A very quick presentation on the 8.36pm project that I put together for BarCamp Canberra 2012.

1. 8.36pm Project
Clare Conroy
(@webbyclare)

2. What is it?
Daily photo project
1. Take a photo everyday at 8.36pm
2. Upload it (Flickr), tag it (836pm) & share it
(optional)

3. Inspiration
Buster Benson
8.36pm photo for the past 1,393 days (since May 2008)
(www.busterbenson.com)
Jamie Livingston
(www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131)
“Finally my investigation turned up the
photographer as Jamie Livingston, and he did
indeed take a photo every day for eighteen
years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70
camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day”
and presumably planned to collect them at some
point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997
— his 41st birthday.”

4. • Arbitrary time constraint
• Not hand-picking the special moments to save
• Capturing what’s actually there when you
aren’t editorialising your life
• No matter how boring, no matter how many
times you’ve done it before…

5. My 8.36pm Project
Started: 24 September 2009
411 photos

6. % of days with 8.36pm photo
100%
75%
50%
25%
0%
Month

7. Thoughts / observations
• Who are the photos for?
• Observer effect
• Doing = easy, explaining = not so easy
• Patterns / insights revealed over time
• Time machine

8. Links…
http://webbyclare.com/8-36pm/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbyclare/sets/
72157622320359307/
@webbyclare