2005 Starts, Things Change

I’ve been struggling with Polaroidiary lately. If you’ve visited semi-regularly over the past few months, you’ve surely noticed. I can’t really say why, but making a polaroid every day has become rather difficult. Sometimes I’ve been too busy, sometimes I’ve simply forgotten, something I can’t find anything I want to make an image of, sometimes my rule of making only one a day feels like a straight jacket.

Originally the idea was discipline: make a photo every day without fail, for at least a year. For a long time I’d managed it with only a few occasional exceptions. After numerous pauses of weeks, I’ve clearly failed with the whole discipline thing. Instead of stubbornly trying to force myself to continue with something I don’t seem to want to do any more, I’ve adjusted my concept. No more daily polaroids. No more almost daily updates. No more only one polaroid at a time. From now on, I’ll be making polaroids whenever I feel like it, as many as I like, as often or infrequently as I like.

In the aftermath of new year’s, bright red firecracker paper, cardboard tubes with bright plastic bases, and boxes of multiple tubes (like this one) with blackened mouths are lying all over the city.