Last October, I wrote about an ongoing project (directly stolen from inspired by things like this and this) wherein I took a photo of myself every day and made a video of the stills. Easy, yeah? It should be. In practice, it’s full of starts and stops and extended periods where I’m not around my laptop (my camera). For instance, I was hiking in New Zealand for two weeks, in the (mostly) technology-free wilderness last December.

I even started this same project (without much success) in October 2006, the year the videos above became über-popular. Here’s the very first image from that (featured prominently in my earlier post):

That’s actually what I looked like freshman year of college! Unbelievable. Anyway, last July I started the project again, with somewhat more success, and kept a pretty good rate of 90% going for a while (that is, I took a photo of myself 9 out of every 10 days). As of July 28, however, it’s decreased to about 65%. Still over half, right? So yesterday was my one-year anniversary for taking pictures of myself. Here’s what I looked like then (yesterday):

Man, am I into myself. But I’m probably boring you. If you want to look at me some more, you can watch the titular video here. The first few seconds are a little messed up quality-wise, and there’s no music. I recommend opening an awesome song in another tab and listening to that while you watch the video. Also, maybe I didn’t link to that video enough. Here it is again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ53lcCZJrY

Honestly, I’m having trouble justifying why I do this. Leave me a comment regarding that. Thanks.

The most disappointing thing about Austria (and possibly all of Europe) is, hands down, the fact that whipped cream is not sweet like in America. I’m having a hot chocolate right now and while the drink is delicious, I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I had the whipped cream. But it has overall been a good trip so far…

Anyway, a lot has happened since I wrote a week-ish ago. My Dad and I visited Chicago and took a few obligatory Bean pictures, and went into the Art Institute. I flew to Vienna via Frankfurt. Since then? It’s been art museum after art museum after hot chocolate. Vienna is all about historic elements in their buildings. I breathe an audible sigh of relief upon entering a building designed after World War II. This picture is of an entrance to a parking garage, to give you a sense of the decoration everywhere.

In the room that I’m staying in, there is this drawing of a cat:The Parliament building in Vienna is undergoing renovations, and for some reason there’s a decent-sized house perched on top of it. It’s either for the workers, or it’s an artistic intervention:

More to come soon, I promise!

A little over two years ago, after seeing time-lapse videos of people who took photos of themselves every day for several years (watch this and this), I decided that that would be a fun thing to do. About a month and a half later, I fell out of the habit and stopped. Here is very first picture I took about two years ago to start it up:

The first one. My hair's much shorter now.

Now, I’ve been doing it with pretty good regularity (90% of the days?) since the end of July of this year. That’s over 70 photos, which I organized into a 7-second movie (10 photos/second). You can watch it here.

I haven’t added any music but I’m very open to suggestion. Of course, it’s pretty short, so it may be a few years until I’m able to add a full song. Expect an update to this every couple of months!