Let them be

original alt text: "I hate when people take photos of their meal instead of eating it, because there's nothing I love more than the sound of other people chewing."

I think I've been one to flip-flop between these two ideas, and reading this swung me toward the let-them-photograph side because it makes a lot of sense. Especially, perhaps, for someone like myself.


Does having the ability to photograph an experience make my memory less strong? Perhaps. I have been one to say that. But it also means I can look back on that experience, literally. It means I can share it with others with more than stumbling words. It means I go and search for more similar experiences. And it means when I do forget it, I can find it again.


So, it's true, there will probably always be people taking more pictures than they need to and who are forgetting what is in front of them, but may we let them be. Most of us just want a picture, of an experience, that we want to remember, because it is special.

I searched "running" on WIMP, and then...

...ended up watching the best music video I've seen in a while. I feel like I've been missing out on something in life. The WIMP video was posted on September 28 of some unknown year, and the YouTube video was posted in summer of 2010. And lo and behold, there are several more videos of these chaps I'll have to check out sometime.

I loved the first minute or so especially. Such form, such eloquence, such suavity.

UPDATE: I've watched a couple more of their videos and they are all awesome. These guys. Awesome. It's a lame comparison, but due to my ignorance I'd describe the music as a Japanese Owl City. But very catchy. And their accents. Oh man. It's their videos that make it, though. They film a lot of the scenes in random places during daily life, so people stare and join in and it's all sorts of fun. So cool.

Weird Beard

The end of this. This guy knows what's up. What a cool little photography project. (I saw this via thekidsshouldseethis, an awesome blog.)