I'm surprised no one has linked to this: http://noahkalina.com/36/44#1 He's been taking pictures every day since 2000.
Or this chap, who took a polaroid a day until the day he died: http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/1979.htm#1979/1
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#32The article doesn't say a lot about the app. But, for people with a "creativity through technology" mind, the current tech climate is great for these sorts of ideas. Documenting is something we can do more of. It's valuable. It can be fun. Maybe all we need is better tools. How about better ways of documenting your children growing up. Documenting yourself getting old. If we want to get really into it, maybe there ar…
My intention was to make a similar app as a side project but he's way ahead of me. It was still very inspiring though. This whole idea of using smartphones as a documentary and creative tool and improving people's lives through unlocking their creative side seems very attractive to me.
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#33Reminds me of another cool "picture every day" project -- this guy took a photo of himself once a day for 6 years with the lens cap on -- http://www.mrwillvincent.co.uk/Two-Thousand-One-Hundred-and-...
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#34I recall a Nova or something on PBS several years ago where an MIT student had built a contraption that did essentially that. The thing that struck him when analyzing the data was how much every day was more or less exactly like the other. He wasn't particularly philosophical about this fact, but I remember thinking this could be very depressing to some people - and jostle others into doing more with their lives. Sti…
Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
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#35I've always been inspired by the story of Jamie Livingston, who took a Polaroid everyday from 1979-1997. The photos follow his life as a circus performer and photographer/videographer in NYC. He was killed by a brain tumor, and his photos follow him up until his last day in the hospital (his friends took the photos for him). Incredibly moving to see his life unfold in thousands of "in-between" moments.
http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/1979.htm#1979/1
More on Jamie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really cool idea. The descriptions in iTunes are all in Dutch, though… edit: actually, even the app itself is mostly in Dutch. :)
Oh well, you might learn a new language as well ;)
Heh, actually as a speaker of Norwegian, English and German, (written) Dutch is surprisingly easy to understand. I kept the app, at least for now. :-)
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#37The article doesn't say a lot about the app. But, for people with a "creativity through technology" mind, the current tech climate is great for these sorts of ideas. Documenting is something we can do more of. It's valuable. It can be fun. Maybe all we need is better tools. How about better ways of documenting your children growing up. Documenting yourself getting old. If we want to get really into it, maybe there ar…
My intention was to make a similar app as a side project but he's way ahead of me. It was still very inspiring though. This whole idea of using smartphones as a documentary and creative tool and improving people's lives through unlocking their creative side seems very attractive to me.
Don't give up. I reckon that for someone with a mind that works that way, this is a great space to work at. Its also something "we" need to experiment at to get right.
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#38This brings to mind Lifelapse (http://www.lifelapse.com/) -- you hang your smartphone around your neck and let it take snapshots of your day. I always thought it was a fun idea but never got to try it. Probably a great thing while traveling.
I used to do this with my desktop using TimeSnapper (http://www.timesnapper.com/), it does provide an interesting view on where your time goes throughout the day.
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#39> Everyone will probably have a different experience with their videos, he says, but he says self-reflection is never a bad thing. People's infinite capacity to forget things is both a blessing and a curse. Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -From the opening paragraph of ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, H. P. Lovecraft
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#40This is an interesting idea, but how did he decide which one from 86,400 sec in a day that's worth to keep?