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Thursday, 14 August 2008

Stills life


This picture is from a web site called http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com

Hugh starting taking a polaroid everyday in 1979 recording his life, his pre Flickr book if you like.

The picture here is a show he did in 1995 using the pics so far.

He continued his journal for 20 years until he sadly died from a brain tumor aged 41 in 1997.

Perhaps it's the fact that he died so young that his work has gained attention capturing a life snatched away...

On a similar path, there is this site of Mark Craig, who, in 1985 started recording and keeping every voice message on his answer machine. It makes for an intriguing and honest insight into someone who wanted to share the otherwise mundane details of their life in an interesting way.

http://www.talktome.org.uk/

Perhaps the most interesting thing to consider is what the future holds. Talk of human memory downloads... maybe there will be a time where nothing will be lost? Until the transworld Wi Fi server goes down of course - Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?!

We are after all only human.

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