greenideas

This month, I’ll be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Expe­r­i­month project. The main thrust of Expe­r­i­month is that for every month in 2009, par­tic­i­pants will do some­thing they (prob­a­bly) don’t nor­mally do every day in that month and record their expe­ri­ence. For instance, January’s exper­i­ment was to eat only raw foods for the entire month.

This month’s exper­i­ment, called “The Eyes of March” involves tak­ing or mak­ing a pic­ture of some­thing every day. If you want to fol­low along, there’s a Flickr group for the project.

Of course, every exper­i­ment needs a hypoth­e­sis, so here’s mine: I’m guess­ing (and indeed hop­ing) that being on the look­out for things to take pic­tures of every day will make me more mind­ful of the visual impact of things that I look at all the time and don’t pay very much atten­tion to. So if by the end of the month, I’ve been able to look at the things around me and notice some­thing new and or impor­tant about even a few of them, then the exper­i­ment will have been a suc­cess. If any­thing like that hap­pens, I’ll be sure to make a note of it here.