working on embedding video... ok actually i'm learning to use youtube, from a non-viewer perspective... (i know i'm behind the rest of the world in this)

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i got a link to the stop motion video i made... I'm going to try to see if i can download and save it then embed here? i've had some technology limitations so far... so we'll see...

I was working on photo projects and experimenting with things and realized that this isnt really the point of what i wanted to do... its more of a tangent (and i like to tangent a lot, and usually need to be brought back to focus) so while that is enjoyable... i think i am going to stick to just making a TON of these and putting them out and giving them to people.

i've put more cranes out and about, MLB, Angell Hall, Flood Cafe, Mac's Bar they seem to be better received in places outside of UMich... then again at the bar i just gave them to people and didnt really stay to chat. At the cafe, i did much the same thing but people later came to talk to me about them. also it's sort of a tradition that i use some of my friend's fliers to make them and his band gets a table full of them (ok so i exaggerate a bit, but they get a lot of them, or a few very unique ones)

I made more copies today and encountered some troubles i didnt have with the original design when printed... I printed the master copy from my own printer and the margins messed up the design so it took a bit to get the text rearranged so that it would still make sense when folded.

ooh! and i've just discovered that the copies that were copied the wrong way, will still work! (although this makes sense as a square is used for folding)

Election Day
I just got back from voting and visiting at home.
I had thought that this might be a good opportunity to pass out cranes but then realized that I had refrained from making cranes that asked people to vote, or to vote for certain issues at all because I wanted to stay away from the "politics" that have been pervasive over the past year. Also i didn't want to get in trouble for passing out things at a polling place or have people annoyed as they were voting.

I have, however, been working on ideas for images and working on the paper format of the cranes which are in the process of being photocopied for mass production.

another idea i have is to make a few videos of what i'm doing and also a "how to" video