Tag: 365 day challenge

10.01.14 Me. Los Angeles.

One of the interesting consequences of looking at a year of your life photographically is that you realize how much you change, and yet, how routine life can be. You lose focus on the idea that the photos you posted earlier in the year came from the same person posting now; the feel almost foreign like part of a group collaboration. Its a fascinating visual chronology of how your images and perspectives change. In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” and I would say, for me, there has been no better way to do that then by forcing myself to seek out image, moments, in my every day life for this project; but beyond that, collecting those moments, and more importantly how I captured those moments, tell a story. All in all rounding the home stretch I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride.

09.25.14 Pigeon Point Lighthouse.

“Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 2,000 pounds. It sits in a lantern room that had been constructed at the Lighthouse Service’s general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a 24 inch Aero Beacon.” – CA State Parks

09.22.14 Julie. Costanoa.

Its all too easy now a days to keep going, keep scrolling, and forget to just stop and look at whats in front of you. We are guilty of that, and me especially working at a computer all day its easy to forget to just stop and look around. I know its cliche, and I know everyone says it; but fuck its true.

There is a world of magic brought to your finger tips every second with phones these days, but make sure to come up for air every now and then to make sure the only life you’re living isn’t the one made up of 1s and 0s and ruled by tapping thumbs.

Take your time. Turn off your phone a couple hours a day. Spend more time those people around you and I SWEAR it’ll be worth it.