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September 27, 2011 by admin

Hello to all of the new visitors who are arriving here from twitter! If you don’t know about our project, have a look here at what we’re doing!

Calling out to all our community in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

If you’ve already released a camera, or want to release a camera and haven’t yet, here is an opportunity for you to take part.

Our friends at Kodak have kindly offered us a whole load of cameras, to give out to our community in these five countries. These particular cameras will all be released at the same time, and we want to see what interesting places we can get the cameras to visit.

If you have an idea for a great location where you’d like to drop a camera, and are able to get that camera to that location for us, we’ll send you a camera, along with everything you need to get started. We have 25 cameras to distribute across Europe, so tell us where you’d want to drop your camera, and the best ideas will receive the camera (along with some other disposable goodies) to drop.

We’ll then help you track the cameras journey, as usual, and hopefully the most interesting ones will also be featured in a handful of websites and magazines who are also covering the project.

To get involved, all you need to do is tweet “I’d leave a @foundcam camera at XXXX”, telling us where you’d leave the camera, and we’ll select the best ideas and get in touch. Alternatively, you can send us an email via the usual route.

If you’re not following us on twitter, why not? :)

We need your help! Local Teams

May 25, 2009 by admin

One of the big problems we face with getting cameras home, is that they need to be sent via the postal service (we like to handle developing the films ourselves, as we take them to a good lab to make sure we get the most out of the images – disposable cameras have a habit of being a bit dodgy quality!) back home to London. This is quite a big ask for people, and whilst we are happy to cover all the costs of getting that camera home, sometimes organising an international package can be a pain.

So, we’re asking for volunteers to act as local representatives of the project. We’d like to find people in the following areas who would be willing to act as a local address where people can send their cameras:

West Coast USA
East Coast USA
Europe
Africa
Asia
Russia
India
Australia

What would be involved?
Nothing immediately, but when a camera is finished in the same country as you, we’ll provide the person who currently holds the camera with your address. They’d drop the camera in the post to you, and then you’d send it on to us. We’ll cover all of your costs of getting the parcel to us, and you’d have our eternal gratitude!

How often do I need to go to the post office?
Very rarely. We currently have only 9 cameras out of 120 or so – its unlikely you’d need to do it any more than two or three times a year. If this changes, you can always opt-out of the project, and we’d still be friends! :)

Okay, I’m up for that
Cool – email us at hello@disposablememoryproject.org and we’ll sort out the details!

Also, if you have any ideas on how to make the project easier for people to return cameras, do let us know – we’re happy to consider all suggestions!

Camera 29 images are online!

January 13, 2009 by admin



Camera 29:018_2, originally uploaded by Disposable Memory Project.

Whoo! The images from our very first camera to be returned are now online in the flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/photos/disposablememoryproject/sets/72157612468305465/

Thanks to Melanie for creating the camera, and BlazeNFoote for sending it back, as well as everyone who featured in the images. We’ll be making more of the images on the Camera 29 page in due course.

If you took any of the photos, or appear in them, or can even help us identify location, email us, or comment on the images in flickr or below, and we’ll update the images to help tell their story.

Camera 29:021_25A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:020_24A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:019_4 by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:018_2 by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:017_1 by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:016_16A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:015_17A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:014_18A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:013_11A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:012_12A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:011_13A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:005_5A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:004_00A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:003_0A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:002_1A by Disposable Memory Project
Camera 29:001_2A by Disposable Memory Project

On their way to HK

August 17, 2008 by admin

We proudly gave a couple of camera bags to Nick H today, who was visiting London for a few days, before returning to work in Hong Kong. He’ll be letting us know when and where he drops the camera bags.

Remember, if you want to create your own bag, you can email us here, and we’ll give you the instructions. It is really very simple, and takes nothing more than purchasing a disposable camera, finding a freezer or small transparent plastic bag, and a bit of willing.

Going global

May 10, 2008 by admin

The first international camera has been dropped today, in a Starbucks opposite the site of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. Thanks to Kirsty for making the first global camera drop, but it is by no means the last. We have a couple of people in the US, Singapore, Africa and Scotland already eager to make camera bags. You can keep track of their locations on the camera tracker

Cameras 3, 4 & 5

April 20, 2008 by admin

Three more cameras have gone into the wild today – one on the southbank, one in central london’s oxford street, and one handed to Peter from the Fifty Quid Danger Fund so he can put it somewhere of his choosing. You can find their location on the camera tracker.

I was walking along the southbank as my wife and I wanted to go and check out O2′s The Memory Project – nothing to do with our little site, but a really nice idea nonetheless. Basically, they have created a 360 view timelapse of the southbank, which is taking images right now. Inside the installation, you can view old images from the panorama’s last few days of capturing. Walking closer to the screens shows you newer images, further away, older (or vice versa). I’m not sure when its there until, but check it out – its a nice concept.

And finally, we’ve had our first request to make a DIY camera bag – all the way from Boston MA, in the US of A. Woo! Thanks Tom. Hopefully we’ll be seeing his camera location pretty soon.

make your own

April 18, 2008 by admin

I’ve had a few emails asking if people could create their own bags and release them into the wild. Absolutely, and this morning, we’ve created a little form to send us your details if you’re interested. The process is pretty simple – get in touch, we’ll give you a unique camera ID, and some support in creating the camera bag. Then, once you’ve left it in the wild, let us know where, and we’ll help you track it.

If you’re interested, go create a bag.

Camera Tracker

April 17, 2008 by admin

I’ve put up our very own Google Maps camera tracker. Apologies for the hideous gradient filled camera icons, i haven’t had a chance to draw my own yet, so generic had to do. There’s not much going on at the moment, as you can see, and I haven’t heard back from the two cameras out there yet – then again, i kinda don’t expect to really. I think more saturation is key to getting a result. I’ve also had quite a few people ask if they can create camera bags – i’m going to be working on that this weekend. stay tuned.

Londoncentric Regrets

April 7, 2008 by admin

OK – I’m sorry for focussing on London! I’ve already had a bunch of people asking me if they can do something similar outside of London – of course! I was literally thinking that I’d have to do all the camera seeding initially, but if you’d like to start your own camera bags – I’ll be adding the ability to create/register your own camera bags on the site as soon as possible. Thanks for the interest though.

Anyway – the reason for my post is that Nicky has suggested similarities between this project and 1000journals.com. Take a look, its a really beautiful project, and I hope we get something half as lovely and interesting going here.

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