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1 July 2010

#183 Make a real photo album

This photo from the past is already in a real photo album. But it is time to put it into my own.

This photo from the past is already in a real photo album. But it is time to put it into my own.

The other day I thought of something that made me quite dizzy. I had to keep one hand on a door frame and the other was wiping sweat from my forehead. The room spun around and the floor was beginning to give way.

I realized that I barely have a single physical photograph from the last five years of my life. Everything I have is digital. What if the Internet crashes! What if all the CDs with images disappear! If the hard disks are stolen, if they break, or stop working! Five years of my life that’ll be gone. No photos. Nothing.

Now, I have embarked on a campaign. I've split up the task into three stages:

1. To seek out all the photos from my hard drive, friends' hard drives, Facebook, and the Internet.

2. Sort out the best pictures and order photo copies of them.

3. Buy a photo album and insert the photos. Write captions or just the date. Save them. Just for me.

Required time: 
1 week or less
Cost: 
Under 500
Cons: 
Printed photos can also disappear, burn up or get misplaced.
Pros: 
There is a certain charm to sitting and browse among physical analog images. Especially when the whole world is digital. Especially now, like a counter-revolution against the digital one.

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