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Count High in the press

Posted by Adam R. Box on May 24th, 2008

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 […]

Themes

Posted by Adam R. Box on May 20th, 2008

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 […]

One giant leap

Posted by Adam R. Box on May 19th, 2008

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 […]

Digital community still counting high

Posted by Adam R. Box on May 12th, 2008

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) […]

Digital community adept at ‘counting high’

Posted by Adam R. Box on May 4th, 2008

Across the Internet, as people become more aware of the Count High project, topics are springing up on messageboards of all shapes and sizes. There is a topic on a site for passionate readers (BookCrossing.com). There is a topic at a penpal forum - where people sign up to write snail-mail letters to eachother (xpostcardx.proboards49.com)! […]