You see these mailboxes? They contain something. A newspaper. Which newspaper? Well, this one. And why is any of this interesting? Because, on page seven of that particular newspaper, there is an article about this man. He’s trying to collect 123,456 pieces of art over the course of a year. What an interesting person. The […]
Early in the project, people and their personal stories became obviously fascinating. A short “I work in ___ and live in ___” would result in a five-deep email conversation with an interesting person I wouldn’t have interacted with otherwise. So when number #102 had to go to someone with “Historian” in their email sig, I […]
As the Count High progesses onwards, and as the numbers come floating back, the ideas that people come up with are always surprising and interesting to note. One large section of contributions are the “I could never have made anything that good” artworks.
Of those, and including every other, there are strange recurring themes which continue […]
The Count High project is failing. There are not enough numbers going out. Not nearly enough. That means I am doing things wrong. Waiting for momentum to build has not worked, in fact, the opposite happened. In the first week, more numbers went out than over the last month. There has been a drastic drop […]
As mentioned earlier, the digital art community 3D Commune has really pulled together and come up with a lot of numbers. I don’t know why. Other communities have sprung up and died off, leaving just a handful of contributions to remember them by. For a while I thought the modelling community (as in real models) […]