The design we did for the Histories of Newark: 1758-2008 has a 1″ strip that we want to run through the middle every page of book to give the book an extra bit of humanity. Here is how it will look.

We are planning to photograph at least 3,000 citizens. Over the first day we got exactly 100 to agree. It might take us a bit of time to get the word out so it isn’t as much work to get people to participate. Here are 8 of our favorites from the first day of shooting.

We will be shooting at the former CVS building at 108 East Main Street in Newark from Noon - 8:00 pm every FRIDAY and SATURDAY through May 5. PLEASE come by and bring a group with you. Choir, fraternity, football team (uniforms would be great), Brownies troop, families, dogs, of course bikes, etc.

This was a group of activists riding through the streets of Newark on their bikes and rollerblades to heighten awareness for the need for alternatives to gasoline powered transportation.

We had a Wilmington News Journal reporter and photographer at our photoshoot and things were completely dead. No one. Then we see this group slowing down traffic (actually they were probably keeping up as well as anyone) and we flagged them down with the promise that “We can promote your cause.” It was a pretty amazing moment. We think the News Journal will do a story just on them.

We were giving out suckers so we just threw the bag in front of a group of four and they threw them in the air.

Anytime people were a couple we asked that they look like it. These two did that quite nicely.

A 4-H group was planting flowers in front of the Post Office just down the street and stopped in, wheelbarrows, shovels, petunias, dog and all.

“So, what can we do?” “We could jump.”

Two U of DE students stopped in right after their yoga class. A bit of talk and voila.

This guy had been hiking the Appalachian Trail and had fallen and had a serious buise he wanted to show us.

The last guy just had his iPod on and broke into an iPod commercial.

100 down. 2,900 to go.

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