the disposable memory project

Leo Laporte and Chris Marquardt talk about The Disposable Memory Project on The Tech Guy on TWiT.TV

Seek forward to about 53:45, or listen to the whole podcast if you’ve got a spare couple of hours.

Leo was sent Camera 349, which travelled from the US to Antarctica in just a matter of a few weeks.

Chloé very kindly took a picture of the recent article in Phosphore magazine, in France, AND translated the article for us. Amazing!

“The editorial staff loves…

TRAVELER PICTURES

It’s a crazy, unnecessary and great idea: leaving disposable cameras around the word , hoping, then, to recover the pictures of their journey. Since 2008, “The Disposable Memory Project” send cameras on a trip, like so many bottles in the see.
On www.disposablememoryproject.org, you can locate the cameras stashed in Aix, Amsterdam or Chamonix, propose to left one close to your home, or look at the pictures of the 30 cameras already returned from their trip. Snapshots (some successful, some… disposable), where you find a Gambian fisherman, Texas women covered with gold, or Winnie the Pooh at the South Pole… An amazing idea wich is waiting for you to grow, knowing that, of course, it’s better when the camera travels, often changes hands, and when yo do not photograph close-in your nostrils!”

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?

Masha sent us a scan of an article featuring the project in Russian magazine F5:

She also helped translate it:

folklore (which is only a name of the section, have no idea why)

Than a large sign ТЕКУЧКА КАДРОВ which can be translated as “Flowing of the pictures (frames)” or “workers routine” (this is a very cool magazine. they have so many word-games)

Than it says:

The participants of disposable memory project leave around disposable cameras with a note, which asks people to take a couple of pictures and “lose” the camera again. People, who find the cameras completely filled with photos upload it to the project’s website.

Thanks Masha, and thanks to the team at F5 for featuring the project. Masha will hopefully be our first Russian camera drop, and fingers crossed we’ll get more people from that part of the world signing up to the project.

Update:
You can actually download a PDF version of the article here, and view the online version here.

I was asked to talk last night about the Disposable Memory Project at an event held by the IPA in London. The videos of the talk should be online within the next week, but in the meantime, the slides are available here and on slideshare.

Update: Chris from Vizeum wrote about the event here for an overview of what was spoken about.

In case you didn’t catch it, here is the interview with the Disposable Memory Project from last night’s BBC Radio 5 Live Pods and Blogs show.

Thanks to Jamilliah Knowles for getting in touch with us and arranging the interview.

We’re live on the wireless tonight at 2.30am – well, its not live actually, but an interview we had with Jamilliah Knowles last week which will be featured as part of the ‘Up all night’ show. Not to worry if you can’t face staying up all night, we’ll be sharing the podcast – Pods and Blogs – once it has been uploaded.

We’ve been away for a few weeks, so imagine the pleasant surprise upon returning to the email to find a bumper crop of new cameras to tell you about.

First of all SIX new drops from Jon C. whilst he was holidaying in Paris.

Camera 65 was handed over to a juggler outside Notre Dame Cathedral
Camera 66 was left outside of the Louvre
Camera 67 was left on the Eiffel Tower
Camera 68 was left at the Sacre Coeur
Camera 69 was left outside a shop on the Rue Saint-Honore
Camera 70 was handed over to a couple near Jim Morrison’s tomb

Jon also was the first to use our french instructions, provided by Lucy O, who very kindly translated our English version when dropping Camera 48 in Greece.

Next, Tom K. wrote to tell us about his drop of Camera 71 in Honolulu, Hawaii

I gave the camera to Pauahi, a native Hawaiian girl who worked at a bar we frequented in Honolulu.

Mahalo Tom, and we’re looking forward to hearing from Pauahi, who you can see in the image at the top of this post.

Finally, last night Matthew spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Jamillah Knowles, from the Pods and Blogs show about what we’re doing. The interview is going to be live on Tuesday morning 2.30am (get up early!), but if you can’t quite manage that, it will appear in the podcast also. We’ll post it when it has aired.