With the end of Project 365 rapidly approaching (I’ll blog about the project itself separately), the obvious question arises: What’s next?

As I can’t quite get used to the project ending and me sitting bored on my hands all day (ha, ha) I am considering doing something similar next year. There are several (serious or not so serious) options on the table:

• Project 365, the rebirth: Another year of photos? As if there’s anything I haven’t shown to my readers yet
• American oddities: Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, a friend suggested we need more stories comparing US and German tissues. There is, of course, plenty of opportunity to point out inferior American products cultural differences, though admittedly, that has been done before…
• Project 52: (don’t hate on the horrendous code name). In this case, I’d post a photo per week rather than day, giving me more time to take several shots in various places and decide which one I like the most, possibly polish it up on the computer, and post a photo a week that I think is actually pretty good.
• Project 360-365: The frequency is to be debated, but the general idea is, posting a series of panoramas. Daily is probably too frequent (after all, panoramas take some time to make) and it’d be a very limited type of photography, but it’s still an option.
• A blog a day: What the name says. A new blog post every day? That of course wouldn’t exclude pictures, but would make it more about the writing than the picture. Project 365 was the other way around.
• Anything else?

These are all the ideas I’ve collected thus far. I am interested to hear what you think! Of course, not all of these make any sense at all, so feel free to mock them if you wish but honest comments are appreciated, too. Thanks!

Today I took a panorama picture of the space around my desk at the office (courtesy of Pano). The quality of the stitching is a little worse than what I am used to from using Hugin (a full-blown panorama software), but you can’t beat the instantly-on-your-phone experience.

Of course, in order to really see the photo, you might have to check it out in the original size. Also featured in the shot: Mike Kelly, busy making awesome web apps.

This photo I took with a super cool little Android app named Paper Camera. It lets you take photos that essentially look like they are pencil drawings. Too cool. This effect also adds a little pop-art effect to it. I like it!

Two strangers, having a blast at the Mountain View Farmers’ Market.

I like the picture: I think it captures a candid moment very well. What’s not so great is the partial blurriness and the high DOF, which makes it feel kind of busy. That said, perhaps that’s exactly what one can expect from a place frequented by so many people.

As promised, we decorated our Christmas tree today! This is me, admiring my reflection while the Missus is focused on putting some more ornaments on the tree. Heh!

(This is the part when my visitors are relieved that I wore pants while decorating, I know).

I know all my readers are just dying to read about German-American oddities, so here it goes. These are some average American facial tissues next to their sophisticated, distant German relatives that they wished they were like. “What?”, you’re asking, “Fred is a tissue elitist”? Hardly. But when you have a cold, it comes in handy when your trusty tissues don’t just pretend to act as a barrier between nose and hand. As is customary, this can be described in a single German key word: “durchschnupfsicher” (safe from sniffling through).

Obviously, right after the Occupy movement has successfully eradicated all social problems from modern society, we’ll move on to the second biggest issue: Inferior facial tissues.

Thanks to a carefully wordsmithed warning message, the Mushroom People Hefeweizen survived three days in a shared fridge at work (a new record) and was consumed today.

I must say, this was some fine, fine brew. Beeradvocate agrees. (On a side note, sometimes I think about getting an account there and write about my beer tasting experience, but I fear that neither would my palate be able to detect all the notes people routinely point out in their reports, nor would my vocabulary suffice for the colorful descriptions used therein. Sadface.)

Achievement unlocked: This year’s Christmas tree acquired and set up. Next: Decorating!