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Mayfly Project

I thought the last post would be the LAST post for this year.

How wrong I was.

I stumbled across The Mayfly Project and couldn’t help myself. I was a sucker for Twitter’s 140 characters, summarizing the year in 24 words? I’m a mad man.

So here goes:

[photography(film)],[good, bad(days)],[nomadic future, embracing immaterialism], [still(geek, dork, student)], [love, hate, sleep, laugh], [depression{therapy(zoloft)}], [nueva york, chicago], allergies.

My favorite part? There’s an easter egg in there.

2007: Take a picture, it’ll last longer

Through the brush,
originally uploaded by Jasmeet.

Twitter is buzzing with people thankful for certain things that happened this year, marking amazing beginnings, sad endings, etc. Made me wonder, is an almost masochist mind frame, what do I have to be thankful for this year?

The answer was staring me dead in the face, really. Photography.

I may have done some photography work here and there, but this year is when I truly took it to a higher level. I took my introduction to photography class where I learnt not just the beauty of film, but the intrinsic value of black and white film photography.

So 2007, we’ve had our downs, but we’ve also had our ups. You made me realize, as lazy as I am when it comes to life, I can be extremely motivated when it comes to something I’m truly passionate about (I spent all day on my birthday in the photo lab (till I got kicked out at midnight), I insisted every print I made be as perfect as possible).

Got to meet a lot of locals around here and share photographic knowledge. I have a regular photoshoot buddy (when he can get away), and I read a decent amount of photography books, and stay up to date on the world of photography through the InterWebs. And yeah, I took some pretty damn good photographs this year too.

This is coming out longer than I really care, and I have other drafts I should be working on and publishing. So 2007, thanks. I took a picture, it’ll last longer.

Happy Happy Joy Joy

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the movie theatre watching The Game Plan (Good movie, by the way) when I noticed a certain gentlemen in the front row thoroughly enjoying the ‘Elvis-ness’ of the intro into the movie. Specifically, Elvis Presley’s ‘Rubberneckin‘. I mean the kind of enjoying where his right hand was waving throughout the entire song length. Naturally, I started drawing some conclusions as to his mental health, but that’s as far as I want to talk about it.

What struck me the most, is how happy said person was. As if, he had no worry in the world. Just , plain simple happiness.

Another week later, on the way to class, I observed a bunch of teenagers just being silly in the car they were driving, begging truckers to honk horns and giggling endlessly when they complied. Crazy? Yeah, but they’re happy.

The more I think about it, the more I reserve judgement when it comes to the insane, crazy things that people do. If you’re not happy doing what you do, why bother doing it?

Indecisive

I can never decide what to do when it’s time to roll forward or fall back for Daylight Savings Time. On one hand, I love watching the clock go back an hour or fall an hour ahead, on the other hand I feel cheated because I wasn’t doing something fun, or being asleep.

Nevertheless, I’m awake right now, and in 20 minutes, I’ll be able to watch one hour magically appear again.

Yep, after all this while, it’s still magic to me.

A New Frontier in Citizen Journalism: Twitter?

When San Francisco shook, I heard it first on Twitter. When Transmit updated, TUAW found out first from a tweet on Twitter.

I’m not alone with this opinion. Hell, Scott did some research to figure out who was the first.

Twitter works. It’s easy, it’s simple. It’s what blogging should’ve been in the beginning.

Citizen journalism at its finest.

Idea for VoIP and Flight

I’ve been reading up on how a lot of people want VoIP blocked on flights. I agree that it’s just wrong disturbing your fellow passengers just to talk about the new shoes you bought in Milan.

An idea hit me in the shower (where most of my ideas come from).

The Phone Booth™.

A section in the aircraft, akin to the restroom on a plane, with one access point that allows connections via UDP port 5060 and the Skype protocol. Make it all glass, and soundproof. Put it this way. If you are desperate enough to make a call, you should be willing to get up from your seat and go into The Phone Booth™.