The You are Here Project is a documentary project by Blue Chevigny and Flynn Larsen. They're driving across the country, with no set destination in mind, "looking for truer and more subtle stories of ordinary Americans at this moment in history."

In each new city they are posting to their blog unedited picture and audio clips. When they return to New York they'll put their multimedia assets through a more rigorous post production, but while they're on the road their blog is a good fit as a casual method of distribution.

I love this project for a few reasons. First and foremost, it is a simple expression of one the core competencies of blogs - helping people connect and communicate more easily. I also love the minimum role that we had on the project as tech advisors. We did design an "admin" screen where Flynn and Blue could add new stops (with links and thumbnails) to the front page, but that was the extent of the programming and design involved. We spent more time working with the team talking through their needs, and we ultimately settled on a much simpler solution than we initially expected to, mainly using Vox instead of Movable Type.