Findnearyou.com, a location based information service is sponsoring our SmugMug account. Woah!
So that means, apart from making everyday decisions simpler, they are also making our photo uploading process simpler. Details on photo uploading procedure will be put up soon. Watch this space.
A big thanks to findnearyou.com for supporting us and helping us out of this tight spot.
A few folks have been complaining about the complex process involved with uploading the photos.
1) One has to obtain a Yahoo ID.
2) Get a flickr account.
3) Join the 311pm flickr group
4) The upload the photo to their account.
5) Go to organizer and send the photo to the flickr pool.
Phew!
It is a very known fact that flickr isn’t very usable, so if flickr is the only option for uploading photos, we are going to be stifling a lot of n00bs in here. So what can be done?
Have an email id? An email id to which folks can mail their photo. This sounds like a nice, but it is a very torturous process. The organizers i.e. us, have to manually read every message, wait for the virus scan. Download the photo and try to make sure we don’t mess the write ups which accompany the photo.
So we have zeroed in on Smugmug, for the want of a better choice. Smugmug has everything we wanted and more, but all this for a price of $150 (approx. Rs. 6,500). If we manage to find sponsors in these four days, we will make lives easier for a lot of you.
*Fingers crossed*
Hello I am Ganesh APP, a blogger/filmmaker/engineering student in Chennai. I along with Bhargav Ramakrishnan and Mahendran Balan are organizing this campaign with a lot of help from friends, bloggers, strangers et la.
Let me introduce you to Bhargav and Mahen. Bhargav is my classmate, a very creative chap who is game for anything innovative. Engineering has been his bane in life. He is more of an arts student. He is a theater personality in his own right. You might catch him at some random Evam plays these days.
Mahendran, who works for Citigroup Global Services ltd banking, is the most enthusiastic guy I have known during my stay in Chennai. He has been driving this campaign … blood and flesh…
How did it all start?
I spend a lot of time watching play.blogger.com photos. Isn’t it amazing, to watch all the photos uploaded at the same time? What if I could see all the photos taken at the same time? Brilliant!
I called up Baggy and told him about this. He later fine tuned the idea.
Why only Chennai and not the whole world?
It is a a question of quantity and fullness. By fixing the event to only Chennai, we can have better publicity drives and cover the whole city. Get enough photos to show the city in full.
Why 03:11 PM?
It is just an insignificant time on an insignificant date. At least we thought so, till we bumped into this Wikipedia entry.
Here is my top pick from that list: The storage space counter on Gmails homepage increases by 311^10-6 MB every second.
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………share our initiative with Chennaiites, both participants and non-participants, all over. We are closing deals with sponsors and on the lookout for more to place banners of that moment we defined. We also intend to release a coffe table book ‘3:
0311 will not stop with that, with the encouraging response and support we have received we are pitching to take this event to other cities in India starting with Bengaluru and hopefully one day define a moment in India itself. We are open to ideas and contributions from all our friends at 311, if you have any ideas about what more we can do, please mail us at 0311pm@gmail.com
Thank you.
Bhargav
Chennapatnam, one hundred and eighty one square kilometers huge, four point three four million people rich, ever wondered what goes on in this vast expanse of heat and humidity at every second, every minute and every hour of every day. From Mahabalipuram to Maraimalainagar, extending all the way to Chengalpet, imagine all the various things that could be going on at any one instant. One small attempt to forever capture one instant of this metropolitan is ‘03:11 PM’.
-WHAT
It is to share with so many of your neighbors what was going on in your part Chennai at the same time as something else was going on in theirs. There are no requisites to do this, other than that you be in Chennai, whether it be a fancy SLR or a VGA mobile camera, get the clearest, cleanest shot you can that will suggest what you were doing or what was going on near you, in our lovely city, at that one instant.
If you wish to contribute, synchronize your watch, set reminders and alarms and just remember to shoot that moment. Please attach a note, in under 50 words, with your name and where you were when you clicked that snap. Uploading procedure is here.
You can also lend a hand by informing your friends and by putting up a link on your website. We wish to make not just a collection but a memory, on the internet and if we can, have it published to share with as many Chennaiites as we can,’03:11 PM’.