This is the average of my face, the result of overlays from multiple Photo Booth self-portraits taken over about 2 and a half years. I wanted to make a visual average of self-portraits but I realized that out of 200 odd Photo Booth pictures in my MacBook, there aren’t very many proper ones, so this is just a half-assed version for kicks – but it does include some major changes like cutting my hair short, and an instance of um, heavy make-up.
‘Photo booth’ culture is pretty much a city-life staple, and in my opinion, these supposedly casual snaps say more about us than we think, and many times, they document a person’s changing psyche. Insidious things!
Moving on, this is a visual I used for a recent project:
It’s somewhat inspired by the idea of change, putting away past fragmented versions of oneself in resealable bags, perhaps tacked on a board somewhere, or chucked in a box, never to be looked at again, but still there just in case you ever want to — or in difficult times, easily disposed of.
In any case, I’m not trying to make everyone depressed. I actually wanted to share something refreshing – that of garbagemen in Germany converting dumpsters into pinhole cameras, known as The Trashcam Project.
These guys develop the photos themselves, in their own lab. They sound pretty damn awesome.
It made me think of people and how multi-faceted our personalities can be. Your daily responsibilities are not the only thing that defines you — art can surface anywhere, from anybody, and if it’s good enough, the world will notice, and with some luck, you can change perceptions!
I’ll end off with a great street art stopmotion video:
Things Change – Jo Peel 2012
Created in three weeks by Jo Peel,
Things Change is an optimistic look at the idea of human impermanence. The buildings and debris created by the human exploitation of our natural environment decay and give way to the force of nature once again.
Considering the sheer effort put in for something she cannot actually sell for money – maybe it’s a good guiding principle to have for the things you do in life: you either go all the way to get it right, otherwise, maybe there isn’t much use bothering at all.
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Unless you’re buying sweatpants or the like, you probably don’t need to bust a move, but it’s usually good to buy something comfortable and that allows for some varied movement – like bending over to pick something up, or jumping to reach a high shelf.
