My life with a cameraphone - Part 1

June 10th, 2008

I love digital cameras. I try to keep one with me at all times, but obviously sometimes it just doesn’t happen. Conversely, I ALWAYS have my phone with me. I cannot function socially if ‘function socially’ isn’t checked off daily on my todo list. Now, the phone has a camera, but I use it sparingly, usually when I need to record information or my regular camera is nowhere to be found. Although I generally save these photos and never return to them, I recently went through them and found many of them to be a far better reflection of my day to day life than the usual digital photos. Ladies & Gentlemen, won’t you follow me on the first part of a two part series…No? Come on it’ll take just a little while…No seriously there’s only like 10 photos…Nah, not allot of writing at all…Ok, cool.

The first thing I noticed is that I take allot of pictures of signs or words. Usually while waiting in line to pay for groceries or something. It really blows my mind what people think consumers want nowadays.

I think this is Sawyer's dad

The Cheesiest kids in America!

for when 'that' uncle comes to visit

DO NOT use on black kids

Then there’s public signs. It seems like people (especially in the Berkeley area) are always having written discussions with the public.

Then there’s the small creative or beautiful things people do around me that don’t generally get acknowledged or are just done for the fun of it.

My mom with Googlie eyes.

Awesome junker truck

Pornography by Mattel

Gender studies desk @ Berkeley

Finally, there’s the things that happened to me and I felt a need to capture the moment. Like the time someone (neighborly) decided to put a fork in our tire because of parking disputes, or the time I was sort of low on grocery money and found myself sadly eating a mashup of soybeans, mushrooms and mustard.

Oh! Thats the fork in the road!

Yuck

This all happened in 2006 during my last year at Berkeley. Coming next is 2007, my first year back in ‘The wood’. Stay tuned, seriously.

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