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General Update

It’s been a while since I posted any kind of update regarding All That Glitters. I’m pleased with the progress so far, but I also realize there is much more work ahead of me.

When I began All That Glitters in June 2009 I set a goal to complete 100 portrait sessions across the United States by June 2010. To date I have completed 58 sessions throughout the Midwest, including Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Detroit and St. Louis, as well as Memphis.

I will travel to Minneapolis later this month and will visit cities throughout the East and West Coasts in the months following. I am currently funding the project on my own, but am actively seeking opportunities to make the completion of the project financially feasible.

In addition to completing the remaining portrait and interview sessions, my goal is to create a multi-media presentation of the content through a coffee table book, a documentary film, and gallery shows in cities across the country.

I have begun mapping out an intense road trip that will cover the East Coast and southern states, leaving only the West Coast to conquer. At the moment it appears likely I’ll take on the East Coast in the early Spring and head West during the Summer.

But wait, doesn’t that mean I’ll miss my June 2010 deadline? Possibly, but if I have the East Coast completed by that time, I will have gathered the majority of the content with only a handful of cities remaining on the West Coast. Either way, it’s good news to me because, without any outside funding, I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage to get to either coast. To finally see a cost-efficient plan on paper that can get me most of the way through the project makes me happy.

What’s next? Continue capturing content and edit, edit, edit. I have photos to sort through, videos to edit, transcripts to capture, and ultimately a script to assemble from all of the videos so that I can start putting together the final presentation.