About The Mirror Project

The Mirror Project began life as the awkwardly titled "Friends of Jezebel's Mirror," or FOJM, an adjunct site to Heather Champ's Jezebel's Mirror in October '99.

Poor planning and lack of foresight created an hand coded unsearchable frames based behemoth as the collection of photographs and stories grew well beyond her expectations.

FOJM relaunched as the Mirror Project in June of 2001 with just over seven hundred contributions and we continue to grow daily. Thousands of people from around the world continue to support the The Mirror Project by capturing photographs of themselves in all manner of reflective surfaces. We love you.

Why reflective self-portraiture? This interview that Heather did with O, the Oprah Magazine might shed some light on the matter.

And who's to blame? It's all Heather's fault. She designed the front end, edits the submissions and invites the Guest Curators. Blame her if you catch yourself taking a second look at that mirror. Don't worry, you're not alone.

Aaron Straup Cope has created the back end wonder for this incarnation of The Mirror Project. Aaron is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montrealais au fond. Aaron scored Obi Wan Kenobi on one Star Wars personality test and Yoda on another. Once upon a time, Aaron was still a painter.

RSS
The Mirror Project uses the Rich Site Summary (RSS) format to syndicate the most recent additions to the database. You can use information this to track changes to the Mirror Project on your own website, or using any of the many third-party RSS aggregators/viewers available on the Internet.

There are feeds available, via http, for RSS versions 1.0, 0.91, and 0.9.

Notes for the wonkish : The <description> tag contains weird random stuff (read: html wrapped in <![CDATA[]]> tags.) This may or may not cause you grief, depending on your point of view. People writing book reports will want to consult "The Evolution of RSS".

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