A long time coming

Okay, so this until recently aka now,this was a stub blog. It is interesting to think of the hundreds of thousands of "3 post blogs" out there; what made someone decide they needed a forum to speak and more importantly what made them stop.
I hope to start a blog on my website Daniel-Bennett.com so I'm dusting off the old blogspot acct for practice. The best piece of advice i've heard about having a successful blog is to behave like a traditional writer; sit down for a certain amount of time every day and write...that is my goal.

Today/nights topic:
The stride - Where I've ended up since my first thought about Flickr.

For 8 months I've stolen over 1000 images from Flickr. Rauschenberg did it, Warhold did it, and as much as I champion Creative Commons, even if an image is fully copyrighted, I'll do it too. There's something to be said about the event that the picture is from and the disassociation of finding that resulting image.
I can only access an image as far as I know what is contained within its borders [actually there's a psychological theory that we create a narrative beyond the borders of a photograph simply because we can infer what might be going on]. So when we show or "display" images for others we conform to conventions that set up an ideal to best describe what we want to convey is happening in the image. {Alright scoot in, I want to get your everyone in the photo}
*an example: tourist photos. You want to show you've been to the Grand Canyon or the Eiffel Tower. You compose the image a certain way, a way that millions of other have followed as opposed to half your face next to some river bed at the base of the canyon or your hand next to one of the million+ rivets. You take pictures based upon how they will be seen. It's simple I know.

Here, finally, is my point. When sites like flickr and facebook have millions of intimate photos uploded daily (following the conventions of how to take a snapshot) each unique photograph, no matter how bizzare or gonzo, gets added to the list. We, as a culture, can now see how much of the same actions we all perform.

I'll leave that for you to simmer on considering I dont even quite know what it means, But until then DO NOT STOP DOCUMENTING YOUR LIVES (and share it). Peace and holler. DB.