sheana (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sheana) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} fatshionista,@ 2006-11-01 10:59:00 |
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Fat Journal
Okay, to preface, this project is totally ganked from 1000journals (and, later, 1001journals).
So, for those of you who aren't familiar with 1000 journals, what the basically did was take nice, hardcover journals and send them out to people, who would write as much or as little as they wanted, and then send them on to other people, with them hopefully making it back to the originator when they're done. I think, with 1001journals and other similar projects, some have topics and some don't.
So I thought about how awesome the project was and how much I loved participating (I worked on journal #742) and how I'd love to participate again. And I thought, why don't I just start one? So, I'm announcing the start of generically titled "Fat Journal" (uh, please suggest a better title). I'll hopefully get some web space up for it soon, but basically the idea is that this journal will travel all over the place and people will write whatever they want in it. It can be about being a fat person, a fatshionista, a fat activist, or it can be that rad recipe you found for banana nut muffins or a poem about your butt or about this awesome art installation you saw one time or about your first girlfriend/boyfriend/romantic interest, in any language, and hopefully in countries all over the world.
So, would anyone be interested in this? I'm thinking we'd need a list of about 15-20 people, and each person could add what they wanted, let their friends add, and then pass it on to the next person. This is the most active community I know of, so I thought it'd be a great place to start seeing if anyone wants to be on "the list" as it were. The project shouldn't cost you money besides postage to send the book off next, and if you want to get art supplies or anything (you don't have to, though).
So (so how many paragraphs can I start with so? and whoa, I totally just started AND ENDED a paragraph with so... er, tangent...), if you're into the idea or have other ideas, comment away :)
EDIT 7:30pm PST, November 3rd: Whoa, almost forty responses! I'm not sure if all that will fit into one journal, so we may end up doing two (maybe turning this into a project?). In the meantime, I'm responding to everyone with how to contact me to send me their mailing address, and I'll organize a list and get the journal sent out to the first person!
Okay, to preface, this project is totally ganked from 1000journals (and, later, 1001journals).
So, for those of you who aren't familiar with 1000 journals, what the basically did was take nice, hardcover journals and send them out to people, who would write as much or as little as they wanted, and then send them on to other people, with them hopefully making it back to the originator when they're done. I think, with 1001journals and other similar projects, some have topics and some don't.
So I thought about how awesome the project was and how much I loved participating (I worked on journal #742) and how I'd love to participate again. And I thought, why don't I just start one? So, I'm announcing the start of generically titled "Fat Journal" (uh, please suggest a better title). I'll hopefully get some web space up for it soon, but basically the idea is that this journal will travel all over the place and people will write whatever they want in it. It can be about being a fat person, a fatshionista, a fat activist, or it can be that rad recipe you found for banana nut muffins or a poem about your butt or about this awesome art installation you saw one time or about your first girlfriend/boyfriend/romantic interest, in any language, and hopefully in countries all over the world.
So, would anyone be interested in this? I'm thinking we'd need a list of about 15-20 people, and each person could add what they wanted, let their friends add, and then pass it on to the next person. This is the most active community I know of, so I thought it'd be a great place to start seeing if anyone wants to be on "the list" as it were. The project shouldn't cost you money besides postage to send the book off next, and if you want to get art supplies or anything (you don't have to, though).
So (so how many paragraphs can I start with so? and whoa, I totally just started AND ENDED a paragraph with so... er, tangent...), if you're into the idea or have other ideas, comment away :)
EDIT 7:30pm PST, November 3rd: Whoa, almost forty responses! I'm not sure if all that will fit into one journal, so we may end up doing two (maybe turning this into a project?). In the meantime, I'm responding to everyone with how to contact me to send me their mailing address, and I'll organize a list and get the journal sent out to the first person!
