As I've previously outlined, while I enjoy sharing a few photos of myself between friends and family, never before have I been one to indulge in the whole self-portrait everyday "thing" on the web. That is until I got my MacBook Pro, where just opening up my lappy and clicking on the Photo Booth icon (which, strangely enough looks a lot like to me like the red room from Twin Peaks) became the equivalent of staring at the bathroom mirror and making faces at myself.
After a full year of funny faces, I collected all of the old photos I had taken in 2008 and stitched them together into a giant 90 photo summary of my year. It turned out rather swell, so I've decided to keep it up for 2009 only this time with a twist (a twist!). I take photos whenever I feel like it (not everyday), and if I've tweeted that day I'll overlay a tweet on top of the photo. Sometimes the c-c-c-combo of the tweet and the photo are conveniently masterful, other times not so much, but it's a fun project regardless.
This month is shown above, but I also have January, February, and March covered in the Year of the Ox (my year!). A few of my friends have followed my footsteps, and I encourage anyone else to as well! Either way, Happy May, and in the spirit of Friday I am totally entitled to recommend you listen to Hall & Oates' "I can't go for that" for your evening's dance-spiration:
Do you really have to be so hot? ;)
Posted by: Sim | May 02, 2009 at 07:52 AM
That's a great series of photographs :D
Posted by: www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm2KmgsFOIRCZte2xC4mhF9WzYvXYYYrQI | May 03, 2009 at 01:46 AM
Hall & Oates -- nice choice. Brings back some memories. I remember my dad had one of their LPs.
Posted by: rogera.blogspot.com | May 03, 2009 at 07:06 PM
2 hip 2 cute
Posted by: David | May 04, 2009 at 09:08 AM
This is such a cool idea. I’m kinda scarry looking so I don’t think it would work out well for me.
Posted by: Marcus B | May 04, 2009 at 06:51 PM
Nice photoset, but word to the wise, the larger versions of these photos are apparently set to private. Not sure if that was intentional, just pointing it out either way.
Posted by: Tarmanydyn | May 05, 2009 at 09:14 AM
Yes, I set them on private :) While I know that sort of defeats the purpose of the project for the majority of people, I'm still not comfortable exposing gigantic photos of my face across the Internet for all to see :)
But, maybe someday!
Posted by: .tiff | May 05, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Haha, fair enough. Though there's also the small text that isn't quite legible at the current resolution, I suppose they'll have to remain a mystery.
In any case I sent a friend request over Flickr
(Theodropham), feel free to decline, lol.
Posted by: Tarmanydyn | May 05, 2009 at 03:41 PM
Hypothetically one could go to my public twitter and match the photos with my timeline, but yeah. Until there's a .tiff's twitter-portrait calendar for 2009 or someone wants to hang these babies up in a gallery, the tiny text will remain a mystery!
Posted by: .tiff | May 05, 2009 at 04:09 PM
Haha, I think that's a bit... much. Though the idea of a .tiff calendar isn't half bad, I'd say that given your appearances on CO-OP, you have a respectable amount of sweaty nerds fawning over you, could be a profitable venture, eh?
Well, not really... but the photoset more or less already is a calendar, though not a functional one mind you, unless you can take pictures of yourself in the future... Should you come across time-traveling technology, a functional .tiff calendar should definitely be a priority.
Posted by: Tarmanydyn | May 05, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Yes, all jokes. The very idea of making profit from my face sounds pretty silly to me.
Posted by: .tiff | May 05, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Haha, I think you're being too modest.
Posted by: Tarmanydyn | May 05, 2009 at 09:31 PM
I think your pictures turned out great, I especially like day 10 and 12 of May.
Posted by: Michael | December 16, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Sorry I meant April although May was great too.
Posted by: Michael | December 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM