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The Challenge: Take one self portrait each day for a year.

Do you think you have what it takes?

Emily recently told me about this social phenomenon happening over at Flickr where members try and do just that. Their goal is to take at least one photograph of themselves each day and submit it to the Flickr group. Sure, it might sound easy at first. I mean, how hard is it to take a picture of yourself? But do you think you can do that every day, for a year?

Well, that is exactly what the instigator of this task set out to do. Steven Poff, who also sells his artwork on Imagekind, decided to take up the challenge well before there was even a Flickr group dedicated to the craziness. After starting the project in 2006, there are now over 9,000 members of the group. If you are working on your own 365 day set, then leave us a comment with the links!

Travis, Emily and I found this quite fascinating and decided to try it out ourselves. However, let’s be honest, we soon realized we don’t all have the resilience necessary for this extreme challenge. So instead, we decided to change things up a bit, and now we need your help!

Instead of one self portrait everyday for a year, we decided to do one self portrait for one day of the year; today! Also, to make things even more crazy (since it is Friday), we changed the medium from photography, to illustration, and have all drawn our self portrait.

We had quite the argument around here as to whose was the best, so we thought we’d elicit your opinions, to help us determine without bias, who has the best mug. Check ‘em out below.

Make sure you vote for which one you think is the best!

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Emily

Travis

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There have been some very interesting articles published recently in the New York Times that provide insightful ideas and resources for collecting and selling original and limited edition artwork.

Image: After the Storm @ Sunset

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Art is an essential item for every interior. Not only does artwork pull a room together visually, it also helps express who you are by displaying your unique style. However, there is often a certain level of anxiety that surrounds our pursuit of finding artwork. This can be caused by anything from being bashful about explicitly expressing our style on our walls for everyone who visits to see, to simply not knowing what kind of artwork you particularly like.

Image: Masquerade by Tony P

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If you can sympathize, take a look at the articles below. And, let me help calm your anxiety with a not-so-subtle suggestion of where to find artwork from some of the top independent, emerging and established artists from around the world.

Note: In order to read the complete stories, you may need to register with the New York Times, which is free and relatively quick and easy.

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The Terrible Toll of Art Anxiety

By Joyce Walder

Many would-be art buyers are intimidated by galleries, worried about making unfashionable choices or otherwise unable to commit to a purchase.

Easing the Pain of Collecting

By Julie Scelfo

Jen Bekman’s goals include encouraging a broader swath of people to feel comfortable buying art.

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