About
We’re all done.
Thing-a-day ran it’s second public edition last February. We’re now closed for the year.
If you’d like to hear more or about the project or help us out next year, contact us info @ thing-a-day (.com).
In the meantime, you can still check out what is going on on the blog by using the calendar on the right hand side to navigate.
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What’s this?
Join artists and creators of all types and backgrounds in a collective creative sprint. Thing-a-day invites you to join a daily creative endeavor where everyone who signs up commits to making one thing (project, sketch, exercise) per day and shares it online on this collective blog. Take advantage of the opportunity to share ideas and receive constructive advice while developing new work.
How does it works?
* Starting on February 1st, make one thing a day.
* Document this work in anyway necessary to prove to the world that you�ve made something new: write, take pictures, videos, post things online.
* Do this everyday and post to the blog before midnight, 7 days a week.
* You can upload pictures straight to this blog (limit to 200K per post) but you can also host your work anywhere online and post a link to it on the blog. If you have a Flickr account, use it please.
* Introduce your daily accomplishments: give them a name, a title, a punch line, a description, anything that will encourage others to check out your work.
* See what everyone else has been up to and steal ideas, comment on other people�s work or reinvent something they did.
* No recycled old work, no posting someone else’s stuff unless you have explicit authorization from them. We’ll welcome anyone who wants to join and we trust you know the basic net ethics (-we reserve the right to kick someone out if/when needed).
* Thing-a-day.com will not send you reminders, will not harass you or threaten you if you don’t do your daily post, once you sign up, you’re on your own.
How long will it take me?
You should be spending an average of 20 minutes a day, and no more than an hour.
Do i need to know what a blog is?
* Probably. But if you don’t, you’ll learn it pretty fast. By Day 3 of bugs and troubles, you’ll be all set.
* If you already have your own blog, feel free to post your things anywhere you wish and link to them from here. But remember that people will be most inclined to check out your work if you post at least a picture or a good hook to your post.
How to join?
Registration closed on January 31st at midnight. Try again next year.
Why (you should have) join(ed)?
* This is your chance to get your creative energy going and challenge yourself to make something out of all these ideas in your head
* Anything to make February go faster is good
* You know you always wanted to do it and never had the courage to commit
* You’ll get peer support maybe, an audience surely
* You can give up on all of your other new years resolutions after that
* Ze Frank did it for a year�
Credits
* This project was started as a class thought by Ze Frank at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Fall 2005. Every day, the twenty something grad students of this class has to post something new (that plus another large project a week� so count yourself lucky).
* In February 2007, inspired by the Ze Frank effort, we created the thing-a-day platform and opened it up to the public.
* This is the second edition of Thing-a-day.
* This project is maintained by Mouna Andraos with Mohit SantRam and the precious help of Steve Lambert and a number of other super helpful people. Thanks.
Need help?
The thing-a-day.com blog is pretty much provided as is. Although we will do our best to help you with blog related issues and insure continuous service, we are offering no guarantees what so ever.
Be warned that there will be lots of traffic on the site in February, with over 800 people signed up. So we will probably have technical difficulties, and the site will go off line at random times.
Whatever happens, do not stop working on your stuff. You’re doing this for yourself first, and for the blog second.
That said, you can contact us at: info at thing-a-day [.com]
Enjoy.