Thirty Days Project: June 2012

May 8th, 2012 by

Announcing Thirty Days Of Creation:

Thirty Days Project, June 2012

Registration is now open.

Welcome to all returning and new participants.

Feeling as though the day is filled with distracting tasks?
Want to assign more priority to your creative work?
Want to get some momentum behind your output?

Here is how: finish one piece per day and post it on this blog.

Simple as that.

Some important announcements:

1) We offer a short list of Guidelines and a longer Terms Of Service and ask that you agree with both before your registration will be confirmed.

2) We now offer hosting for your daily work on the Thirty Days Project server. Most participants will prefer to host their images and music on their own websites, but if you don’t have a blog and don’t want to use public hosting, you can host your work with us.

3) Our new comment form appears directly below each post. Give it a try by leaving a comment or question about someone’s work.

4) Registration is required for all new participants. It only takes a moment.

Returning participants can request to have their accounts re-activated.

What you could do:
-Complete thirty software tutorials.
-Record thirty cover songs.
-Photograph subjects that have always intimidated you.
-Write thirty poems from a new point of view.
-Paint thirty versions of the same object.
-Write thirty short stories.
-Sculpt thirty maquettes.
-Copy thirty pen drawings from the Masters.
-Animate thirty walk-cycles.
-Make thirty how-to DIY projects from the internet.
-Develop abandoned ideas from old sketchbooks.
-Anything you like, as long as you post finished work every day.

Take a look through past projects and “How To” information that will guide you through every step.

We hope you will register and join us for another Thirty Days Project.

Consider subscribing to our RSS feed and letting your friends and fellow artists know about Thirty Days Project.

Think you know a good place to promote Thirty Days Project in the real world? A café, school, community centre or artists’ hang-out near you?

Click here to download a ready-to-print poster (8.5 x 11″ PDF) with the website info and QR code.

 

Two posters on one 8.5 x 11″ page.

Registration closes at midnight on May 31 (Pacific Time). No exceptions.

Work starts on June 01.

Let’s get to work!

Thirty Days Project Team

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How To Upload Your Daily Work

May 1st, 2012 by

Log in to your Thirty Days Project account and make a new Post, either from QuickPress in the top right corner of the Dashboard, or from the Menu on the left side.


The Upload/Insert button opens the door to getting your daily work onto your Post.


When the Add Media overlay appears, you have a choice:

-click on the From URL button to paste a link to your work that you have hosted on your own site/blog

-or click on Select Files to upload your daily work and have it hosted on our server.


Before you publish, be sure to select the Daily Work, June 2012 category.

Add tags, like the number of the day (day 01, day 02, etc.)

Look in the sidebar for more How-To posts and helpful information about using the site.

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How To Add A User Photo/Avatar

April 20th, 2012 by

Now you can add a picture or photo (avatar) to your Thirty Days Project Profile. Here’s how:

Prepare an image that will represent you in the comments and other sections of the Thirty Days Project site. It could be a portrait photo or any image you hold the copyright to. The maximum width and/or height is 50 pixels. Yes, that is tiny.

Name your file “myTDPavatar.jpg” or something similarly easy to remember.

Log in to Thirty Days Project and click on Profile in the Dashboard.

Scroll to the bottom, click on Choose File and select your avatar.
Don’t forget to click on Update Profile or this will all have been for naught.

Alternatively, you can sign up with Gravatar (it’s free) and have one pic that follows you from blog to blog. Many Thirty Days Project participants already use Gravatar.

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Follow Up: Survey Results

April 11th, 2012 by

A huge thank-you from all of us at Thirty Days Project to everyone who participated in the recent survey.

We will use the data to help us make decisions about new and existing features of Thirty Days Project and this website. Our end goal, as always, is to make sure the participants get the best return possible from their investment of time and effort in Thirty Days Project.

Below is a sample of the survey results. You are welcome to read the full results here (PDF link).

Sample (Question 3):

How likely are you to recommend to your friends or other artists that they participate in a Thirty Days Project?

  • votes cast: 16
  • pending votes: 198
  • last vote cast: 4/6/12 4:50AM
option votes percentage last vote
1 0 0.0% never
2 0 0.0% never
3 0 0.0% never
4 0 0.0% never
5 0 0.0% never
6 1 6.3% 3/25/12 3:02AM
7 0 0.0% never
8 4 25.0% 3/26/12 11:26AM
9 0 0.0% never
10 11 68.8% 4/6/12 4:50AM
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Call for Submissions from Tim Gerwing

March 26th, 2012 by

Hello Friends

For those of you looking for a reason to do some creative visual work, I have an opportunity for you.

I am putting out a Call for Submissions for some album art. Tell all your artist friends. Exercise your visual creativity. For details, visit http://www.lascaux21.com/maskedanddreaming/futureFarmers.php

Thank you!

Tim

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Thirty Days Project: Participants Poll

March 23rd, 2012 by

Yesterday we sent an e-mail to the general mailing list, something we do not undertake lightly.

The reason was to poll past and future participants on some key questions about their experiences with and expectations of Thirty Days Project.

If you would like to answer the questions but didn’t receive the e-mail, please contact us and we will add you to the mailing list.

Here are the questions that were asked (due to the nature of embedded polls, the answers were made by selecting a corresponding value from the numbers 1 to 10).

  1. How many Thirty Days Projects have you participated in (started but not completed is still totally participating)?
  2. How likely are you to participate in a Thirty Days Project in the future?
  3. How likely are you to recommend to your friends or other artists that they participate in a Thirty Days Project?
  4. How likely are you to use Thirty Days Project for non-artistic endeavours (to build new habits, learn new skills, etc)?
  5. How important is it to you to complete all thirty pieces of work during Thirty Days Project?
  6. How important to you is the community aspect of Thirty Days Project (browsing other participants’ work, leaving comments, having group shows, etc)?
  7. Do you like having the “Like” button in each Thirty Days Project post?
  8. Do you think the “Like” button discourages or encourages valuable communication?
  9. How often did you leave comments on people’s posts?
  10. Would you like to see more commenting/discussion options on posts?
  11. Would you be interested in having TWO regularly-scheduled Thirty Days Projects per year in June and November?
  12. Would you be interested in having TWO regularly-scheduled Thirty Days Projects per year in April and September?
  13. Would you be interested in having FOUR regularly-scheduled Thirty Days Projects per year (April, June, September, November)?
  14. Would you be interested in using a specially-designated section of the Thirty Days Project site to organize your own Thirty Days Project, perhaps with a group of friends? This would be independent of regular Thirty Days Projects and would start whenever you choose.
  15. How much do you hate being pestered with questions like this?
  16. How valuable do you think this feedback is to us in our goal to keep making Thirty Days Project relevant, useful and rewarding for you? (Hint: Very.)
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Jackie Dives Show at Kafka’s in Vancouver

January 25th, 2012 by

Thirty Days Project participant Jackie Dives (divesin) is having a show of her recent paintings at Kafka’s Coffee & Tea, 2525 Main Street in Vancouver. The opening reception is this Thursday, January 26 at 8pm.

She has an interesting write-up about how the show came about on her blog.

Congratulations, Jackie! All of us at Thirty Days Project hope you have a great show.

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“Fairy Tale” Dec 1-11, 45th Street Theater, NYC

November 30th, 2011 by

I’ve written a play.

Something I’ve always dreamed of.

This is how I got there.

Five months ago, I took part in the Thirty Days Project. I committed to writing thirty short stories in thirty days. I finished.

There’s no way I had written thirty complete stories before starting this project. Sure, I started plenty. But most of the time I got lazy. Or, more likely, I got scared. Scared that inspiration had failed me, that I could not write the beautiful story that existed only in my head.

This summer on the Thirty Days Project, inspiration lasted for about three days. From that point on, I had to push through. Sure, inspiration blessed me again, from time to time. But when a story didn’t work out, I didn’t give up. I finished it, and moved on.

Writing is no longer a mystery. It’s just a thing I do.

Now, I’ve written a play.

I’m a member of a theater company, and we all had an assignment: write something inspired by a fairy tale.

“Donkeyskin,” as told by Charles Perrault, got under my skin. It didn’t inspire me, it pissed me off; but the deadline was coming up and I had to submit an outline. So I bluffed my way through it.

Someone liked the outline.

I kept writing. Inspiration came, in rushes and trickles, but sometimes I wrote some crap just to patch things together.

I revised. I’d written perhaps forty thousand words in June; nothing seemed holy any more, and if something didn’t work, I cut it.

This Thursday, we start previews. My play, “Kate,” which started out at eighteen pages (and twenty six minutes), is now nine pages long and under a quarter of an hour. It hums like a top.

Oh, and we have some lovely actors.

If you’re in New York, I hope you’ll come see it.

And thank you, Thirty Days Project.

Michael

The Shelter Presents Fairy Tale
at The 45th Street Theatre
345 W 45 St, New York, NY
December 1st-11th
Thursday-Saturday, 8pm
Saturday & Sunday, 3pm.
Tickets: http://bit.ly/s42tFI
More about the show: http://bit.ly/tcZ4mj

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“Fairytale” at The Shelter in New York City

November 30th, 2011 by

Michael Bernstein participated in Thirty Days Project, June 2011, writing short stories every day.

He has since gone on to write a play called “Kate” that runs this December at The Shelter in New York City.

“Kate”, inspired by a French fairytale called “Donkeyskin”, is one in an evening of five plays running under the banner “Fairytale”.

Michael writes:

“Credit where due: honing my skills on the Thirty Day Project helped enormously in writing this play.”

Lucky Thirty Days Project visitors in New York City this December can buy tickets at this site. Anyone able to go? We would love to see a review posted here.

Congratulations, Michael! We hope it is a great run and we look forward to hearing more from you in Thirty Days Projects to come.

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Fraser Magazine on Thirty Days Project

November 13th, 2011 by

Vancouver’s Fraser magazine, which serves the Japanese community, published an article on Thirty Days Project:

３０ Ｄａｙｓ Ｐｒｏｊｅｃｔｓ

このプロジェクトは、以前持っていたはずの何かをしたい作りたいという情熱
を、ダラダラと流される日常生活という麻痺状態から復活させようという 活動
です。

グラフィックデザイナーが仕事用に絵を描くだけになってしまい、本当に描きた
いものを描かなくなってしまった・・・。そんな同じような悩みを持 ち、かつ
この状態から脱出したい人達が集まって話し合いをしたところ出た結論が、学校
の課題や仕事の締め切りに合わせてなら出来るならば、自分で 自分に任意に締
め切りを作ったらどうか、という事でした。

１日の中に新しい事をする時間を作る、というのは今までの日常パターンから何
かを削る、という事です。必然的に自分の１日を振り返り、管理し直す 事にも
なります。

このプロジェクトで重要なのは、参加して３０日間で３０作品を制作するという
わけでも、作り出す作品の質でもなく、その日プロジェクトについて考 えてそ
の人がした選択かも
しれません。

このプロジェクトは、Ｋｅｉｔｈ Ｉｋｅｄａ－Ｂａｒｒｙさんと、Ａｙａ
Ｉｋｅｄａ－Ｂａｒｒｙさん、Ｔｉｍ Ｇｅｒｗｉｎｇ の３人のクリエーター
が、７年前にで始めました。２年目には作品をオンラインで公開するようにな
り、その後北アメリカだけでなく、ＵＫ・日本・オーストラ リアなどからも参
加者が集まり、現在も参加人数・参加国は増え続けています。

何を作るかはその人次第、絵であったり音楽、詩、クラフトや写真、料理やエッ
セーなど様々です。そして、その日の成果をＨＰで公開します。
もし何かを変えたい、という思いがあれば是非一度３０Ｄａｙｓ
Ｐｒｏｊｅｃｔ を試してみませんか。

For those of us with rusty kanji-reading skills, it’s mostly taken directly from our Press Release (available on the sidebar).

We did enjoy the version below that Google Translate came up with. Favourite bit: “the creator of three of Tim Gerwing”

30 Days Projects

This project, a passion to make you want to do something that should have had before, and revive the activities of daily living is flowed and paralysis of loaf.

Sister is just painting a graphic designer to work, it became 描Kanaku what really draw. Such have a similar problem immediately, leaving the conclusion was that people who want to talk together and escape from this state, if we can do according to the deadline for school assignments and work, one’s own arbitrary deadline Whether you made, and that was it.

Time to make new things during the day, it will cut anything from the daily pattern now is that. Reflect on their day of inevitable, but it also re-administration.

The key to this project, nor does it produce 30 to 30 days work to participate, nor produce quality work, you may choose the person dislikes you think about the project that day.

This project, Keith Ikeda-san and Barry, Aya Ikeda-san Barry, the creator of three of Tim Gerwing, began seven years ago in. The second year began to publish works online, as well as North America and then, gathering participants from Japan and Australia, UK ·, still participating countries the number of participants is growing.

What you make is up to him, a painting or music, poetry, crafts and photographs, and essays such as cooking and many. Then publish the results of the day with HP.
If you change something, why not try us once 30DaysProject any desire to.

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