My Project

Hello Reader,
Just a brief overview of my project, which you can read about more on the About page: my goal is to bring together the Austin community to make 1,000,000 cranes by John Lennon's birthday, October 9 2011. My reasoning is that if everyone in the greater Austin area made just one crane, we would already have about 5,000,000 cranes, right? 

So the project is just getting the word out about peace and unity, mainly. There's a lot of things that go into making this many cranes: getting the paper (preferably reused from old paperwork, otherwise recycled), making each paper into squares (I find that I can make 8 cranes out of an 8 1/2 x 11 standard sheet of paper), actually making the cranes, getting the word out, dropping off cranes, and all that good stuff. At the end, I'm going to set up posts at different points in the city and have people write their wishes on the wings of the cranes-- any wish they want. After I collect back the cranes, I will send them to Yoko Ono, who will make the cranes into a work of art. 

 <-- Yoko and John fighting for peace

I started this project on April 8, 2011. There's a countdown to how many days we have left, and a counter for how many cranes I've counted. I'd love any help I can get on this project. Please help unify our community in creating something beautiful and peaceful for our lives! :) Thank you!


Love,
Eve