A Six Step Guide to the One World Wallet Initiative

[Haydn Shaughnessy]

First, thanks for taking the trouble to learn more about OWW. You're very welcome. You can upload photographs and blog posts and you can use the material here to make art or inform your work.

Buying the wallet contributes to the upkeep of this community - for example we pay $20 a month to keep it advertising free.

We think the site is an exciting concept for a network of creatively inclined people. But we're always feeling our way and hoping for ideas to make this better - largely hoping that you too can help engage with other people.

Why the OWW?

Over the past decade we've been having a blow-out with spending. Now we want to bring art into your day, through your wallet but also through your participation in creating social media art! What is social media art? Art created through online conversations.

OWW is an initiative of the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery and Jon Coffelt. Jon has produced a collection of art wallets created out of different coloured duct tape.

It's a wallet and it's a piece of art and it symbolises the types of conversation we want to have here. It will probably go everywhere with you - most wallets do so it could become a special part of your life. And it let's you get noticed how you spend not what you buy! The point of the network is to tell a story about how your life is changing and create more art through telling that story.

Second,this network is here to share any part of your story AS WELL AS TO MEET LIKE MINDED PEOPLE, DISCUSS LIFE IN GENERAL, OR SUGGEST WAYS WE CAN UTILISE THE WALLETS AND YOUR STORIES IN ART WORKS. One idea is to create an installation that combines some of the members words and Jon's wallets. That's why we say Be a Part of the Art.

Third,by joining you get the opportunity to download Jon Coffelt art work now and as the project develops. You get download instructions with your paypal receipt. On top of that though you can use this material - anyone joining agrees to a creative commons use of their photography and text. So you can also take the lead in creating new art.

Fourth, every time someone buys a wallet we will be creating a Wallet Wall, that is an installation made of wallets in the virtual space Second Life. The Second Life wallets are virtual wallets and the location is our gallery in Second Life, Ten Cubed.

The wall is a reference point for the project and we'll post images of it periodically here which you are free to download, authenticate and print. The first Wallet Wall prints, free with your wallet, are taken from an installation we launched on April 24th 2008 in Ten Cubed.

We recommend printing your downloads in an 8* x 8" format on archival paper. But we're not dictators - you can use archival paper, regular paper, or photographic paper. You decide how you want it to look. Of course with a digital file you can print many times but please read our FAQ before you do. Don't forget to look at the Terms and Conditions too.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR QUERIES ON THE PRINTING PROCESS, PLEASE GO TO THE FORUMS AND THE FAQ. REMEMBER THIS IS A COMMUNITY AND IT'S BEST TO CAST THE NET AROUND WHEN ASKING FOR HELP.

Fifth, if you want to return your wallet so that Jon can use it in a physical installation then feel free to do so at any time. He is interested in creating installations from worn wallets.

Finally. We'll pick up on your ideas for how the wallets can be used in an arts context so feel free to discuss that in your blogs and in the forums.

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