Over the weekend I compiled a total of 90 self-portraits taken over the course of 2008 with the Mac Photo Booth application. It would have been nice if there was a convenient way to export your photos this way (*ahem* I'm looking at you, savvy programming friend), but since that doesn't exist I had to assemble these babies in Photoshop. The photographs are ordered by date taken, some marking a particular event (such as Bay To Breakers or my little sister's graduation), while others are just me making faces at my computer. While I've taken a total of 212 Photo Booth photos over the course of the year, the selected 90 were my favorites, but weren't necessarily taken every single day.
As mentioned in the Flickr comments, next time I might associate each photo with a tweet from that day, or as David proposed, create some sort of personal blog/site using this mosaic layout. I have to admit I'm not really a photo-a-day kind of dame, but this is a really neat visual insight to the progression of a year. Plus, I can't believe my hair was that short! I miss it already...
Oh, and Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's the Year of the Ox, which is my year, so look out!
this is so cool :)
Posted by: Alex Deve | January 26, 2009 at 09:34 AM
[this is good] I like the one with the fists.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | January 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Thanks! I was really sick that day, and so I was pumping myself up. PS: Nice avatar!
Posted by: .tiff | January 26, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Heh, thanks. I know where you can get a mug with that mug.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | January 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Laffs! What clever wordplay. Yes I've seen the Sippey mug mug in your office before :D
Posted by: .tiff | January 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Each day photo linking to a blog post ... that sounds like, erm, Mixed Media Template in TypePad :)
Posted by: miyagawa | January 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Ha ha, I'm sure its feasible! I have to ask myself if I'm ready to create another blog though. I have too many already :P
Posted by: .tiff | January 26, 2009 at 01:02 PM
random things that jump out at me:
1) I like how there's like a bandana phase in the first fifth but then there's no more bandanas. Fun story: my roommate has a t-shirt with a screenprinted red bandana around the neck and since he got it he has been accosted TWICE, a haitian guy started pointing at it and screaming in french and at another point a young hispanic kid (like, 8) tried to rip it off of his neck.
2) aren't R6C5 and R6C10 from the same day/time? or am i on POWER PILLS aka narcotics :( :( :(
3) in yr old age are you getting less TUFF? there's a lot less I AM TUFF pics as it progresses!
4) sup w/ loom dawg?
5) wait a sec, back to point 2, ALSO R4C8??!!
6) i want R8C7 to be a little pin that says "no but seriously don't ask me about loom ok"
7) WHEN IS R9C9 FROM seriously it looks like it should be a still from a totally dope ghost movie. THAT SHADOW AAAAHHHH I LOVE THAT PICTURE.
Posted by: brilliam | February 04, 2009 at 10:39 AM
1) Yeah, the bandana round the neck trend is dying down. I still have a lot of 'chiefs and scarves that I like to wear when its cold though!
2) They are at the same time of day, but not on the same day. When I'd take a photo, it'd be either a. in the morning before I went to work (that's what those two are from) b. when I'm going crazy at work c. when I'm decompressing from work.
3) Heh! I'm getting more tuff as we speak! I think I was my toughest when my hair was short though. I'm already kind of starting to miss it (I'm growing my hair out)
4) Loom!!!
5) Same time of day, but in my bedroom instead of the living room.
6) Haha, yeah I should make that! I wore that button out for laffs one evening at a bar, and people asked me about Loom and it was really nerdy for me to reveal what it was about.
7) I was in NYC in my friend's apartment, and it was very dark!
Posted by: .tiff | February 04, 2009 at 10:53 AM
but why can't i see them big :(
Posted by: Leigh | February 07, 2009 at 10:23 PM
He he, here's a bigger size! <3
Posted by: .tiff | February 07, 2009 at 10:25 PM