Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Strangers
Accursed Blogger. I lost my last post because it said I had timed out, and my browser didn't cache the text from the post.
That's bound to happen, I suppose.
Anyhow, tonight I was on about the Stranger a Day project, which I discovered through Idle Type. This fellow, Roark Johnson, takes a picture of a new and complete stranger every day. Then he must run off and develop all the photos so he can post them once a week. He's been doing this since the first of the year, and there are pictures clear back to then. He must travel quite a bit, too, as he finds his subjects all over, from Kentucky to Chicago.
Many of the pictures are simply marvelous, really. It's one of those elegant and simply beautiful ideas that makes one wonder why more people hadn't thought of something like that before, or why there aren't a dozen "Stranger of the Day" websites with their own little category on Yahoo! and everything.
Then again, not all of us are using a Deardorff 8x10 camera, as Roark does. Not that equipment makes the (wo)man, or anything.
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