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Bill Pador > "Join a World Wide Experiment"
*(Long But PLEASE READ)*
Hello Everyone, I have been thinking about this project for a LONG time now and I would like to present my idea to you all. First I'd like you to meet my good luck charm, "Smiling Joe" (shot in HDR during a private moment when I caught him reading MY magazine. Everything must have went well, he's SMILING LOL Anyone have a match?). This little fellow has been a part of my business career for the last 12 years and has brought me tons of luck & success with all my business decisions. He sits on top of my desk over seeing the daily operations here at Bill Pador Photography and also my previous business which was Z-Rated Motorsports when I raced cars & sold high performance parts.

What I want to do is to send 'Smiling Joe' on a World Wide Adventure to visit as many corners of the world during the Spring & Summer of 2009 and to have his photo taken at every stop on his journey along with creating a log/diary of his adventure. At the conclusion of his trip he will be placed back in my office where he belongs but will be surrounded by a complete collage of the images along with a copy of his journal for one of the coolest conversational pieces for my clients & friends to read & enjoy and I will also create a special gallery on my site as a promotional piece including everyone of you who participates, including your images, links to your web sites and posting the journal entries that you make while you have 'Smiling Joe' in your possession to create a virtual 'ROAD MAP' of his journey. I will also attempt to submit the full story & images with every one's name & web site to some of the worlds most popular photo magazines who may be interested in doing a story on this experiment ! Think of the possibilities of having your name & web site being seen by 10's of thousands of people. If not for anything else it will be a ton of fun to see how creative people can get with 'Joe' and how many miles he will travel during his journey.
* * If your Interested READ ON * *
My plan is this:
1) Collect a list of fellow photographers who want to be part of this project & be part of history, show off their creativity, have some fun and possibly have their work seen by tons of folks around the world.

2) Once I have a list of artists/photographers who want to participate I will map out "Joe's Journey" and plot the trip trying to make him cross the United States and then head over the pond for his over seas trip and then finally returning to good old New Jersey. The trip will take place over the Spring & summer and hopefully return by Fall.

3) The trip will be documented & mapped out using 'Google Earth' with the total mileage he traveled, the time it took to criss cross the world and other fun statistics. The images will be placed in the gallery in REAL TIME when I get them so everyone can track his journey as it happens !

4) Each photographer will get to have 'Smiling Joe' for minimum of 72 hours and will be responsible for shooting him in various places, such as Historical Landmarks you may live by, Outdoors with scenic back drops such as mountain ranges, extreme weather, at family events such as parties, weddings or even while your vacationing or business trip etc. You will be required to shoot him in at least (3) different locations using your own creativity as your guide so that 'Joe' gets to have a good time while on his trip. Take him horse back riding, take his picture in front of the Golden Gate Bridge or Mountain Range, sitting in a vintage car (Matt), make him part of your cultural celebration, take him out to dinner or your favorite watering hole, just use your imagination & creativity to show 'Joe' having a good time like you would any other friend! LOL The use your own post production techniques to bring the images to life in your own way, then pack him back up in his tiny box and send him off to the next person on the list, simple as that!

5) 'Joe' will travel with a small note book/journal so that you can document what you did with him and how much fun he had while in your company. Again use your creativity while writing the story, make it funny, make it sad, just make it interesting. We have enough characters in the daily group who know how to make us laugh with their own image commentaries so I know it will be an interesting read when it's finished. You don't need to write a book, just a few short paragraphs about what 'Joe' did during his stay with you.

6) Joe has room on his back for each of you to Autograph him, so toss your mark on his back to show he's been with greatness and some of the best photographers/artists & friends in the world that I know.

SIMPLE REQUIREMENTS:
To participate, the only thing you will be required to do is take his photos & email them to me, write a quick story in the journal and send him on to the next person after having him for a few days. I will include a pre-printed mailing list & labels IN ORDER of where 'Joe' is to be sent to next, just pack him up in the same box and ship him to the next artist. It will only cost most of you a few bucks to mail him since he only weighs 67 grams and is a little bigger then a pack of cigarettes. I would need to know who would be willing to be the one to send him over seas which might cost a few extra dollars so I can map out who the last person in the United States will be to have him. Then I would need to know who is willing over seas to send him to the next country once I have the total list of people and what countries he will be traveling to. This will all be worked out before his journey starts to make sure everyone is ok with the small fees. I estimate that shipping will be around $2.00 - $3.00 for each USA participant and maybe $8.00 $10.00 to ship him over seas and/or from country to country.

"IF YOUR INTERESTED"
Please post your Interest here in the comments, Just Post a YES I wanna play and the STATE/COUNTRY you live in for all to see. Then please send ME a personal "EMAIL NOW BY CLICKING HERE" or (billpador@gmail.com) enclose your FULL NAME & MAILING ADDRESS so I can add you to the mailing list and if your willing to ship 'JOE' over seas if your the last one in the U.S.A. or CANADA to get him or from overseas back to the USA and I will send you an email back with more information.

Don't forget to pass this info on to your other SmugMug Buddies !
That's It ! Like I said I have been wanting to do this for YEARS and I have finally planned it all out to make my idea a reality and I would like you all to be part of it. It should be a LOT of fun seeing the gallery of where JOE travels to and where he gets his picture taken and the story book should be a blast to read. I hope you all want to be part of this, lets get this started and have some fun !!!

~Bill~

"Smiling Joe Hits Some Skins"

Yes this is my Drum Kit that JOE has jumped on, it's a 'GRETSCH' Birch Custom with a few extra pieces added on with 10 cymbal's mostly SABIAN AAX cymbals with 1 Paste and a Zildjian 'CUSTOM' 20' PING RIDE (Sweet Cymbal) & 'EVANS' "EC2" Double Layer Gel Heads, , 'IRON COBRA' Double Bass & High Hat pedals. It took me about 8 sets of different heads before I found these Ec2's to make it sound the way I wanted but now it is PERFECT and I get a lot of compliments on it's tone. Do we have any other drummers out there ?

"ATTENTION">
You have all got to see THIS IMAGE BY Angela Davis Then READ MY COMMENT to her and see if you like this idea, I know I LOVE IT. Some things were just meant to be I guess LOL !!!

"UPDATE: Smiling Joe will be traveling with SHORTY "

Again, Thanks to everyone who responded to the 'SMILING JOE' World Wide Travel Project yesterday, it was an over whelming response to say the least. Joe presently has "43 stops" scheduled

Here's a list of Joe's Destinations so far:
5 Ohio, 3 CO, 2 MA, 3 PA, 4 TX, IL, NE, UT, VA, IA, OR, 2 NJ, 4 CA, LA, FL, NC, MI, Canada, 2 United Kingdom, 1 France, 1 Belgium, 1 India

MISSING ADDERSSES

As far as I can tell from the sign up list yesterday I am missing the following peoples information, please email me your Name, Mailing Address & Email info (& screen name if different so I can cross match)
ASAP Please to billpador@gmail.com:

JESSE
Jean-Yves (IFocus)
YellowRosePhotography

*(List updated 2/15 @ 2:30pm)

Please if you responded on my Daily but DID NOT send me a personal email with your full Name, Mailing Address and email address please do so now because It is difficult for me to sort out who did not send their information trying to cross match your screen names with your real information. List it like this (so I can copy & paste into main list):

Joe Shmoe
123 Pine St.
Hunkville, Fl.
jshmoe@usa.com

Once I have every one's information I can begin to plan out JOE'S trip and better get an idea of how to plan his route. If you haven't signed up for this project and would like to please send me your Name, Mailing address & email address via email. You can CLICK HERE TO EMAIL or send it directly to billpador@gmail.com

I'm still looking for countries in the areas of Asia, China, Japan, India so if you or a friend lives in those areas and would like to participate please contact me ASAP. Full information on this project can be found on yesterdays daily image BY CLICKING HERE

Best Regards,
~Bill Pador~

MISSING ADDERSSES

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