Sunday, August 26, 2012

Park Slope- august family self portrait

Park Slope, Brooklyn (double click photo to see large)



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This project started in January 2011.

I take one portrait of the whole family, myself included, once a month.  Wherever we are, whatever we are doing, whatever we are wearing.

Sometimes it's planned. Mostly, it's not.

I started doing this mainly because I realised that I was never in any of the family photos. 

It was meant to last  for the duration of 2011, but we are  enjoying it so much that it has carried on into 2012. Don't know when or where it will end. 

Every family should do this. Won't you give it a try and share with us?

To see previous months click on the links below:


February 2012- lazy mornings in bed
January 2012- mimes

2011
December 2011- Occupy your life
November- BAM!

Saturday, August 25, 2012

shadows

self portrait. Alghero, Italy


Thursday, August 23, 2012

Normal






We go around life longing to be different. Special. Unique.

To leave a mark in the sand of time.
To stand out.



And then the ground shifts, or shakes, or shatters.
Something happens that threatens all you took for granted.
And then all you long for is normal.



To be allowed to live the life you forgot to value.
To be allowed to have those hundreds of irrelevant moments.
Breakfast and other daily rituals suddenly acquire the attractiveness of an exotic vacation.

May normal be with you. Every day in every way.

Normal rocks.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

summer's coming to an end





Summer is quickly coming to and end. 
As always, time slips by when I'm not looking.
It tip toes past  me  to dance with them.
They're living it, while I'm trying -and failing- to manage it.
Some leaves have begun to fall.
"it's still august!" I yell at them,
but they don't listen. They're busy, 
busy with the matters of life and death,
like listening to  the wind and saving fairies.

 I miss them...  even though they are right  in front of me.

 I often feel like they too are slipping by, dancing away into another world different from mine, 
while I'm busy looking after the noise in the middle,
yelling at them to let me focus on things that melt and disappear right  before my very eyes.

 They look at me bewildered, not understanding, yet forgiving me for my shortcomings. 

 I know  that the days when I have to beg them to leave me alone are counted, 
and then it will be me begging for broken bits of their filled-with-noise time.  
  

Monday, August 13, 2012

New York, New York (photo post)

DUMBO, Brooklyn

Pier One, Brooklyn


Pier 1, Brooklyn


other posts on New York:

First Impressions (on NY)
Does NY make my butt look big?
Turns out they're new yorkers at heart

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

dusk of childhood

dusk of childhood


I can see the dusk of childhood right before my eyes.

Adulthood is nearly here, peaking at us from behind the corner.

Soon the child will be gone and we will get to meet the adult.

...makes me both sad and excited.



Sunday, August 5, 2012

July family self portrait- Matherland

Not everything is what it seems. Not everything turns out as you would expect.






***


This project started in January 2011. I take one portrait of the whole family, myself included, once a month.  I started it mainly because I realized that  was never in any of the family photos. 


It was meant to last  for the duration of 2011, but I'm enjoying it so much that it has carried on into 2012.....  

Every family should do this. 

To see previous months click on the links below:


February 2012- lazy mornings in bed
January 2012- mimes
December 2011- Occupy your life
November- BAM!
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