I just found out I got an A on my Waldo Project! I am glad I took a chance and did a left field project like this.
I have been busy preparing for my exhibition of this project for my Graduation Exhibit opening on May 3rd.
I just found out I was in the LA times! I am going to [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 25, 2008
I got an A!
April 20, 2008
Fun Stuff!
My classmate Nancy Strider has made a you tube video based off the footage she collected while volunteering in pretty much every step of my project. She has shown some video clips documenting Waldo’s construction and success. Thank you Nancy for this video and all your help!
Ian Chillag of NPR’s The [...]
April 14, 2008
The World Joins in the Game!
The blog posts about Waldo keep flooding in! There is far more than I can list here but highlights from the past few days include Wired (US), GQ, Google Earth Blog, The Mail on Sunday (UK), IOL Diaro (Portugal), Gizmodo, Mineki (Japan/Canada) and even my school, Emily Carr Institute has blogged about it.
I went into the [...]
April 12, 2008
More Waldos?
I have had two people emaling today saying they and their friends want to create their own versions of rooftop Waldos! One in Phoenix AZ, and one in New Orleans! This is great, and I hope they begin popping up in many cities! My intention is to create a PDF of instructions and provide the grid, so [...]
April 11, 2008
Waldo Hits the Dailies!
Waldo and I were on the cover of two daily newspapers here in Vancouver, The Vancouver Sun and 24 Hours. On my way home from class I saw three people in a row reading newspapers with my Waldo on the cover! The story was also mentioned on Jack FM, News 1130, The Beat 94.5, Global [...]
April 10, 2008
Waldo Jumps Back onto the Page!
One intention of my project was to re-contextualise Waldo from a paper medium to the web, but it seems like he’s going to be back in print! The Vancouver Sun did a photo shoot and interview with me this morning. There will be a feature on my Waldo in tommorows issue! There will also be [...]
April 9, 2008
Waldo is famous in Brazil too!?
Apparently the biggest news station in Brazil is covering my Waldo! That is so funny and great! It seems most cultures know Waldo and some call him Wally! I had hoped this project would become viral and apparently it has! According to Andre, Rede Globo is the third biggest news station in the world!
Here [...]
April 7, 2008
Waldo gets famous!
Wow, today has been an exciting day for my Waldo project! I was just on the rooftop doing a shoot for CBC TV. The segment will be on air tonight at 6, and possibly tommorow at noon! I will also post a digital verison here if it becomes available.
Also lots of blogs have written about [...]
April 3, 2008
An Article About My Waldo
Nancy Strider who has been working closely with me on this project has written an article about the project on her blog Came of Age Before Computers. Its a great article and post links to simular projects and earth works. She posted a image of a giant homer simpson earth work!
