downloaded a new camera app for my iPhone. this is entertainment.
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
07 September 2010
16 June 2010
picture blog.
a few events recently transpired that have inspired me to try a photo blog:
1. a blog reader of mine mentioned wanting to start a "photo a day" blog after being somewhat interested in my daily journal-of-sorts throughout may.
2. a facebook friend started uploading photos to http://www.365project.org/ which encourages users to post a picture a day on their public site.
3. my cousins use hipstamatic for iphone which creates analog-ish looking photos using different lenses, flashes, and film.
4. i'm-- once again-- bored.
i really enjoyed unloading my thoughts each day last month; i had both purpose and audience and plenty of writing material, and i even downloaded an iphone app so i could post from home on days that i didn't feel like going to the public library (or if time restraints got in the way with posting). i don't care to open yet another social technology page (like tumblr or 365project), and i can upload photos (maybe some taken with the hipstamatic app? i haven't taken the plunge into buying it yet...) right from my phone.
so why not?
92 days of summer. in photos.
coming soon.
1. a blog reader of mine mentioned wanting to start a "photo a day" blog after being somewhat interested in my daily journal-of-sorts throughout may.
2. a facebook friend started uploading photos to http://www.365project.org/ which encourages users to post a picture a day on their public site.
3. my cousins use hipstamatic for iphone which creates analog-ish looking photos using different lenses, flashes, and film.
4. i'm-- once again-- bored.
i really enjoyed unloading my thoughts each day last month; i had both purpose and audience and plenty of writing material, and i even downloaded an iphone app so i could post from home on days that i didn't feel like going to the public library (or if time restraints got in the way with posting). i don't care to open yet another social technology page (like tumblr or 365project), and i can upload photos (maybe some taken with the hipstamatic app? i haven't taken the plunge into buying it yet...) right from my phone.
so why not?
92 days of summer. in photos.
coming soon.
10 May 2010
may take my picture.
when i was in junior high and high school, one of my favorite days of the school year was in may: yearbook day. i'd prepare for this day-- i would buy a special yearbook-signing pen, i would usually pick out a wise quotation to write in people's yearbooks (i.e. "remember to see the flower in the weeds," "those who stand for nothing fall for anything," etc.), and i would practice my signature and determine which AIM screenname i wanted to share with others. i mostly looked forward to yearbook day because i loved seeing the past year captured in candid photos-- i liked learning about events i didn't go to and reading random interviews with people i admired-- and in the posed headshots where i could giggle over pictures of my crush or find a small bit of satisfaction that super-cute x looks terrible in her school photo.
mind you, this was waaaaay before facebook or myspace. i couldn't browse through profile pictures or mobile uplaods. there was only a yearbook photo, tiny and in black-and-white. i couldn't click on "albums" and see y's volleyball championship pictures and team photos. i couldn't write on someone's wall and leave a "hey! call me!" comment; i waited with giddy excitement to read what z wrote in my yearbook-- did he think i'm a "cool chick" and "super smart" and would we "hang out this summer"? i couldn't send xyz a friend request and hope that a tenuous connection would be established and maintained through face/space; i anxiously approached other kids and asked them to sign my yearbook and hoped their message to me would be just as nice as mine to them.
my friends and i would reserve pages so we could write heartfelt messages to each other. "SAVE FOR ANDREA" would be scrawled across the top of a page, and i'd ponder how i could possibly encapsulate the meaning of high school friendship on a glossy yearbook page... but i did. back then, my friends and i didn't spend hours texting back and forth; we would sum up our friendship and love for each other in lengthy yearbook signings. these messages are far more permanent and meaningful than the thousands of texts and dozens of one-line myspace comments.
i wonder if the current generation of high school students appreciates looking through their yearbooks as much as i did. i wonder if they will someday laugh at the hairstyles and clothing worn in their youth in photos that their entire class can peruse through at any moment. i wonder if the club pages, faculty photos, and indexes create a swarm of butterflies in their stomachs when someone hands them a hardbound book with the academic year printed on the front. i wonder if yearbooks will be phased out and replaced with social technology lifebooks. tonight, i'll look at my yearbooks with a little more appreciation and nostalgia.
mind you, this was waaaaay before facebook or myspace. i couldn't browse through profile pictures or mobile uplaods. there was only a yearbook photo, tiny and in black-and-white. i couldn't click on "albums" and see y's volleyball championship pictures and team photos. i couldn't write on someone's wall and leave a "hey! call me!" comment; i waited with giddy excitement to read what z wrote in my yearbook-- did he think i'm a "cool chick" and "super smart" and would we "hang out this summer"? i couldn't send xyz a friend request and hope that a tenuous connection would be established and maintained through face/space; i anxiously approached other kids and asked them to sign my yearbook and hoped their message to me would be just as nice as mine to them.
my friends and i would reserve pages so we could write heartfelt messages to each other. "SAVE FOR ANDREA" would be scrawled across the top of a page, and i'd ponder how i could possibly encapsulate the meaning of high school friendship on a glossy yearbook page... but i did. back then, my friends and i didn't spend hours texting back and forth; we would sum up our friendship and love for each other in lengthy yearbook signings. these messages are far more permanent and meaningful than the thousands of texts and dozens of one-line myspace comments.
i wonder if the current generation of high school students appreciates looking through their yearbooks as much as i did. i wonder if they will someday laugh at the hairstyles and clothing worn in their youth in photos that their entire class can peruse through at any moment. i wonder if the club pages, faculty photos, and indexes create a swarm of butterflies in their stomachs when someone hands them a hardbound book with the academic year printed on the front. i wonder if yearbooks will be phased out and replaced with social technology lifebooks. tonight, i'll look at my yearbooks with a little more appreciation and nostalgia.