100 Days 2010

Stacey Mason provides a little update on the 100 Days 2010 Project. Thank you Stacey!

100 Days: Checking In

100 Days 2010 starts tomorrow – Saturday, May 22!

Here are a few logistics to help keep us coordinated:

NEWS & INFORMATION
The latest information will be posted here. So, try to check in as often as possible to keep up with any updates, announcements, or whatever that may come up over the next one hundred days.

FOLLOWERS
If you will be following John Timmons’ videos and using them as your point of reference or jumping-off point, the videos will be released at 12:30 am eastern daylight time each day.

YOUR SUBJECT HEADER
Please include 01, Day 01, or something equivalent at the beginning of your subject header (i.e. 01 – Dancing In the Fog). This will make it easier for everyone to keep track of what day your contribution relates to. This is particularly important as some may be away from their internet connection and won’t be able to post each and every day or they may post information that does not directly relate to the 100 days 2010 project.

We also make requests of everyone to share what days’ posts are their favorites and this numeric references helps us to do that.

ACCESSING EVERYONE’S POSTS
Links to everyone’s blogs are provided in two places: at our Netvibes site as well as right here in the far right-hand column. Whichever site you prefer to use, please be aware that, depending on the network, posts may take some time to appear. Clicking on the participant’s name will always bring you directly to their blog site and show you their latest posts.

TWITTER
If you “tweet” about 100 days, please include this tag in your “tweet”: #100days2010. We follow them in the first column to the right.

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Lastly, here’s a John Lennon quote: “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans“. We understand that things come up and you may not be able to get to your daily post. But don’t panic and don’t give up! It happens. Just get caught up when you can. Nobody is keeping score.

Good luck to everyone and let’s have a fun, inspiring, creative, and collaborative summer!

Read more about this year’s participants by clicking the tab above entitled “100 Days 2010 Participants.”

We have had a few questions regarding ownership of all the works produced as part of this project.

As far as the group is concerned, you hold and maintain all rights to your own work.

But since your work is out there for all the world to see we thought we would pass along a link that may interest some of you in terms of protecting your work:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/

You can see the license that John put on his site (check out the right-hand column) – http://johntimmons.com/video/

Not a requirement, just passing it along…

As we near our start date of May 22 (8 days as of this post), it was suggested that each of us add a brief bio to make ourselves a little more human and not so distant.

Post a brief bio on your blog that includes: who you are, where you are, what you (normally) do, what you are planning to do withthe project (subject, medium, etc.), and what your thoughts are prior to beginning. Plus anything else you feel is relevant.

Then I’ll link all of them to our main page at http://onehundreddays.net

Thanks everybody!

In the summer of 2008, I decided I wanted to be REALLY productive in the studio and then realized that I had just about exactly 100 days off from teaching. I gave myself the challenge of making a new painting-a-day for 100 days: http://cmoutside.wordpress.com/

I set some guidelines for myself, and knowing how easy it was to get distracted during the summer, I decided to make a blog for the project and spread the word about it in the hopes that friends and family would hold me accountable if I skipped a day and that going public with my project would be great motivation. Several days into the project, my colleague Steve Ersinghaus decided he wanted to crank out some new work as well and gave himself the challenge of following each of my daily paintings with a daily poem. We both made it through the summer and published a collection of all the work: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/356800

Last summer, more artists were hungry to join in. Steve Ersinghaus started each day with a short story and many of us responded with a painting, poem, photograph, audio piece, hypertext etc. Because Steve had responded to a painting of mine each day the previous summer, I decided to take a word, phrase or sentence from his story and use that as a title for my daily painting. My work wasn’t an illustration of the story, but an image built on some concept or vocabulary found in the text. The words were simply a place to look for a starting point for paint. There were about 15 participants altogether, most of them connecting back to the group in some way.

This year we expect even more on the roster. Several of us plan on springboarding off of John Timmons daily short films. While 100 days of any creative activity is a worthy challenge, we are encouraging interested participants to link in to the collective group in some way, so the nature of this project remains collaborative.

What do you need to do if you are interested in participating? Make a plan, make a blog, and send John your blog address. And then get ready to start on May 22. All participants daily posts will be streamed into Netvibes, like last year: http://www.netvibes.com/sersinghaus#100_Days_%3A%3A_Summer_2009

26 days until we get started!
~Carianne

One Hundred Days is a summer collaborative project put into motion by artist volunteers.  The history is pretty simple.  The first One Hundred Days began as a collaboration between Carianne Garside and Steve Ersinghaus that resulted in a pretty cool book available on Blurb and wildly fun gallery showing at Tunxis Community College.   Carianne painted a watercolor a day and I followed her painting with a poem interpreted from the painting.  The joining was demanding, fun, a great opportunity to problem solve.

The 2009 One Hundred saw a larger project, which began everyday with a story written by Steve Ersinghaus and followed, this time, by Carianne Garside, as we decided to flip the 2008 procedure.  We had fifteen other collaborators join in, from fiction writers, poets, photographers, designers, and programmers.  That project can be found here.

For 2010, we’d like to continue the tradition with John Timmons starting off the summer work with a short film.  It would be fantastic if people who’d like to take part in One Hundred Days 2010 chose to develop a daily project that follows John’s work or other work that develops from it.  We’d love to see how a larger body of work develops, like a massive root and plant system from either the films or other work that develops from the daily films.  In both years, self-constraint, like the confines of a sonnet, really opened up the flow.  Sure, it’s the old rhizome metaphor.  Remember, though, that Timmons is official starter text.

Here are some possible ways to proceed:

1. Follow the daily film, which will be available when the film maker uploads it his blog, and develop a work from it

2. Follow a person working with the film and develop a work from it, extending it, reshaping it in another form

3. Figure out a project and then work it back into the collective body of works in some way.

Send us your feed so that your daily updates will automatically be made known to everyone creating for or following 100 Days 2010.

100 days 2010 begins one month from today!

If you are planning on participating, please send an e-mail to contact at onehundreddays.net that includes your name (obviously) and the URL (web address) to the blog where you will be posting your contributions.

Make sure you bookmark this site as well as the 100 Days Group Project site (listed in the links in the right-hand column).

If you’re unfamiliar with the 100 days project visit the links to past 100 days projects listed in the column to the right.

100 days 2010 will run from Saturday, May 22 to Sunday, August 29.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Welcome!

If you are reading this, you have found the home base for the 100 Days Project for 2010 scheduled to begin in late May of this year. That’s just about four months away.

Our new address will host this blog and will serve as our news and information repository. The link to the right – 100 Days 2010 Projects -will take you to a new NetVibes site where all the projects will be publicly accessible plus feeds from this blog as well as Twitter.

Speaking of Twitter, make sure you include #100days2010 in all your “tweets” about the 100 Days 2010 Project.

Subscribe to the RSS feed to stay informed of the latest news.

We’ll be posting further information about participating.