One of the greatest aspects of my academic blog while doing my field work in India was learning how to better connect with people online. I have come across some great people, including Shara, who is mentioned a few times on this blog. Shara was an awesome find! She has a great idea for a new project she is starting, a lot of the ideas coming from my own avatar framework from my Ghana project, and she could use some support! I just got this facebook message from her last week and thought I would include it on this blog:
Hi Rachel. How are you doing back in school? Adjusted from the awesome life of a traveler? :-)
Just wanted you to know that I am launching a kickstarter project for a book I want to publish of writing and photography. It was thinking about your avatar concept about how we see the world differently with different parts of our personality and careers that gave me kind of an epiphany about how I document the world. When I write, I write about all the sadness and suffering and that's what I "see" in words. When I photograph, I shoot postcard-type images, the beautiful things whether it's architecture or nature and I see beauty in image. My book idea is to balance this duality. So anyway, know that your project really had an impact on me and mine. I'll be launching it next week, but I have a FAQ online if you're interested in checking it out. Once it's live (hopefully next week), if you feel inspired to share it with your friends, I wouldn't complain. :-)
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