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December 23, 2007
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DAILY PHOTOS on Planet Waves depict quotidian existence, whether it occurs on a city street or cornfield. Spirit's instructions for the page are to depict peaceful human reality, as if illustrating the scenes of our lives for a future record, or a fun mirror of now... more |
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Design from the original front cover of Planet Waves. Prior cover: Face painting.
Today is the ninth birthday of Planet Waves. I posted the first website under the name Planet Waves in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey on this day in 1998. Someone named Keiko Ito was sitting there with me, and Neal McDonough was close by. The Macintosh 7200 was given to me by my old friend Allan Rousselle, who first worked with me on Generation at SUNY Buffalo.
Planet Waves has been through the dot com boom, the dot com bust, Internets 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, and quite a few changes of our own. Hundreds of talented people work or have worked with us from about 15 different countries. Thousands have subscribed from every state and many countries of the world.
At the time I first published the site, the notion of "subscriber supported internet" seemed out of reach. Today for us, it is a reality. We are first and foremost a more-than-virtual community of people who do what we love, and/or what we must do. Financially, Planet Waves thrives because your subscriptions support our technical and creative team, all of whom work far beyond the call of duty. Some of our most talented contributors volunteer.
Philosophically, I view us as a breeding ground for art and ideas that stir the pot and who knows, maybe that will help humanity make it to the next stage of our evolution.
To everyone who is taking this journey with us, spent nights in the wilderness exploring our pages, sent in a thank you note, a dollar or $5,000, worked all night with me for years on end, did things over 14 times so we could do it right, invited me for dinner or showed up to hang out at 2 am -- thank you with all my heart.
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Capricorn Solstice, 2007
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