We suppose as with most things, The Head Project too must ebb and flow. There are periods of time we have nothing to update on but the fact that we are waiting; waiting for the postal service to deliver a head, waiting for a contributor to mail a head, waiting for a contributor to post an update or merely waiting for our next paycheck here at THP HQ. And then there exist those moments when everything is happening all at once.

This is one such moment.

001 Francesco Parolin finished up with 001 and due to some issues with his Flickr, we’ve uploaded them to ours here. We’re constantly amazed at the creative response to The Head Project and Francesco’s contributions are no different. In fact, his photos actually gave us an idea but we’re not going to tell you what it is yet.

By Francesco Parolin

He’s turned the head over to Sara Lando who participated in the first installment of The Head Project, the travelingheadproject. Which reminds us, we still have a LOT of old contribution photos that we need to show you! Sara has already started updating her Flickr set and we’re excited to see what else she’s got planned.

002 After a longer wait than we anticipated, Dan Busta has mailed out 002. He’s excited about his contribution and so are we. But in his own words, “I’ll get it up asap.. which in my terms might be a while!” We had to laugh. At least he’s honest.

Almost as soon as Chrissie White received 002 in the mail, she started shooting. She’s already offered us an initial forray into her world and although she claims, “… I’ve got no ideas” we’re still pretty excited. Her first photo has already been viewed nearly 2,400 times as well as received over 100 comments and 183 people have called it a favorite!! We’d say for having no ideas, she’s doing fine. Plus we love it… and that’s all that really matters.

003 After having been detained by the customs office in Iceland for some time, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir finally got the head. She’s even claimed she knows what she’s going to do with it and if this photo is in fact a reference to The Head Project, we’re curious. We should know in a week or so. We’ll keep you posted!

004 We had asked Justin Rodgers to hold on to 004 until we lined up the next contributor, to which he responded, “No complaints here.” With 46 THP photos to his name, it’s obvious that he’d been enjoying himself. In the words of Carey Kirk, one of our previous THP contributors:

“Justin took the head, and just went with it. I love the versatility and craft in all of his … Head Project photos. I can feel the excitement both from Justin and the project exuding from these prints. Amazing!”

We agree. But sadly, his run with 004 has come to an end and it’s time to ship it off to Loren Carlile from Coppell, TX!