Happy Holidays everyone!

A couple of updates for you. On December 26 [Boxing Day here in Canada], Emmi Jormalainen left Camera #125 where Santa lives! She left the camera Under the Christmas tree on Santa Claus Village, in Rovaniemi, Finland, in the Arctic Circle. According to Wikipedia, the Santa Claus Village is claimed to be where Santa lives, and Rovaniemi is home to the world’s most northerly McDonald’s.

According to Google Maps, the Santa Claus Village is further north than McDonald’s, which means that the camera was placed further North than any McDonald’s.  In your face Micky D’s!

Hopefully, someone will find the camera under the tree and make sure it makes it’s way back! Camera #85, was placed at the entrance to Santa House in North Pole, Alaska in September of 2007, but never made it back. I have a feeling that Santa is hoarding cameras from The Project, and, obviously houses!

And, unrelatedly, recently, Barbie Hauzinger came across The Anonymous Photo Project and has decided to Help Spread the Project. Thanks Barbie!

Whoops, I totally forgot to mention that Camera #123 was returned with this sticky:

“Taken in Helsinki on 14.8.2008 during ‘Art Goes Kapakka’ openning night.”

Way back in August, Emmi Jormalainen left Camera #123 at the opening of the Art Goes Kapakka Festival at Senate Square in Helsinki, Finland – the first Finnish camera!

Well, after a short time, it came back to Project HQ on September 10, 2008. 

There’s crowds. There’s hamming it up for the camera. There’s the “Out ‘N Loud” crew. And – best of all – they’re hanging out in the Helsinki Drinking District!