Happy holidays!
24 December 2008
That’s all. I’m off to hit the post office before I go, hope I can make it in time before I head to Asia. I’ll be sending Charlotte off to Matthew. Over time I am beginning to see how our projects are different. I also gave a camera to my friend who was heading to Vancouver, B.C., Canada, named Edward. After the jump, some thoughts on the project so far.
One difference is that I am always handing a camera off to someone at the beginning instead of leaving it to be found on the street. I hope that it will make it more likely that cameras will return. There is always the risk that someone gets a camera and just thinks “yay, free camera!” and I am sure that has happened to at least a couple of the cameras by now. Maybe the holiday spirit will help prevent that, haha.
But handing off the camera to start seems to make people feel more like it’s their “pet camera” so that it doesn’t get handed off again. I know that some of my friends with cameras have been slow about sending it on, or have just hung on to the camera for a long time.
Anyway, that’s the whole point of this thing! Things drift away, sometimes they drift back. It’s a modern equivalent to a message in a bottle.