Throwback Thursday, 12/12/1999

[christopher575]

On December 12th, 1999, I woke up with a mission. I bought a cheap camera, spent the morning walking around taking pictures, had them developed in an hour, came home and scanned them, and used them to write a photo book to send out as gifts. I printed out the pages, took them down to the copy shop to make more copies, and had them copy the instruction book onto purple paper which was then laminated to use as the cover.

I'd only lived in Seattle for a few months, was being worked to death at the office, and was extremely lonely. All I really wanted was for friends and family to visit, but since that wouldn't be happening any time soon, I wanted to recreate the experience of a walking tour of Seattle with me. It was a big hit, and I even did a follow-up in 2004. This was before blogging and social networking were big things. These days, such a project doesn't make as much sense.

I'm glad I managed to get a good picture of myself. It was a film camera and I had no way of knowing how it turned out. I scanned all the pictures two at a time to save time, and this one was scanned with a picture of my cubicle at the office.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I think that's a great idea. I remember the meme of a photo a day on Lj, and a friend was telling me that someone did that same idea with a non-digital camera which was much harder as you can't check the results of course!

It seems such a long time ago that we used film doesn't it?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

It really does. I certainly don't miss the expense, but the suspense could be pretty fun! I remember developing a roll of film after a very rowdy housewarming party. Oy.

[paranoiattaque.livejournal.com]

this is such a cool idea!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

It was fun! It still cost me like 98 bucks or something, but I was able to give out 15 or so. I'm sure now there are cool options for binding and stuff.

[molasses.livejournal.com]

so cool.
did people eventually visit? did they love Seattle?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Oh for sure. Eventually my brother even moved to Redmond. And then I moved to Everett, hehe.