Ok.. I have decided to do something foolish with this project. I didn’t want to start on April 1st because I’ll end up trying to finish right before or right during my semester exams, but I’m going to do it anyway and step up the pace so I can finish in less than 30 days.
I feel like I’m behind because lots of people have started prep work for this project already and all I’ve done is decided what software I’m going to use and formulated a general idea of what the book will look like. All of my preparation up to this point is just mental. I know what I’m going to do and when I’m going to start.
We’ll see what happens… Tuesday is the start day :)
I updated the blogroll on the right to include everyone I know about who is participating in this project. If you aren’t there and should be, please let me know. I’ll be happy to add you to the list…
I’m ready for this project to begin. I know my topic and I know what my book is going to look like when it’s finished. I’m not stressed in any way about the images. Most photographers stress over the quality of the ‘art’ in their images. My project won’t depend as much on that artistic quality. My images will all be black and white and made to look like polaroid instant prints in the book and on this website. In reality, my project is more of a social experiment than a photography project. Each person who participates in my project will get a chance to “tell the world” something that is on their mind. The image is simply a medium in which their thought will be relayed.
As a full time student, I have some serious time constraints, so I can’t let myself get involved in a project that will take too much time to complete within the confines of the 30-day limitation. I’m still not 100% solid on when I’m planning to start my project. It’s going to be sometime during the first two weeks of April, but starting on April 1 will put finishing right in the middle of my semester exams at school, so I’m not sure how I’ll handle this yet. I would really like to start on April 1, but we’ll just have to wait and see how things go. If I started on April 1st, I would really need to get all of my photos made by April 15th or so in order to give myself some cushion on the finishing time…
A friend showed me this site last night…
This is some really neat stuff that follows along the same idea that I hope to promote in my SoFoBoMo project that will start in April. These images aren’t nearly as much about the photograph itself as the message being conveyed by the image. Browsing through these photos is giving me some good ideas for approaches that I want to take in this project…
Greetings to anyone who may read this blog…
I decided to create this separate blog space to highlight my adventures in the SoFoBoMo project. What exactly is SoFoBoMo?
SoFoBoMo is a project brainchild of Paul Butzi. The simple reality of the project is that participants will create a photo book during the course of a one-month period, from start to finish. This post in Butzi’s blog sums up the entire idea rather nicely. Creating a book is something I have wanted to do for quite some time, but have never mustered the dedication to make it happen. I think this particular project will motivate me to create my first one, and then possibly provide the interest to pursue it further after this one is complete.
We have one month to complete the entire project. We can choose a day to start the project between April 1 and May 31, so I’m choosing April 15th to start mine. April 15th works out nicely with my school schedule. I’ll be having semester exams around the end of April and the first of May, so I don’t want to be finishing this project while I’m in the middle of my exam schedule. As you can see from the top of this blog, my theme is called “Tell the World.” I have chosen this idea because it’s a project I started in the past and never completed it. I’ll be starting it over from scratch for the SoFoBoMo project, but I’ll actually be finishing this time. Stay tuned for more information…
John M. Setzler, Jr.