project 365

i know im a bit late. i'll play catch up. this is one of the things i'll do this year. wala lang pong kokontra. hahaah! wish me luck!******Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

People will often say that their whole lives flashed before their eyes after they experienced a traumatic event. Perhaps it’s a bit morbid, but we think that sounds pretty incredible.

When Taylor McKnight started taking a photo a day on January 1st, 2004, he never imagined the project would not only serve as a way to remember a year, but also help him understand what was important to him in his life.

Whether it was his relationships, his career, or his fashion sense, recording a photo a day for a whole year left him with a rich visual history of his life. And it made him a better photographer to boot!

Now that he’s in the middle of doing it for a second time, we asked Taylor to write about it for us. Read on for our tutorial on how and why to create your own daily photographic history.

WHY DO IT?

Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)

• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.

• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

TIPS ON HOW TO DO IT

Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:

1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
   Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.

2. Make Posting Easy
   You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.

3. Vary Your Themes
   Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.

4. Tell a Story
   Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.

5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
   This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

   There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

   Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

   N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!

6. Post early, post often
   Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

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ho! ho! ho! again

in this season of good cheer and waist widening (hahahah!), i would like to thank all the people who is and became part of my life somehow. *if i forgot to put your name im very sorry and its not intentional.

to m and my family, for still being the best reason for me to wake up everyday, to my sister from another mother, tabs, happy bday and for having patience with all my rants and coffee dates (lee, thank you for sharing her with me! :)), to all my new found friends at work (esp to mommy liz, ate badette & psst xz, ms lei, aileen & the boys) thank you for helping me not commit murder, to my friends that i miss the most -- ann, jan, jian, and lot, to my old friends -- elaine, rache and the other ics people, to not so old friends -- lerry, trisha, rache and kathy r it was nice seeing you again. to m's friends -- kitty and vince, jo and dodo. to my multiply friends and facebook friends. and to you, whom i forgot, i wish you all the best this christmas! cheers!

on being three

puro tres

nicked from lette:

THREE NAMES THAT FRIENDS CALL YOU:
1. fran
2. frankie
3. frannie

THREE MOST IMPORTANT DATES IN YOUR LIFE:
1. august 15
2. june 10
3. dec 27

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
1. start design
2. tweak cardiac arresting computer
3. eat meringue

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. the fray
2. snow patrol
3. sting -- maski di na sya police. hehehe

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
1. good food
2. coffee dates
3. saturdays coming early. ^_^

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Chasing Cars
2. Wait for you
3. How to save a life

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. legs -- should be long *so dapat tall*
2. moles -- think piolo pascual
3. wetpaks

THREE PERSONS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST
1. jian
2. some college friends
3. mom

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. harry potter chest set!!!
2. an obese bank account
3. new job

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. coffee dates
2. reading
3. being lazy

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
1. Aman Pulo
2. New York
3. Paris

THREE FAVORITE CARTOON(?)CHARACTERS:
1. The Endless
2. The Simpsons
3. Spiderman

THREE GIRL'S/BOY'S NAMES:
1. Jacob
2. Adam
3. Sebastian

THREE MALLS YOU USUALLY GO TO:
1. Glorietta
2. Greenbelt
3. Powerplant

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE FASTFOOD:
1. chicken
2. pizza
3. pasta

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. margarita
2. baileys
3. wendy's iced tea / raspberry iced tea

THREE THINGS FOUND IN YOUR BAG:
1. phone
2. kikay bag
3. wallet

THREE PERFUMES/COLOGNES:
1. elizabeth arden green tea
2. d&g light blue
3. gap dream

THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
1. blue
2. green
3. black

THREE EVENTS YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO:
1. anniversary
2. my bday
3. christmas