Oooh! This looks interesting!

I was going through my Google Reader blog feeds this morning when I stumbled across The Sketchbook Project and I was immediately intrigued.

The premise is simple: When you register, you are sent a barcoded Moleskine Cahier sketchbook.  You fill the sketchbook however you want (so long as it stays the same outside dimensions and the barcode is still useable).  Then you send it back to the Art House Co-op and it becomes first a part of a traveling art exhibit and then eventually a part of the Brooklyn Art Library.  And you are sent notifications every time someone looks at it.  How awesome is that?

Since #66 on my Day Zero List is "Fill a sketchbook with drawings, writings, paintings, etc.", I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to commit to doing it.  And I really like the idea of perfect strangers being able to interact with something I've created.  As regular readers here know, I don't really consider myself much of an artist in the traditional sense (I can't draw for beans), so this is an ideal way for me to step out of my comfort zone.  In so many ways, I've spent the first 40 years of my life engulfed in fear -- of new things, of not being good enough, of failure in general.  This is a safe way to be brave.

Any of my artsy (or not) friends out there want to join me in this endeavour?  Check out the links -- it's pretty darn cool!

• The Sketchbook Project


• PBS article about The Sketchbook Project


• CNN video about The Sketchbook Project