I came to a realization just now when I found an article on TechTV about photo-based weblogs1. The author links to three very cool pages: Slower.net, A Day in the Life, and The Mirror Project. They’re all well-designed pages filled with wonderful images. And that’s when it dawned on me: I don’t really care about still images. I’ve never been interested in museums, and often felt like I was being dragged to them in school. When people show me photos of vacations, I love looking at them, but only to see the subject of the picture. I just don’t care about the art of it all. And this is odd for me, considering my background in film and love of comic books. I think this is because, though both are visual-based, they also convey motion through their frames. I don’t know why, but I’ve just rarely been interested in still visual art beyond my interest in what’s happening in the picture. Maybe I’m too rooted in narration and plot and need to step back and just enjoy them for their beauty. Hmm…
- Photo Blogs: A photo blog is one where people tend to post pictures that they’ve taken instead of posting prose like I do. ↩