Flickr Project Reflection
Hi everyone!
Honestly, I really procrastinated doing this project. Doing the readings was fun for me, but actually taking the photos felt daunting. I kept prioritizing other things, and it made me anxious about if I was going to finish the project on time. However inefficient, I found inspiration in that process of procrastination. What McLuhan was saying on page 92 about environment and separation, antisocial behavior, visual rhyming, and amateurism popped into my head while I was on a walk around midnight last night. I had spent an hour or two with people pre-gaming and going bar hopping, but I left early because I felt childish for being sober. Bless their hearts they were very kind and didn't pressure me at all! I just spent my time looking around and feeling like by not drinking I was engaged in some sort of antisocial behavior. Not that sobriety is anything special; I just felt like every place we went had a visual rhyme to them, and in those environments, I was out of place.
I left and went to the playground at city park, which is where I took most of my photos. I had been visiting the park at night when I felt stressed to lay down in the snow and play on the swing set to feel outside of myself. Usually alone, and one time with a friend, I felt happy and stopped focusing on everything I had to do and will have to do to have a future. So, I took photos of the snow angels I had been making around the park, as well as the trees, lights, signs, and a bale of hay that looked to me like a frosted mini wheat.
I like using Flickr because it feels like such a tiny droplet into the ocean that is the internet. I know my photos won't gain traction or go anywhere else, and that's comforting. Unlike in my academic and career ventures, I don't have to be worried about my amateur status, so in these photos I leaned into being an amateur and feeling like I had no direction, but in a fun, childish way.
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