PictureXS 2000
This is picture number 2000. The second thousand pictures took almost a month to be collected. 1000 months like this one are one million pictures. 1000 months like this one are 83.3 years. I don’t think I am going to be here in 2090, but maybe the web will.
Another project I have is called 1000000. It is not about collecting pictures from the web, but about taking 1000000 pictures in the real world with a digital camera. An average of 100 pictures a day will get the job done in 30 years. That’s not so bad. I started in the year 2001 and I already have 200000 pictures. 1/5 of the total number of pictures in 1/5 of the projected time. Not bad indeed. I will need a different way to look at them and organize them than what I have been using. Folders, tags and iphoto are not enough. Taking all this many pictures this way is like sampling coordinates in the geometry of time. There might be a way to weave all the pictures together into a sort of virtual tapestry, whose axes are history and meaning, all from the perspective of what has been put in front of my eyes by fate (or chance).
