A game is going around Facebook:
post side-by-side pictures of yourself from 2009 and 2019.
Some call this the Ten Year Challenge, some, the How-Hard-Did-Age-Hit-You? Challenge.
I think this is FB at its worst, as it invites people to silently crow about how they still look the same or (more commonly?) to publicly flagellate themselves for having gained weight or whatever.
I'm not sure why people willingly do this to themselves. Any attention is better than none?
I do love time lapse photography, however, and Before & After shots, and scavenger hunts, and show and tell, so I looked at my January posts ten years ago, here on my blog for a Compare & Contrast.
Among other things, almost exactly ten years ago I'd made a last-minute motivational macro of Captain Kirk for my online 2009 Star Trek calendar:
(The quote is from a version of the King Lear story--"I love you as fresh meat loves salt".
The screencap is from the 1966 episode "Charlie X" (the one with Robert Walker Jr.), from the amazing TrekCore.com archive.
Fans (some) call the light across Shatner's eyes Kirk Light.)
I was blogging a lot (a lot!) about Star Trek: The Original Series in 2009. I hardly do anymore, but as it happens, yesterday I'd bought 57 Star Trek VHS tapes (for $25) at a thrift store (not mine) with the intention of cutting up the covers, with their soft printed photos, to collage the old fashioned way, with scissors and glue.
After years of smooth digital images, I extra-appreciate the nicks and ridges of handmade collage.
I made my first one this afternoon:
(William Shatner (Capt. Kirk) is Canadian, you know.
Pop Quiz: Can anyone name the ST episode?)
I'd saved the cookbook because the fish dishes on the cover, before I cut them out, looked like Wayne Theidbaud's paintings of cake.
I did post these Kirks side-by-side on FB: "From Digital Meat to Paper Fish".
I'm happy that I am, in this way Kirky way anyway, the same as I was ten years ago.
post side-by-side pictures of yourself from 2009 and 2019.
Some call this the Ten Year Challenge, some, the How-Hard-Did-Age-Hit-You? Challenge.
I think this is FB at its worst, as it invites people to silently crow about how they still look the same or (more commonly?) to publicly flagellate themselves for having gained weight or whatever.
I'm not sure why people willingly do this to themselves. Any attention is better than none?
I do love time lapse photography, however, and Before & After shots, and scavenger hunts, and show and tell, so I looked at my January posts ten years ago, here on my blog for a Compare & Contrast.
Among other things, almost exactly ten years ago I'd made a last-minute motivational macro of Captain Kirk for my online 2009 Star Trek calendar:
(The quote is from a version of the King Lear story--"I love you as fresh meat loves salt".
The screencap is from the 1966 episode "Charlie X" (the one with Robert Walker Jr.), from the amazing TrekCore.com archive.
Fans (some) call the light across Shatner's eyes Kirk Light.)
I was blogging a lot (a lot!) about Star Trek: The Original Series in 2009. I hardly do anymore, but as it happens, yesterday I'd bought 57 Star Trek VHS tapes (for $25) at a thrift store (not mine) with the intention of cutting up the covers, with their soft printed photos, to collage the old fashioned way, with scissors and glue.
After years of smooth digital images, I extra-appreciate the nicks and ridges of handmade collage.
I made my first one this afternoon:
Pop Quiz: Can anyone name the ST episode?)
I'd saved the cookbook because the fish dishes on the cover, before I cut them out, looked like Wayne Theidbaud's paintings of cake.
I did post these Kirks side-by-side on FB: "From Digital Meat to Paper Fish".
I'm happy that I am, in this way Kirky way anyway, the same as I was ten years ago.