#eerie

hipstre@diasp.org

Coincidence
There is a #project I have always wanted to formalize. I'd like to scan in every #photo I've ever taken and attach a date to it, if possible. Then on every #anniversary of every photo, try to go back to the same places and recreate the photo. Not every circumstance. For instance, if there are people in the original photo, I don't have to get the people and haul them out to the original place and make them wear the same clothes. I just want to take another picture of the same place, that's all.

To this strange end, I have periodically attempted to get all my data in one place, and in one format. I want a folder with every photo ever in it. In file structure I guess it should look like: photos/2008/12/07/001.jpg, etc… Something like that. I have it, more or less, though scattered over several drives. And I managed to make a #list today. It's an #index. It's simple. It goes:

01 01 2008
01 01 2011
01 01 2012
01 01 2013
01 01 2014
01 01 2017
01 01 2020
01 01 2021

01 02 2008
01 02 2011

And so on. This lets me know if I should even bother looking on any given day for photos to recreate. So, today, i do have some photos I can recreate. I found one for certain. But the others were mysterious. I tried to retrace my steps by looking in old electronic journal entries. There was no helpful information. But the old electronic journal entry had a cryptic "slug":

#meta 2016/08/15 M 0716 Photo list from XXXXX, page 5.

And when I looked at the old paper journal (XXXXX) on page 5, I had, in fact, listed a series of descriptions and dates of photos I'd taken in 1998. I had the same idea on August 15th in 1998. And then on August 15th in 2016. And now on August 15tth in 2021 I was again reviving the same idea. Keep track of when and where I take photos so that I might recreate them in the future.

This sort of thing happens to me frequently. I apparently have some idea "out of the blue." I know that I have had similar ideas in the past, and when I go rummaging through my archives, such as they are, I find a trail revealing that not only was I thinking the same thing in the past. I was thinking the same thing on the same day. #Coincidence? Yes. But coincidences are so #eerie.

dkkhorsheed@diasp.org

#Key #Note #Structure #Locks #Burning #Man #Coolest #Art #Installations #Ever #Our #World

Key Note by Michael Christian, 2009

Photo by:William Neuheisel

I love this one!

"Michael Christian makes the kind of #art that resonates with everyone. #Key #Note is my favorite #large #structure of the decade. It's made entirely from #locks -- all kinds of locks, from #bike locks to #padlocks. I can only image seeing this #eerie #man come into sight through the #dust #storms, #dragging the #large #key behind him. Michael states that the man is in search of another key, the right key, a #paradox of #life as we know it."__ http://matadornetwork.com/nights/12-coolest-art-installations-in-the-history-of-burning-man/?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=promo