November, Project 365 Retrospective
Friday, November 30, 2007
This has been a hard, hard month for Project 365. Like many other people who are a part of this year-long project, I'm tired of trying to be creative. Nothing around me seemed particularly interesting. So this month, I turned inward and was creative with myself. What's unusual about this month are the seven self-portraits I took. While there is nothing remarkable about the photos, it is remarkable that I took them and posted them online. The vulnerability and exposure that came with those actions has been very uncomfortable, but in an odd way, very freeing. I've felt more connected to this community of Project 365ers, but also to my academic work. (Yes, an odd connection.) As Jayfish noted throughout this month about the self-portraits, I'm hiding behind something in each of them: my hair, glasses, a scarf, photoshop . . . The act of putting myself "out there" in all my reality was tough . . . I wonder how much of myself I hide (or manufacture) in my writing. More than I thought I was, surely. So the act of producing self-portraits opened me to the possibility of writing more authentically.
I took a lot of "on the sly" portraits at Starbucks this month as I spent quite a bit of time there reading and writing. I like these photos and how they demonstrate Starbucks' place in the community as a "literacy sponsor."
Aside from the self portraits and Starbucks, the photo I like the most this month is the one of the bird flying overhead. That was a very tough shot, and I took dozens and dozens trying to get it come out right. The photo itself is presented without post-processing or cropping. It is as it was.
OK, one month left. I'm striving in this last month to be a little more creative and bold with my photographs, to take some creative risks. We'll see where it goes. For your Project 365ers, anyone thinking about continuing through 2008?
331/365: 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Literacyless
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
330/365: Cujo Cat
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
328/365: What I might look like with light eyes . . .
Sunday, November 25, 2007
327/365: Believe
Saturday, November 24, 2007
326/365: Bird, in Flight
Friday, November 23, 2007
325/365: Thanksgiving Day Fire
Thursday, November 22, 2007
324/365: Starbucks as Literacy Sponsor
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
323/365: After the day's been washed away
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
322/365: Starbucks as Literacy Sponsor
Monday, November 19, 2007
321/365: Self Portrait #4
Sunday, November 18, 2007
320/365: Self Portrait #3
Saturday, November 17, 2007
319/365: Self in Rearview Mirror
Friday, November 16, 2007
318/365: Literacy, with Attitude
Thursday, November 15, 2007
317/365: Play
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
316/365: Sunset from Office Window
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
315/365: Falling
Monday, November 12, 2007
314/365: Reading
Sunday, November 11, 2007
313/365: Orange Brush
Saturday, November 10, 2007
312/365: That caveman is everywhere....
Friday, November 9, 2007
From my office window on Friday.
311/365: Forgotten
Thursday, November 8, 2007
310/365: I Notice the Dirty Window
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
(Another Barthian reference . . . but I do notice that I don't walk enough.)
309/365: Beam, another perspective
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
308/365: Photoethnograhy
Monday, November 5, 2007
307/365: The Breakup
Sunday, November 4, 2007
306/365: Back and Back
Saturday, November 3, 2007
305/365: Sometimes I'm on the inside . . .
Friday, November 2, 2007
304/365: Fragmented Elements
Thursday, November 1, 2007
