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January 28, 2007
Details for Participation
Sorry, registration is now closed.
But feel free to comment and encourage the participants.
What's this
Join artists and creators of all sorts in a collective creative sprint!
You're invited to join in a daily creative endeavor where everyone involved produces one thing (project, sketch, exercise) per day and shares them online on a collective blog. Take advantage of the opportunity to share ideas and receive constructive advice while developing new work.
How it works
* Starting on February 1st, choose a weekly theme and start creating things around it.
* You should be spending an average of 20 minutes a day, and no more than an hour.
* Document this work in anyway necessary to prove to the world that you've made something new: write, take pictures, videos, post things online.
* Do this everyday and post to the blog before midnight, 7 days a week.
* You can upload pictures straight to this blog (limit to 200K per post) but you can also host your work anywhere online and post a link to it on the blog.
* Introduce your daily accomplishments: give them a name, a title, a punch line, a description, anything that will encourage others to check out your work.
* See what everyone else has been up to and steal ideas, comment on other people's work or reinvent something they did.
What's with that theme thing
* You should seriously try to choose a theme for yourself every week: helps ideas evolve and avoid the blank page syndrome.
* We ask that you post about your theme in your blog post to help give context to your work and maybe inspire others with your theme selection.
* Ideas for themes inclulde (but not limited to): Gum, pregnancy, things you've never dared to do, learning something, revolutionary art, paper folding, textures, children's books, light ...
How to join
* Sorry, it's too late to join. Registration closed on the 1st.
Why you should join
* This is your chance to get your creative energy going and challenge yourself to make something out of all these ideas in your head.
* Anything to make February go faster is good
* You know you always wanted to do it and never had the courage to commit
* You'll get peer support maybe, an audience surely
* You can give up on all of your other new years resolutions after that
* Ze Frank did it for a year...
A few more things to know
* No recycled old work, no posting someone else's stuff pretending its yours... we'll welcome anyone who wants to join and we trust you know the basic net ethics (-we reserve the right to kick someone out if/when needed).
* Starting on February 1st, we'll open up public comments on this blog. We have been flooded with spam before so we'll try and keep it under control but if it gets out of hand again, we'll have to limit comments to registered users ony (sorry in advance).
* What's with all that stuff on this blog already? This project was started as a class thought by Ze Frank at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Fall 2005. Every day, the twenty something grad students of this class has to post something new (that plus another large project a week... so count yourself lucky). And their work is still online right on this blog.
* This project is hosted by ITP and maintained with the support of Eyebeam. Thanks.
Questions or comments, try mouna[at]eyebeam(.)org.
Posted by missmoun at January 28, 2007 02:58 PM