November 27, 2007
Shoot Your Neighbors
Oh my. This site sounded much more enthralling before we delved further. Still, it's interesting -- ripe with community-building spirit and harmonious stuff like that.
Curbed SF brought to our attention the following site: Shoot Your Neighbors. It seems that the good folks over at SYN want you to "1) download and print the words to this Sesame Street classic; 2) take photographs of the people in your neighborhood, 3) Email said shots of your photogenic (or not) neighbors here." And that's it.
Well, this sure sounds smurfy. That is, unless you're shy; you're trying to stop that knife-brandishing stalker from showing up at your door at 3:30 a.m.; or you're us. Other than that, it's a bang-up idea, and we look forward to seeing it grow.
Image credit: Shoot Your Neighbors / Heather Powazek Champ & Derek Powazek
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On a related tangent, www.NeighborsProject.org has great tips for acting local and building a strong community. I'm trying my best in Rincon Hill ... :)
I plan on visiting my mom in Burlingame, walking the 9 blocks to Ed's house, and getting a pic taken there. For the folks in the Sunset. Who's in?
Oh yea, if that site didn't suck it might be good.
When I put up the site, I got an inflammatory email about the "Mission" photos, saying that it didn't really reflect what the real Mission was like. Of course it did reflect what my pocket of the Mission felt like to me.
I look forward to receiving new submissions and seeing a lot more perspectives of the same streets at www.shootyourneighbors.com.
Thanks for the mention, Brock.