{"id":401,"date":"2008-05-22T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=401"},"modified":"2008-05-22T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:50:47","slug":"snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2008\/05\/22\/snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this story on Mental Floss<\/a> about a man who took a Polaroid snapshot every day from 1979 to 1997. And I was in awe. It really is a wonderful way to tell the story of someone’s life. I tried doing it for a year<\/a> (from 2005 to 2006, but I fell short by a few months) and found it difficult to find interesting things to take pictures of every day, considering that my daily life is pretty much routine. I thought it would be boring to look at yet another picture of my cat, or some video I bought.<\/p>\n

But maybe I was wrong-headed about it. Looking at it from a different perspective, say, after I’m dead, even the boring pictures might have some kind of meaning for my family and friends. Something my daughter could have. Well I don’t want to go all morbid here, but maybe it would be worth reviving the pic-a-day thing. Yeah. I’m sitting here pondering this and the more I ponder, the better the idea sounds. Which is what I thought the first time I did this project, but I’m going to quit caring whether people think the pics are dull.<\/p>\n

Plus, thanks to a fabulous birthday pressie gift card (Thanks dad!) I was able to get a very nice new digital camera that I have been wanting for a very long time now. So I think it’s fate that I found that article the morning after I bought my new camera.<\/p>\n

So expect a new section of ukmelia soon for the photos. And if some of them are boring, well, that’s life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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