Picture a day for 8 years of aging - living life faster

[Tuolumne]

Artist Jonathan Keller has taken a picture of himself in the same position every day for 8 years and plays it back at warp speed. The result is a time lapse photo of a young man in his 20s turning into a 30-something. He plans to continue every day of his life until the last. This is quite a project. I was going to take a picture a day of my daughter, starting 22 years ago, but not in the same position. Just a pic a day. I accidentally exposed the first roll of film by opening the camera back before rewinding. I took this as a sign from Above that such project was not a good idea and ceased. However I still have many photos of my daughter growing up. Just not a pic a day.

The article and video are here in the NY times:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/eight-years-of-aging-on-video/

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[Spider67]

Thanks for posting!

 

[goldfinga888]

Hi Tuolumne, I would like to say thanks too for the post. Maybe it's not original, but nontheless, a very commendable piece of work. The dedication and discipline is definitely admirable.

 

[charjohncarter]

Pitxu, you have thought of that.

 

[chikne]

Good breakbeats!!

 

[sepiareverb]

Fantastic. Thanks.

 

[M. Valdemar]

What he needs to do is to arrange for post-mortem photography so that he can still get photos taken, say, up to 10 years after his demise.

It would be interesting to watch him decomposing.

 

[Matthew Allen]

There are a number of these by different people on Youtube if I recall. Very cool idea but it takes dedication.

Matthew

 

[sooner]

Indeed, I thought about doing something like this for my kids, but I barely have the discipline and control to get mountains of laundry done and meals cooked, let alone a photo a day. As it is, I now have to bribe my kids just to get them to stand still while I take a picture every few days. Cool project, thanks for posting.

 

[Matthew Allen]

What he needs to do is to arrange for post-mortem photography so that he can still get photos taken, say, up to 10 years after his demise.

It would be interesting to watch him decomposing.

A bit sick, but I have to admit that would be fascinating. They often have CGI versions of this on shows like CSI and Bones but the real thing would be pretty astonishing.

Matthew

 

[Matthew Allen]

I've seen real ones done on small mamals being eaten by maggots. Fascinating.

Never thought to check before, but such things can be seen on Youtube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R1CD6gNmhr0

Aren't the internets wonderful?

Matthew

 

[erikhaugsby]

Another guy named Noah did a similar project, though his time-lapse sequence only covers 7 years (2000-2006). The music for his video is spellbinding.

http://vimeo.com/99392

 

[hiorgos]

This is the music of the video http://www.myspace.com/carlycomando

There was a simpsons version of that noah's video this season!

 

[Matthew Allen]

Another guy named Noah did a similar project, though his time-lapse sequence only covers 7 years (2000-2006). The music for his video is spellbinding.

http://vimeo.com/99392

Thanks for that, I love the music. It reminds me of something by Philip Glass.

Matthew