It’s been said (by Russell Davies, no less) that in order to properly do our jobs we have to be interesting.  Interesting has become “something of a mandate“— true whether we’re talking about the marketing content we create, or the manner in which we do our jobs, or just being human.

In a continuing quest to get outside of myself and find more and varied sources of interesting, I took advice from Davies and Photojojo:

1) “Inspiration isn’t in what you look at, it’s in how you look” (Davies interviewed in Creative Generalist).

2) Project 365 (Photojojo), where you take one picture every day for a year, because “you’ll become more creative… when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day”

With that as an intro, have a look at this:

There is one particular wall on Greene St near the office that seems to attract a lot of artists. (Though, thinking about it, what wall in Soho doesn’t seem to attract a lot of artists?) So rather than taking a different picture every day, I’m taking the same picture every day — a time-lapse documentary of a collectively-created living work of art.

In further pursuit of interesting, I’m also interested in acknowledging all the various artists who contributed to the wall (and hence, the video). Readers of the Wooster Collective have been nice enough to help me identify a good chunk of them, but there are still more to go. If you do recognize someone’s work, would you please leave a note or comment on the Chemical Warfare Project Flickr set?

This has the potential to be an infinitely iterative project, so with any luck you’ll see more “phases” of the project in coming months.

But for now…  interesting?