366 FRAMES 2012

Thursday, 1 January 2015

My 366 Project: COMPLETED

The project was successfully completed and I achieved my New Year's Resolution for 2012 to complete this project.

Thank you to all who supported this project!

The final photo and the final day - goodbye.

What more can I say?

Check out the About page for more details on this project.

The journey continues in 365 FRAMES 2015...

It's A Habit: The Photographs and Philosophy of my 366 Project

This summative video is a little something I always intended to put together when I first initiated this 366 Project; it was for this reason that I decided I would also produce a number of blogs over the project's duration so as to provide me with plenty of reflective material that I could combine with the photo montage.

As it stands, I am somewhat surprised with just how good it has turned out. I always wanted it to be good, but I never thought it would turn out to be this good.

As with my final vlog, which I recorded 6 months after finishing this project, this summative montage video was something I just did not have the steam to produce immediately after finishing the project at the beginning of 2013 . Certainly, I think this says an awful lot for the advantages for giving yourself a bit and time and space away from something with which you have become intimately acquainted.

However, I have made it now at the close of 2014, as it serves as the perfect warm up and lead into my 365 project for 2015...

366 Project Photo Collage - The Final 366 Photographs

All 366 final photographs collected together into one collage.

My 2012 in 6,505: The Unused Photos (Stop Motion) of my 366 Project

Naturally, when you take a photo a day for a whole year then you will generate some photos that you will not use, but that does not mean that you should throw them away or delete them. While I was undertaking this project, I was very aware that I could make something out of all the unused photographs I was generating; I did not know what I would do with them, but I decided I would keep them all and see what ideas grew out of it.

However, it never occurred to me that what I had sitting on my harddrive was a series of short stop motion animation sequences chronicling an entire year; I only became aware of this after I exported a slideshow of the photos from Picasa and then took that 1 hour and 30 minutes video and speeded it up in my editing software. Ultimately, the above video grew out of that sped-up stop motion slideshow.

Ultimately, I am glad that I have produced this companion video to the main It's a Habit: The Photographs and Philosophy of my 366 Project summative video, because it offers a quirky alternative viewpoint of this project from my point of view and has been instrumental in determining the approach I am going to adopt in my 365 Project for 2015. 365 FRAMES 2015 will not just be individual photos for each day of 2015, it's going to be a little bit more expansive than that.

366 Project Photo Collage - The Unused Photographs

All 6,505 photos. This collage includes the final, the un-photoshopped originals and the unused photographs.

My 366 Project, Vlog 4: Retrospective

In which I look at habits, change and bring my 366 project to its conclusion.

Monday, 31 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 366

31/12/2012. The end has come. 2012 has been a very, very, very productive and an extremely fulfilling year! Although, it has felt more like three years (year 1: Jan-May, year 2: June-Sep, year 3: Oct-now). With this final photo my 366 project comes to its conclusion and my 2012 New Year's resolution attains its completion - if you put your mind to it you really can accomplish anything! Happy New Year everyone :D

Sunday, 30 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 365

30/12/2012. Forget Where's Wally? Where's the Doctor?

Saturday, 29 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 364

29/12/2012. Love my Nexus.

Friday, 28 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 363

28/12/2012. Heading back to Bag End.

Thursday, 27 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 362

27/12/2012. Yes, 'Life of Pi' is a very well made film but it's true brilliance lies in the profound impression it leaves you with. The film was also presented in Dolby Atmos and it sounded pretty amazing!

Wednesday, 26 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 361

26/12/2012. The joys of Lego.

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 360

25/12/2012. I got my Google Nexus 7 for Christmas (Yes, horror, I didn't ask for an iPad) and, more importantly, I got my Brita water filter kettle - this bad boy makes the world's best green tea! It's the little things that keep the evil at bay.

Monday, 24 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 359

24/12/2012. I asked nephew Charlie to rate 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' (and IMAX) out of ten. His words when leaving the auditorium were "best cinema ever," there's definitely an IMAX gene in my family!

Sunday, 23 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 358

23/12/2012. Only had to wrap one present this year - thank you Amazon!

Saturday, 22 December 2012

My 366 Project: Day 357

22/12/2012. The postman delivered a Birthday card (a week after my Birthday), an energy bill (I won't be opening that until my next loan installment lands), some more reading material for my dissertation (lovely jubbly, but I wish I had time to read it properly) and three 'Django' films from LoveFilm (they're rip-offs of the original).