Probably one of the most interesting things about having an iPhone is the ease with which I can take a picture and send it all around the internet, beaming it into a million households and workplaces – well, maybe a million is a bit of an overstatement.
Something fascinating for me, when it comes to journalism, is the idea that reporting deals with the minutiae of life and the everyday feelings of a person. In democratic society, we can be affected by the smallest stimuli and we all have some kind of relation on the feelings of everyone else.
It’s a very mundane idea that the things which we do are of the utmost importance.
Nietzsche goes as far to say as such an attitude is in itself boring.
I spent Saturday March 13th taking a picture every half an hour to let the world know what I was up to. It’s a kind of anti-microblogging – that is if a picture tells a thousand words, then 23 pictures are half of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Definitely not a tweet.
Some of the feedback I had was interesting. As I posted each picture to Facebook, it became increasingly apparent that people started to check their own facebooks every half an hour to see what ‘Marc had been up to.’ Lots of comments came in and a lot of interesting ideas were shared.
One spectator remarked, “Quite innovative, this is true. But it’s only entertaining to the extent your life is good for picture taking. My day would be picture after picture of a computer screen.”
But this is exactly the attitude I wanted to challenge with this project – our days are as interesting as we allow them to be and the very fact that I spent my whole morning in the office at work and the whole evening in a church just goes to show that life is interesting despite our activity or lack thereof.
Hope you enjoy my day! If you try this yourselves, please, send me a link as I’m very much interested in little things.
