Hi Nokia Art Jam 2 Jammers,

It's been over six months since the jam, and you may notice that the final collage page still hasn't come out.

Unfortunately this year has been very challenging for my health and freelance career, and I've not had the time for most of my extra curricular activities. I wasn't expecting 154 entries, some with up to five images, in so many different formats (zipped, jpegs, pngs, included as screenshots, etc) and it makes even collecting and tagging the images a monumental task.

I've got sketches of the final page. I recognise it is important to some artists as a piece for their portfolio; this means that instead of it just being a summary of my favourite pieces as originally intended it will need to be several which include all submissions. The image will eventually be made (and, with grace, before the next jam).

I won't send this post out as an email so as not to get anyone's hopes up (though if you have announcements for community posts turned on, you may get a ping anyway - sorry about that) - but the project hasn't been abandoned.

Thank you for your patience, and I hope to see you at the end of this very long, dark tunnel.

-PDX

It took me a few hours to download all 393 images and name them and sort and resize them. After collecting them all together I found there were just too many images to make into a magazine spread without missing some of them. So I've made a magazine page where artists can display their image for social media and portfolios. The above image's license is CC-BY-NC-SA which, in a nut shell, means you can modify it (put your art on it) and share it (like on social media) with attribution (it's already written on the image) for non-commercial purposes (you can't sell it).

Nokia Art Jam's new mascot is Nykkia the bomb cat  *~(>:D)

The jam will return again this year, details to follow soon.

In other news, work is keeping me busy and my health is much improved. Keep pushing those pixels!

-PDX