Rebel Rebel, you might as well

As of today we officially have a location to hold the gallery event for the 72 Hour Photo Project showcase. Vanessa Marin from Cafe Kashmir, located in South Gate in the Los Angeles area, has gracefully given us the space we need. The show space isn't exactly a full gallery, but there is a fairly large area to show the photos. We have a sixty-five foot long wall and another section to put the photos in, but overall there won't be a whole hell of a lot of room to put everything, which wasn't the plan really.

Here's what's going to happen. I'm going to be really selective with who I showcase, partly because of the lack of space. I'm going to invite everyone to participate in the online portion of course, but the actual gallery showing will only be a select number of photos. I'll email directly those I have first interest in, but depending on who participates and what they're stuff looks like I may get in contact with others after the actual shooting dates.

The show will take place in May (not sure about the exact dates yet). But the actual shooting dates are currently set to March 2 - 4. Everyone who's going participate and wants to be a part of the gallery MUST shoot their photos through those dates. That's an important part of the show's theme.

The theme of the show is fairly simple on your parts. The title of the show is thus;
72 Hours Photo Project
Through Their Eyes...

The goal of the show is to show what peoples lives look like over the course of the same three days, on a global level.

More information will come as I have it. Until then, eh... Who's interested? Let me know, like, now.

-Jeremy Alva
JAlva.net/72hours

Two big things I want to talk about, both of which will require friends help from around the world.

First let me talk about the possible gallery show. For those of you who participated in the 72 Hour Photo Project, of which I appreciate everyone's involvement, I plan on turning this project into a gallery show. That's to say, after the next one I want to try and get everyone's permission to turn it into a gallery show.

I have a teacher who really likes the idea of it and wants to help make it a reality. My original intent was to try and turn this into a book highlighting the best photos, but she suggested first I do a gallery show to generate interest and help the photographers helping me with this project feel comfortable with me so they know I'm not going to rip them off.

I'm not sure how this is going to happen, or what's going to happen even; but I want your involvement. There are a few of you I'll be asking specifically because I loved your particular shots from the last series, and I'll still be accepting submissions for the website as usual. But with the gallery I'm going to be more selective I think.

We'll see how it happens and I'll keep everyone posted on what's going on.

My other project, this one is a guerilla literary project I'm tentitivley calling Copy Books. I was partly inspired by the webcomic Templar, Arizona where they mention the existence of something called 'copy books.' This is why I'm not sure I'm going to use that particular name for the project, but we'll see.

What it is, basically without giving away to much, is a project where I plan to write a series of short stories not related to each other, and sometimes not even within the same world, that reference back to the same central character of a story that will never actualy be written. The idea is to home-publish these (y'know, on my schools printers, haha). I'm gonna run about 100 copies for each city I plan on sending them out to (stay tuned for that explaination) and placing copies here and there for people to find.

Imagine walking into a record store and between "The Blood Brothers" and "Blondie" you find a copy of a home-made book titled War Of Roses. Later you find a similar copy of a book titled I Flew. Eventually you'll realize that these books are referencing each other.

The idea is to set up a website with a map to see who reads the stories, what they think, and where they come from.

Now here's where I'll need some help; I need people across the country, and across the globe even, to help me distribute copies of these books into public areas. Book stores, beaches, parks, buses, everywhere. Let me know if you're interested in helping out with this project. As it comes closer to go time, I'll make another post asking people to really help.