Friday
Jun202008
Photos of the Week - Starting Sunday
Friday, June 20, 2008 at 6:34AM
This was inspired by a website I was reminded of by the latest episode of Spark. It's called Some Photos of That Day.
I had seen this site and a related blog entry quite awhile ago, but listening to the originator of the site talk about it really made me want to do something similar. The subject of the site is Jamie Livingston, here's his wikipedia entry:
What's so interesting about this site is seeing the highs, lows, and expansive mediocrity of someone else's life. This is especially well punctuated by the fact that starting on May 2, 1997 he begins his losing battle with cancer. Enroute to his death he ties up loose ends, including proposing to, and marrying his girlfriend which is expressed in the photo of the ring above and subsequent photos of the marriage.
The last photo shows his friend playing music for him in his hospital room before he dies the following day.
Now I don't expect to die anytime soon, but I think that having relevant photos of a large part of my life would be valuable to me and interesting to others. I'm not expecting it to be overly artistic, but only for it show what I've been up to.
When I started writing this post a few days ago I was going to take a photo each day and post them here. However, after thinking about it, I don't want to be spamming my blog with photos of what I had for dinner on a daily basis.
by static416
Instead I'm going to still try to take some photos everyday, and then on Sunday's I'll post a selection of them with a few words about the context and maybe what I did that week. Luckily my life is not very interesting so the posts will be brief.
For a quick taste of what you've got coming to you, here's a photo I took of the cold medicine section of the pharmacy I was in while I waited for Steph to get her birth control (I hear that her and her boyfriend have pre-martial sexual intercourse).
by static416
I had seen this site and a related blog entry quite awhile ago, but listening to the originator of the site talk about it really made me want to do something similar. The subject of the site is Jamie Livingston, here's his wikipedia entry:
Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956-October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer who from March 31, 1979 through to the day of his death on October 25, 1997 took a Polaroid photograph every day.[1]
Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' photographic diary started at Bard College and though some photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain. The collection, dated in sequence, has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College called "JAMIE LIVINGSTON. PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997", which opened in 2007.
What's so interesting about this site is seeing the highs, lows, and expansive mediocrity of someone else's life. This is especially well punctuated by the fact that starting on May 2, 1997 he begins his losing battle with cancer. Enroute to his death he ties up loose ends, including proposing to, and marrying his girlfriend which is expressed in the photo of the ring above and subsequent photos of the marriage.
The last photo shows his friend playing music for him in his hospital room before he dies the following day.
Now I don't expect to die anytime soon, but I think that having relevant photos of a large part of my life would be valuable to me and interesting to others. I'm not expecting it to be overly artistic, but only for it show what I've been up to.
When I started writing this post a few days ago I was going to take a photo each day and post them here. However, after thinking about it, I don't want to be spamming my blog with photos of what I had for dinner on a daily basis.
by static416
Instead I'm going to still try to take some photos everyday, and then on Sunday's I'll post a selection of them with a few words about the context and maybe what I did that week. Luckily my life is not very interesting so the posts will be brief.
For a quick taste of what you've got coming to you, here's a photo I took of the cold medicine section of the pharmacy I was in while I waited for Steph to get her birth control (I hear that her and her boyfriend have pre-martial sexual intercourse).
by static416
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Jamie, Livingston, Photography, blog, day, eric, hacke, life, of, photo, the, week in Photography 
Reader Comments (5)
Well don't tell the internet that!
Oh geez.
Haha, oh no! Now the internets know!
PRE-MARTIAL?
is that like martial arts-related relations?
Don't be ridiculous. It's pre-martial arts-related relations. It's like stretching before karate. Only sex.
Pictures of the week is definitely better than picture of the day.
Keep it up, Ericface!