Archive for the ‘Public Figures’ Category

New “Public Figures” Submission

Thursday, 13th November, 2008

Budapest Image by Virginia Konchan

Image by Virginia Konchan


Virginia Konchan has submitted to the ongoing Public Figures submissions.  Check out her entry here.

See also the other submissions, as well as the Public Figures project (itself ongoing, of which this is one setting).  Consider sending Lauren a submission of your own!

Handkerchiefs at Dawn, a How2 Odyssey

Tuesday, 3rd June, 2008

Well well.  No sooner had I clicked PUBLISH on yesterday’s post about How2 participation, and the first Public Figures submission for months falls into my inbox.

So check out Jillian Yamasawa’s B(u)y A Handkerchief, on your way to checking out all of the submissions. And why not submit one yourself.  No statues in your area? I don’t believe you.

Interacting with How2

Monday, 2nd June, 2008

Even in the 3 years I’ve webmastered How2, I’ve noticed more and more in the way of potential for interaction with some of its features. As of the past few issues, this is not solely possible through writing postcards; Jena Osman’s Public Figures work featured in Volume 3, Issue 1 is accepting ongoing submissions of work, four of which are now up and linked from the current issue.

In this issue, a new piece of work in the new media section – GilbertandGrape’s Lone Ranging Romance 2004-2008 –invites readers to embark on an audio-visual interactive hike, before plotting his or her own route for G&G, through a rather nifty Flash-based freehand drawing interface. Draw it, save it, and your route is saved with everyone else’s.

These pieces, as well as the ongoing postcards, are daring ventures. They rely on the participation of the readership to help them succeed in growing and becoming something unpredictable to the author. But they need you in order to achieve this.

Lone Ranging Romance 2004-2008 can be seen here.

Public Figures can be seen here.

View postcards here.

And pass on the word that with a little momentum, How2 can evolve and expand between issues…!