Before… and after
April 18th, 02008 by Stuart CandyOnline playpen colorwars is currently running a photo competition called YoungMeNowMe, which involves submitting a shot of yourself as a youngster, together with the closest possible recreation of the same setup and pose, today.
Blogger and colorwars maestro Ze Frank posts an example: “The image to the left is me at my first showing of my art at my mom’s restaurant. The image to the right is me standing in front of two images that were created using the scribbler robot at TED 2005.”
You can look through the gallery here (competition ends 20 April).
To me there’s something quite fascinating about seeing how much people change — and don’t — with the passage of time — also seen more gradually in videos like this.
This is no less true of places, maps, and buildings…
(Thanks, Jake!)
April 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
This comment is only tangentially related to this post, but the pictures (and the link to Johnathan Keats Long Photo off the Inspiration page) got me thinking that the Long Now foundation probably has accumulated a large knowledge base about what works,and what doesn’t, over long time spans. For instance, if someone wanted to build a time-lapse camera that would take one picture a day for 40 years, or one picture a year for the next ten thousand years, what is the state of the art in image storage techniques? I’m guessing Long Now probably has some of that information, or at least good pointers to get started. Is that information publicly available somewhere?