---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:25:04 +0000 From: Simon Coles <[log in to unmask]> To: Barbara Patterson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: You Ought to be in Pictures Barb, Some of the PARKINSN might be interested. I haven't posted it myself because: - I can't post to the list at the moment anyway :-) - Not entirely sure its appropriate - leave it to your judgement. Might be an interesting publicity event? Simon >Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 05:59:04 -0800 >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Originator: [log in to unmask] >Sender: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] >To: Subscribers to <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: You Ought to be in Pictures > >For further information, contact: > ><[log in to unmask]> > > > > >"You Ought to be in Pictures" > >Rick Smolan and the team that created the "Day in the Life", "From Alice >to Ocean" and "Passage to Vietnam" photography books, want to shoot you >and your friends! They're looking for the best examples about how >Cyberspace is changing peoples lives all over the world and if they like >your story they may send one of the world's top photographers to shoot >pictures of you on Thursday, February 8, 1996. On that day over 1000 >photographers armed with digital cameras will be dispatched around the >globe to show how Cyberspace is beginning to reach out and affect peoples >lives. It's going to be one of the largest photographic projects ever >done and certainly one of the biggest collaborative internet projects. > >The Focus of "24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the >Digital Cave" will be on the human stories behind the technology; the new >ways in which we work, play, learn, conduct business and interact. These >photographs will be transmitted digitally back to project headquarters in >San Francisco that same day, where an international team of 80 editors >(representing Time, Newsweek, Life, National Geographic etc), plus >designers and programmers will assemble a unique "instant" 24-hour World >Wide Web site. The goal is to produce unprecedented online, real-time >photojournalism on a global scale. > >The idea is to use the power of the Internet to let people around the >world both contribute and view images and stories of things that happened >since they woke up that day. > >The goal here is NOT to show people sitting at computer terminals and >it's not about collecting lots of random "bits". The project is driven >by carefully researched assignments and is both photograpic and edit >driven. The goal is to show in photographs and words how peoples lives >are being affected as a results of being wired. > >The leads can be about you, a friend, something you read about that was >cool, etc. A team of professional journalists on the 24 Hours staff will >follow up any interesting leads. > >If you think you've got a great story to tell and would like to either >submit an assignment idea or learn more about how you can participate in >this cool project please send your ideas to: [log in to unmask] or check >out: http://www.Cyber24.com. Please also feel free to pass this along >to people you know. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Stop the hegemony. Join EvangeList. Send an email to ><[log in to unmask]> for an automatic reply. (Any message >will work.) Archives are at: <http://wais.sensei.com.au/searchform.html>. > >Other propaganda: > >- Claris Emailer (for AOL, CIS, eWorld, and Internet email): ><http://www.fogcity.com/> >- How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: ><http://www.webcom.com/~fugitive/macway/testdriv.htm> > --------- My opinions are my own, NIP's opinions are theirs ---------- Simon J. Coles Email: [log in to unmask] New Information Paradigms Work Phone: +44 1344 778783 http://www.nipltd.com/ Work Fax: +44 1344 772510 =============== Life is too precious to take seriously ===============