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Comment by andytgeezer on November 23, 2010 at 12:01am

Cripes Mim - it's in version4! I had no idea!

I'm not preparing blanks because I tintend to mainly collage. I have a bunch of postcards that I'm starting with though and these are what they look like

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 22, 2010 at 8:06pm

My son's 365 project, www.skulladay.com, continued beyond with the help of his fans. It's skull-a-day 4.0 now. How cool is that. I'm enjoying all of the postings here. I, too, have a date stamp, though it sadly won't look like fraternities or sororities, what fun. I'm going off now to make a rubber stamp with our blog on it. I have to catch up with Katerina in the making of blanks, but I did look around my studio for a potential record keeping book. I may or may not keep one. The excitement is building!! Thanks for the tidbits of info, Val.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 22, 2010 at 5:06pm

good idea...we do the 365, and then non-stop! As I am sure most of us will continue after Dec. 1, 2011, for many years to come!

Comment by andytgeezer on November 22, 2010 at 4:43pm

I for one have no intention of calling 365 an end point! If anything it's a start!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 22, 2010 at 4:41pm

Ron Hill is a 365 man -- plus. He is a famous long distance runner who ran in the Tokyo and Munich Olympiucs, etc

He has built a 'streak' of almost 17,000 days, "...in which he has not missed a single day of running since December 1964, starting when he was becoming established as a world-class runner. Hill continues his streak today, though he now defines a 'run' somewhat loosely; he has established baseline criteria of only one mile 'run', at any pace. Nevertheless, Hill's streak is a benchmark that other such streaks are usually compared against. In his streak, Hill includes workouts after a car crash in 1993 when he broke his sternum, and after bunion surgery, after which he used a crutch for one mile (1.6 km) in 27 minutes the next day."

He's quite mad.

But why should we stop at 365?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 22, 2010 at 4:37pm

Silvio and Leda made love 365 days a year for many years of their married life (in Alberto Moravia's "Conjugal Love). They they agreed to stop making love 365 days a year while Silvio pursued a literary project. When they go 'cold turkey' the marriage collapses. Is there a 365 lesson here?

Comment by andytgeezer on November 22, 2010 at 10:08am

Feel free to write on the blog before December 1st to add to the introductions if you please. The blog is now yours!

If you are a member of this group and not yet a writer on the blog, please send me your email address and I'll add you to it!

Comment by andytgeezer on November 21, 2010 at 3:51pm

Also I think that a 365 is a totally different challenge for me personally. To make 365 pieces, when I'm tired and otherwise would not bother, just to push myself to create. I want to see that I can do it. It's a challenge. Can't wait to get started - 10 days to go

Comment by andytgeezer on November 21, 2010 at 3:50pm

The value is in the community for me personally. For me personally, and for some others, Elena for example, who are not necessarily making mailart 365 days a year on average, the added incentive that being part of a project like this gets them making mailart at all.

If there is no value added for you personally then don't do it, but different people have different reasons to get involved. Amongst the values potentially added are

Exposure
Community
Fun
Motivation

I'm doing it for all of those personally, especially the last as I would otherwise not make quite so many pieces.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 21, 2010 at 3:44pm

Dear andyt, thanks for the clarification. In addition to my Envelope a Day, I already send an average of at least one mailart piece to someone somewhere, so I have to ask what's new about this? (or in corporate speake what's the 'value added' [to me, or anyone else] element?) Regards, Val

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