| 365 Days of Making |
[15 Nov 2009|10:05pm] |
So, I recently was going back through my 365 days self-portrait project on flickr, and I was remembering how much fun it was to have a specific tiny encapsulated goal for each day of the year. The photo gave each day a small additional layer of complexity and expectation, even if it was something that I was scrambling to do right before bed.
I also liked the fact that I could add a small bit of detail about my day to the photo and this could act as a mini-blog documenting the highlights of each particular day. (This was actually surprisingly useful recently when I went back and looked at photos of the time in Spring 2008 when Jess and I had the flu and past-Colin had conscientiously recorded my fever temperature for each day.)
So, there were aspects of the 365 project that were really great, but there were also aspects that were kind of silly. Having to stick yourself in each photo made it a bit too narcissistic and also made many of the photos feel very contrived. I considered this time around doing just a straight-up photo-a-day project similar to what Jess has been doing, but I realized that even taking photos feels too limiting.
Instead, I'm going to attempt to "make" something every day for the next 365 days. The things that I make will hopefully be a wide mix of simple/complex, surprising/mundane, inspiring/delightful/silly/absurd. They will include cooking, welding, coding, painting, planting, writing, or anything else that strikes my fancy.
I want a place where I can keep a significant record of each thing that I make. For many tangible things that will include photos and possibly movies. For virtual things, I would ideally like to capture the thing itself on this webpage, (source code, flex swfs, proce55ing code, etc.) That should hopefully make this blog both an archive and also a playground.
Another obvious goal of putting these projects online is to get feedback, criticism, inspiration, and motivation from all of my friends, family, and strangers. I'm hoping that people will enjoy the things that I make and provide me with the occasional boot if I start to fall behind.
I've created a home for this project over on extrareal.com. You can find it at http://www.extrareal.com/blog/. I've been making things for the past week and feel that now is a good time to make the project public. I'll try and cross-post in LJ, Twitter, FB, etc, but in general the blog (and RSS feed) will be the best place to see what I'm making.
Thanks everyone!
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[16 Jun 2008|11:32pm] |
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Hey everyone. The past weekend was absolutely amazing. Thanks so much to everyone who made our wedding so wonderful. I hope that everyone had a similarly delightful time.
We're really excited about all of the connections that were formed over the past few days. In order to foster those connections we'd like all of you to leave a comment in jess and my ljs with your name and a link to your blog (if you have one) or some other thing that you're passionate about. Jess's lj is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ariiadne.
I'm uploading this post from my phone at the airport. Mexico here we come!!!
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| Day 159: Chalk Drawing |
[08 Jun 2008|01:03am] |
Day 159: Chalk Drawing Today was a day of uber errands. We accomplished an absurd number of tasks and even managed to find time to help set the world record for the largest ever community chalk drawing.
You can find details about the chalk drawing here: www.reenchantingtheworldthroughart.org/
And yes, that's the Squid Labs tower in the background. We were able to get an awesome view of the whole panorama from the roofdeck.
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| Day 158: Small Smile |
[08 Jun 2008|01:02am] |
Day 158: Small Smile 8 days till the wedding. The excitement and nervous energy are really starting to build. Lots and lots and lots of small details to be focused on.
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| Day 157: Intertwined |
[08 Jun 2008|01:02am] |
Day 157: Intertwined It's interesting how commonplace objects (or body parts) can be viewed in truly non-common ways.
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| Day 156: Gorilla'd |
[04 Jun 2008|11:02pm] |
Day 156: Gorilla'd We've been cleaning and organizing all night in preparation for the hordes of people that will be arriving next week. Soooo excited.
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| Day 155: Ya Vote! |
[04 Jun 2008|08:48pm] |
Day 155: Ya Vote! Down with 98, up with G, pro schools.
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| Day 154: OMG |
[04 Jun 2008|08:47pm] |
Day 154: OMG I can't remember what I was so excited about.
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| Day 153: Calf |
[04 Jun 2008|08:47pm] |
Day 153: Calf I love playing soccer.
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| Day 152: Passport |
[04 Jun 2008|08:46pm] |
Day 152: Passport New haircut in anticipation of the wedding.
Went on a great hike with Christy, Eric, Jane, and Kiyash. Followed it up with a super delicious dinner.
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| Day 151: Fandango |
[04 Jun 2008|08:45pm] |
Day 151: Fandango Struttin' my stuff.
Jofish was in town and we had a wonderful dinner at Minako followed by drinks at Homestead. Lots of discussions about the wedding and readings and ceremonies and goofiness. I really hope that he can find a way/reason to move out here.
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| Day 150: Burninating |
[04 Jun 2008|08:44pm] |
Day 150: Burninating (I've been really bad about uploading photos recently. Sorry about the sudden deluge.)
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| Day 149: History |
[29 May 2008|09:16pm] |
Day 149: History I've been doing a massive upload-all-my-old-photos-to-flickr project. I've got about 50GB of archived photos and I'm about 20% of the way through them so far. If you want to see pictures of super young Colin, now's your chance!
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| Day 148: Puppet Strings |
[29 May 2008|09:15pm] |
Day 148: Puppet Strings This is one of several things hanging above our bed.
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| Day 147: Nom |
[29 May 2008|09:14pm] |
Day 147: Nom Jess made vanilla cupcakes with cherries on top.
Colin ate vanilla cupcakes with cherries on top.
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| Day 145: Blurred |
[29 May 2008|09:12pm] |
Day 145: Blurred I like the fact that I have hexagonal eyes.
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| Day 144: A look |
[24 May 2008|01:24am] |
Day 144: A look Having fun with empty spaces recently. There's something really interesting about blank canvases and with the stories that lie on the outside of the frame and which are just hinted at.
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