What do you think: is social media a fad? Many have questioned this for years now.. To answer your thoughts this video might give you a little more insight to how big social media has REALLY become, it sure did for me.
Many of you have wondered where I’ve disappeared to the past little bit and I figured with my new photo series complete, now is the best time to fill you in. I’m going to make this short and without much detail, seeing as these issues are very personal.
I have lost my maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, and my 11 year old dog all in the past 8 months. Every time I try to get up and stand on my own two feet I seem to fall crumbling back down. Since I was young I’ve realized that life is short and we only get one. I try and live every single day to it’s fullest, though lately it’s been a struggle to do so.
In terms of the grieving process after a loved one has died, I believe that everyone grieves differently and in their own way. I took the 5 stages of grief theory and transferred the emotions into my 365 day project over the past 5 days and thought I would share with you.
The 5 stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. If you would like to research more about the grief process I recommend Grief (on Wikipedia) and The Five Stages of Grief.
P.S. I will be back again and this time even stronger, I’ve just needed a bit of a break from my online life. In the near future I plan on to start posting more frequently again and re-designing some of this website to include a photography portfolio and possibly a couple other things.
I’m back again for my second attempt at 365 days of self portraits! This time I decided that I would start it on my 20th birthday, which was on July 7th. Turning 20 has signified many things to me including the fact that I’m getting older, time has been flying right on by and I’m only a year away from being completely legal. I figured no other time would be better to start a project like this one since I’ll be able to see my growth between 20 and 21 as a person and as a photographer. By taking this challenge I’m hoping to gain more self knowledge and photography skills throughout the next year.
I invite you to come along for the ride of the wonderful and interesting days that are to come ahead from this project. You can find the photos by either:
My first and unsuccessful try at the 365 day project ended up turning into 19 days of self portraits which can be seen in my Flickr set.
Twitter went down last week on the 8th and is down again for an hour, both were planned. That leaves me wondering what else to do when the fail whale comes up or when Twitter plans scheduled maintenance. Here’s my compiled list of 25 alternative things to do when this happens:
1) Write a blog post about Twitter being down (Ehem, haha)
2) Get on Friendfeed and talk about Twitter being down
3) Get on Facebook and talk about Twitter being down
4) Get on Myspace and talk about Twitter being down (Does anyone use MySpace regularly anymore?)
5) See who else is complaining about Twitter being down
6) Try to remember life before Twitter
7) Read some blog posts from your favorite blogs
8 ) Comment on favorite blog posts
9) Check out new iPhone Apps, like Finger Sprint
10) Rediscover some music in your iTunes library
11) Start watching the TV show that’s in the background
12) Watch a movie that you haven’t seen in forever
13) Find a new game to play online, like Letterbox
14) Upload photos that you’ve forgotten about
15) Check out the explored photos of the day on Flickr
16) Put the computer down and go take some photos
17) Check out Likaholix
18) Get on YouTube and watch videos about Twitter
19) Work on some actual work
20) Visit whentwitterisdown.com to get more ideas
I have never shared the three inspiration videos for my 90D90 project. The first one is the original from Adam Scott Paul, who took over 3,200 photos with his Nikon D90 in the first 90 Days.
The second is from Ryan Aylsworth who did a clean version of his 90D90, which is below, and also has an unedited version.
And the last, but not least, is by Mrik who put together a more time lapse oriented piece.
The spoof of Twitter, Flutter, introduces nanoblogging, which takes down the 140 character limit of Twitter down to 26 characters. I mean seriously, who needs vowels?
Here you go Mr. 500 Internal Error, take that! I did some serious ranting on Twitter the past two days about Dreamhost having issues with the server that my site runs from. I would like to apologize for the downtime and I’m hoping that everything is now set back online for good, or at least until the next problem that arises.
Cathryn Gray is a new media chic with many passions and interests, including photography, modeling, blogging, social media, design, gadgets
(especially those Apple ones), traveling and more.
