apart and email them to me?
If you can, please use the camera you’ll be using next week for the actual date. I understand a couple of you are borrowing better cameras for the real date, so it’s cool if you can’t use those… just use *something* if you can.
I’m going to use these test photos to test out the website and auto-placement in the book and so I can see if anyone’s cameras will give me problems.
Don’t worry though - I won’t post these online, and nobody besides me will see them.
Rock.
Sorry kids. I had moderation for comments left on by accident. All the comments (all two of them, thank you Jill and Parker) should be live now.
Sweet.
Hokay, so this is the general idea:
An almanac of ten people’s days.
On January 16th, ten people from all over America (and one in London) will take one picture every 10 minutes of their day from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep.
These pictures will then be sent to Boston, placed into a book together and copies will be sent back to the participants. The photos will also show up online.
Ordinary pictures of their everyday lives. One entire day captured.
Watch this space for more information about the entire project.
(Also please pay no attention to the look of this site for now. It’s just a [disgusting] placeholder!)