Kori

August 19, 2008


Wonderful.

I’m a dresser.

Kori

What piece of IKEA furniture are you?

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A life, one day at a time

May 30, 2008


A few days ago, I stumbled upon the most amazing site.

Jamie Livingston, an artist, filmmaker and New York City resident, took a Polaroid of his life. Every day. For 20 years.

They’ve been scanned and collected to form a massive art project, and now are located online, at Some Photos of That Day.

A Polaroid A DayAs individuals, we each live every minute of every day of our lives.

And as individuals, we’re the only people who can claim that. Our friends may spend a lot of time with us. Our parents and partners and children may be present nearly every moment of our lives. But no one is there, every minute – hell, even every day – to live your life with you. Just you. You’re the only one.

So to see a day by day account of someone’s life is fascinating. More than that, it’s amazing, to be given such access, to visualize even a small part of every day of a person’s life.

With Jamie Livingston, we see more than just friends and mundane life. We see everything. We see life as it was viewed by Jamie, his accomplishments, his failures. We see him battle cancer. And we see him die.

There is a great write-up on Mental Floss with a good sprinkling of the highlights of the set. Go there first.

Once you’ve taken a look at that, and once you have a good grip of the generalities, start near the end. On May 1st, 1997. His face, spotted with dots; some kind of medical marking for a test.

Then, continue through the end. Until the very end. October 25th, 1997.

I had just turned 18 the day before. My grandparents were celebrating their wedding anniversary. And Jamie Livingston, someone I have never met, someone whose life I only know through 10 years of Polaroids, died.

You can have your “picture a day for four years” memes and YouTube videos. You can have “365 different beards.”

This is more. This is a life. Captured for all of us. As art. And as a symbol of an artist who, through the wonders of captured images, still lives on today.

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22 five-year-olds

May 22, 2008


22

The only reason it’s that high is because I have no Moral Compass. Kids be damned - I’d be gouging out eyes and throwing 5-year-olds for any advantage.

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Crossword art

May 16, 2008


I just spent more time than necessary checking out NY Times Crossword Drawings – sketches by Emily Jo Cureton based on key words from the day’s New York Times Crossword Puzzle.

Crossword Art

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Macro classics

May 12, 2008


Lunch on Skyscraper - in LegoBeing on hand for an iconic photograph is part luck, part timing. It takes knowledge of possibilities – even if you’re setting the shot up yourself and not taking a live candid photo, you have to take every hidden flaw into account.

That being said, recreating these iconic photographs in an artistic way can be just as difficult.

Especially when your tools consist of the widely varied yet limiting Lego library.

Mike Stimpson, who goes by Balakov on Flickr, creates Lego reconstructions of famous images using nothing but Legos and a keen knowledge of macro photography and lighting.

And the results are pretty sweet. Check out the Moon landing. Or the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. Or the unknown rebel at Tiananmen Square.

He has 13 images in his Classics in Lego set so far, with new ones posted all the time.

You can even buy prints at redbubble.com.

It just goes to show you - some people have all the great ideas.

(Via: Animal New York)

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Explaining twitter

May 2, 2008


I know a lot of people who read this aren’t necessarily technological marvels. They don’t care about the inner workings of CSS or about Web 2.23 or what happened at the Yahoo! tent at SXSW. They just read because:
1. They know me
2. They are related to me
3. They don’t know any better

A majority of these people are often completely confused with the allure of twitter. “What’s the point?” they say. “Why would I ever mess with that?”

If that’s you, don’t feel bad. It’s pretty common. I was skeptical myself - as were many of the people I follow today.

Check out this video. It explains twitter as well as I’ve ever been able to. (I used to call it a mini-personal blog, but realized that even that doesn’t paint the entire picture because it doesn’t take the social and networking aspect into account.)

And now that you know, stop by and say hello.

(Via peroty’s tumblr.)

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Interview me, random traveller

April 23, 2008


A wandering group of bloggers from There’s a Blog in My Soup (one of those blogs that talks about how much better your blog could be if you created more links and twittered more and generally just became more like Rich Scoble and his camera avatar) is going from state to state, interviewing 50 bloggers in 50 days.

If you want to be one of the bloggers interviewed (and hell, I’m always looking for a way to talk about myself more [insert obligatory Ekonoline interview here]) you have to link back to the American Blogger Directory and, in turn, submit your link.

Which is what I’m doing. And if you’re interested, you should as well. But not in the South Dakota folder - that’s mine.

Sure, they’re just linkbaiting the world. But hey - I’ll bite. Chances are, I’ll just get thrown back for being under the limit anyway.

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