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Recently I unveiled a new website: Just Barely There. This is a blog consisting of free (libre), Creative-Commons-licensed stock abstract images. The plan is to release them at the rate of two per week. Please check it out!

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There’s lately been a gamut of stop-frame videos of people who’ve taken photos of themselves every day for years. It’s an intriguing idea for a project, but I’m not sure I could force myself to do it for a long enough time period.

• madandcrazychild’s effort is short, but she’s nice to look at so that’s ok
• Sven and Tobias‘ efforts are impressive for what they are (taking a photo every day for 3 years), but ultimately they’re boring compared to others
• Phil is much more interesting, with beard and hair changing gradually, and then getting a bit more creative toward the end
• Like Tobias and Sven, Marqs video is a great achievement, but very repetitive. Also a bit lo-fi
• Lee has a different take, not only in that he doesn’t attempt to be in the same position with the same expression every frame. There is some debate about the authenticity of this
• Ben, staged but humourous. Apparently this was used as a Mountain Dew ad in the US
• ahreelee’s take is haunting, because she doesn’t change much over the course of three years, and even though she tries not to, just occasionally you get a glipse of a smile
• elko9, only 269 images, but more interesting as she makes a real effort to make each frame unique - there is no sense of continuity
• Orange is a piss take, filed under Comedy, but not actually that funny

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I submitted a new piece to DeviantArt yesterday - haven’t done that in ages. It used to be that I would submit all manner of stuff (especially to my old account), but I think now I’ll just use it for more “arty” type things.

New “Peterborough” page coming soon for more traditional photography. This is partly an extension of the plans I had for Manchester (now somewhat defunct - at least until September 2007), but also inspired by a project by Kathleen Connally.

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