This is what happens to kids whose parents have owned digital cameras since Day One, and that would be just about everyone under the age of 12 in these United States and every other industrialized country:
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We take a photo every day (at least we tried to!) since birth until the present. Stop motion human growth!Yep, that would be Natalie: zero to ten years in under two minutes.
In other things digital... the Nativity, reimagined for Our New Digital Age.
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The kid photo series is cute.
ReplyDeleteI saw something last year that was done very well. It was a series of photos of a nude woman standing during her pregnancy stages. I don't mean erotic nude, as she had an arm and a hand strategically placed. There she was in all her glory against a black background.
I remember it being about a dozen pictures or so, with the last picture of her holding her baby.
So after seeing this, I was in the coffee bar at work and my co-worker was talking about his pregnant wife. I asked him if they were taking pictures of her nude. This generated a few scowls and a rebuke from the others.
Obviously I had crossed the line of sharing what I considered true art with the unwashed masses.
It's the unwashed masses who will be on your jury...
Another one, was a father and his daughter, who took a picture every year in the same place with their swimming trunks. Watching them age was amazing. The final picture was just the middle-aged woman. The father obviously passed away.
You say: "why didn't I think of that!"
The kid pictures were fun. I wonder how this will change the hall walls in homes around the country.
ReplyDeleteBoth pieces are extremely clever. In the early years, it looks like the kid is eating her binkies.
ReplyDeleteBoth clips were fascinating. Where do you find all this good stuff?
ReplyDeleteThis generated a few scowls and a rebuke from the others.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like ya didn't prep the field, Anon. Something like... "I saw the coolest set of photos of a pregnancy recently..." OTOH, the father-daughter photo set is both cool and poignant.
Lou: I would imagine photos in the hall will be changed out much more often.
Jim: "eating her binkies..." It DOES!
Dan: Finding this stuff is a result of waaay too many wasted hours on the 'net. Unfortunately.
I love them both!
ReplyDeleteRe: Anon's comments, I recently read somewhere about how a young mother was beginning a Christmas Newsletter tradition because her mother, who had just passed away, had done one every year, put all of them together in book form, and gave the book to the daughter the Christmas before the mother passed. The daughter observed that it was such a treat to read about her mother's take on life as a younger woman. Talk about a "don't you wish you'd thought of it" moment!
Talk about a "don't you wish you'd thought of it" moment!
ReplyDeleteYou said it! My Mom did the same thing for years and years; I dearly wish I had those letters.
Used to think the Christmas letters were annoying, but, yeah, don't you wish you had them now? Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteLove Christmas video. The one of the little girl -- I just think of someone say, wow, they grow up so fast, and mom or dad saying, ya think? Look at this!! It's cute.
I've been trying to remember ever since Moogie mentioned the letters whether I (or more correctly: one of the Mrs. Penningtons) ever did that. I don't think we did. I KNOW my Mom did, tho.
ReplyDeleteI've only done two -- the year we headed to New Orleans, and the year of Katrina. I ran across them the other day and wished I'd done more.
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