http://flickr.com/groups/100strangers/ or http://www.100strangers.com/

I’m really considering starting this project, the idea is you ask 100 strangers if you can take their photo. The idea is it’ll help you improve your social skills when working with strangers. The project encourages you to talk to the subject, get to know them, and when you upload your shot, try to tell a story about them.

I think it’s a fantastic idea, and I know it will be really really hard to begin with, but I’ll love to try this when I’m out and away from home. I think it would teach me more than just photography, but maybe I’ll learn something about life too.

I don’t know when I’ll actually start this, but when the time is right, I think I’ll know.

Someone asked in the ThreeSixtyFive group how it was going. It’s interesting to see other people’s experiences with it. I myself feel a bit odd, I started the project originally as something to do with my time as I was unemployed and all, but now - it’s evolved into something else.

How am I?
Today I’m alright, I’m a bit screwed for money though - but I’m still feeling kinda good. This could change by the end of the evening tho, I’m weird like that, I still have to do today’s shot - but will worry bout that in a mo

How have I found it?
It’s been fun, there’s been some really really hard moments, and then some really wonderful ones too. It’s weird, this project has become second nature to me, almost part of my life ha.

What does it mean to me?
I don’t know, I guess it’s been quite important test of character - it tests my patience, my creativity, my persistence, my endurance - I want to finish this and feel proud about it.

What have I learnt?
That I can, and most probably will, do a lot of insane stuff just the sake of a photo…Oh and please - note to self - …don’t grin…ever…again

Therapy or noose?
A bit of both, the strain and pressure of keeping it going is hard, but photography is always therapeutic.

How’s it goin?
S’alright, today I don’t feel very motivated though.

Is it still FUN?
Yes, this group/community helps to keep the fun going

Is it worth it?
I hope so!

What do you want to get out of your remaining time?
I want to be more daring with my shots

would you do it AGAIN?
Nah, only because I’ve been there and done that. Plus two years worth of photos of just my ogly mug just might scream VAINN to people ;)

Has it changed your perception of ‘you’?
I guess so, it’s hard not to take so many photos of yourself and not learn anything new from it.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do next after this project and Photo a day finish too. I want to do something that makes me stick my neck out - I want something that stops me feeling so self concious when I have my camera out in public, like an event or something. I want to eradicate that vibe.

Anyywayy, Sime surprised me by having doubts about ThreeSixtyFive, and I thought “Hell nooo am I letting him quit!” - It’s his fault I’ve ended up in this mess project! Sime dude - don’t ever quit. Else I’m hunting you down and biatch slappin yo ass!

I had an idea brewing in mind for ages now, and today I actually talked it through with Uka/Nic for the first time. Since we were chatting about his new camera and considering trying to do a double exposure project.

Anyhow my idea was to have a few photographers, probably our fellow flickr friends etc to shoot a photo of themselves holding an A4 frame, then each image would be ’shopped together inside each other, in a series of shots that link together and eventually loop round.

Then I was going to take it the next stage up, and somehow in flash produce a looped flash version of this, so you could scroll through each image, or go backwards, and it would loop over and be never ending. This was inspired from a the infinite oz flash I have seen, amazing visuals, insane detail - amazing. Anyway I was discussing with Nic the logic of how to make images loop around like that, and he was very handy in thinking through a work around with me.

I don’t know how some people do it, it’s like this is how I know I could never be a proper hardcore dev or programmer, their minds just work a certain way, they see things in a certain angle that makes them come up with such solutions I could never ever thought of. I mean I consider myself a reasonable problem solver but some people just take the biscuit. THAT’S why they’re hardcore geeky devs or technical geniuses.

So yeah, after discussion with Nic, I’m so going to try this idea out, but with just images of myself first, it’s still going to be hard though. Hmm…

Oh and in other news…LEMMINGS ON THE DS!! Sqeee!

Yes…ahem..portfolio, I know.

BRB. Going to play in ’shop

Bob was trying to convince me the other day that I should probably get myself a copy of Getting Things Done, though at the time I had only just found out about my disease of doom, so Bob’s attempts to try and turn my sad time into productive time were met with much hostility from ones self. As you can imagine, it’s like telling someone you should go and learn some server side scripting because after hearing you’re about to lose an arm.

Anyway, now I’ve finally accepted there is fuck all I can do about the situation, and hence done what I could in resolving things that could be resolved - I have decided since I am housebound (to the point I can’t actually even step outside), and I won’t be distracted by people on msger or other social networking devices since everyone has fecked off this weekend - I am going to engage on the oh so eloquently nicknamed ‘Pox project’ - whereby I’m going to try and do one of the zillion things that I can’t seem to get round to doing in the duration I have the pox.

Here is a list of things I have to achieve during the “Pox project” (or PP for short, since it feels like some weird medical experiment calling it that.)

• The beginning and completion of one short reasonable sized project
• Stirred up motivation to work on other projects
• To forget about the alternative immense fun I could be having punching people in a field
• To get back in touch with my geeky side
• To warm up old skills again
• To generally GTD!

Sooo projects I could entail this weekend are..

• Photography portfolio
• Blog theme

Now righteously I should go with the portfolio, though I won’t have any standby web dev help for that, so I’ll end up tearing my hair out as I scream “WHY DON’T YOU LOOK THE SAME?!?!?” as I preview it in FF and IE and Opera and then the Mac versions and the linux versions and every other random browser under the sun.  But some would argue that I would be going against the whole ‘no stress, no fear’ thing - and sometimes I should just dive in head first and work out how to swim later.

Oh and I’ve decided to also pass away the time by watching lots and lots and lots of films. Torrents are on the go.

Think happy thoughts.