{"id":65,"date":"2006-01-24T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/grafarc\/blog2\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-01-24T21:31:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T05:31:31","slug":"obsess-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/2006\/01\/obsess-much\/","title":{"rendered":"obsess much?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you can probably tell from looking at this site, I like to take photos of graffiti. A lot. At least once a week. Two or three times if possible. If a weekend goes by and I haven’t visited at least one of my favorite spots, I feel bad about it. It goes like this: “What if something great went up yesterday, but it gets painted over tomorrow? If I don’t get out there right now<\/i> and take some pictures, it’ll be gone forever. I can’t let that happen!” And so, often against my better interests, I pack the camera in the bag and go. I’ve even considered calling in sick* just to take graffiti pictures.<\/p>\n

Some might call this behavior a bit obsessive<\/i>. I certainly feel that way sometimes. But not anymore. Oh no. For I have seen the work of the true obsessives, and they are mighty. Behold:<\/p>\n

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The Adaption to my Generation<\/a>
\nRoman Opalka<\/a>
\nDiego Goldberg’s March of Time<\/a>
\nNoah K. Everyday<\/a>
\nAlarm Clock Self-Portraits<\/a> (warning: annoying popup window)
\nEyemachine<\/a><\/p>\n

All these projects and many more can be found on AtmG<\/a>‘s wonderful links page<\/a>. (Via information aesthetics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

*(Um, in case my boss is reading this, for the record, that’s never actually happened… though someday it might.)<\/font><\/p>\n

Update:<\/font> Ahree Lee<\/a> has been doing something similar since 2001, and stitched some of her photos together into a pretty seamless video<\/a>.
\nUpdate 2:<\/font> Dan Hanna<\/a> has been doing this even longer, and his video<\/a> involves a dual-camera setup with a 360-degree annual spin! (Thanks to Emre for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you can probably tell from looking at this site, I like to take photos of graffiti. A lot. At least once a week. Two or three times if possible. If a weekend goes by and I haven’t visited at least one of my favorite spots, I feel bad about it. It goes like this: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-related-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}