Keep your hoes in check

All pictures taken with a 400 ISO disposable camera bought at the dollar store

Last semester in one of my photo classes my teacher had showed us some work by someone who had used a cheap disposable camera for most of his pictures. I can't remember who it was but I'm going to try and find it because the pictures were pretty great. The set that the class was shown were about consumerism and mass media from what I recall and the high saturation and grainy look of the pictures really worked with the content. After that I really wanted to get a disposable camera and see what would happen. My friend Tracy's birthday was coming up around that time so I thought that I might as well take some pictures there. The results were grainy, discoloured, and unfocused pictures and I love that. Definitely going to play around with disposable cameras again.

broken down forever now

2010 already?
Another year has gone by like nothing at all. I know its been over a week since new years day but things have been pretty hectic. 2009 was...pretty neutral for the most part. Nothing too impressive at all. The last three months of 09 were definitely some of the worse ones I've gone through so far, so I'm hoping that 2010 has something better in store. I'm back at school and recently started working full time so the odd time that I'm not at school or at work, I'm at home pretty exhausted and most likely asleep. I just started a black and white photo course so I'll (hopefully) be posting more pictures soon. I have so many ideas that I want to do but I'm so limited when it comes to time that things just don't work out the way I'd like them to right now.

I have been stumbling the internet a lot though and I came across Polaroid pictures by a man named Jamie Livingston. Basically he took one polaroid picture every single day for 17 years. They include pictures of his friends, his interests, his job, some self portraits, every day things, and his ongoing battle with cancer. The photos start in 1979, and go until the day he dies in 1997. Overall its a huge collection of amazing pictures; definitely worth checking out here: Photo of the day.

I really wanted to start a similar project this year called 365 and take one self portrait every day, but since I don't have a lot of free time that's been a little difficult. I still might try and do it though..