I was not particularly excited about doing some of the activities I was assigned, because I didn’t feel like they were very “me”. Every day I was living the ideas and imagined activities of someone else, living many different people’s days. I was in the imagination of a 12 year old boy on Monday, a hopeless romantic on Tuesday, a show-off on Wednesday, a silly yet classy person on Thursday and a sports guy on Friday. Despite my reluctance, at the end of week I realized that I genuinely enjoyed every activity that I participated in, and in a small way - j’avais saisi ma jeunesse {I had seized my youth}!
Monday
Asked Facebook
Assignment - (12 year old responded) u should light a bonfire in your backyard
Tuesday
Asked classmate
Assignment - You should dance in the rain with your husband
Wednesday
Asked stranger in the Wilk
Assignment - Do a cannonball off the diving board in the Richards Buildings
Thursday
Asked best friend
Assignment - Let’s go to Starbucks and wear mustaches
Friday
Asked husband
Assignment - Work on your tennis game
really good photos. Fun idea.
ReplyDeleteI love this. What a good idea. Good work!
ReplyDeleteThe photos are really well thought out. The perspective, the lighting, the variety, I love it! I think I may do this sometime just for fun and to spice things up a little!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great concept. It immediately feels so like Sophie Calle for me. It involves you deeply yet remains whimsical.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are so strong Cassandra! I love all of them! I especially like the first and second pictures, the first one is just great, and the second has such great lines and tells a great story...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love the first picture!!
ReplyDeleteI love that each photo has so much character. The diving board shot has a pseudo-HDR feel to it. The fact that all of these photos are taken mid-action gives it an even stronger feeling of 'jeunesse', a time defined by doing things.
ReplyDeleteExcellent.
i love the idea itself! but it is stylistically well documented and presented.
ReplyDeleteI really love this idea and I absolutely love all of your photos. I think my favorite one would be the one of you and your husband dancing in the rain, but I love all of them. Good work.
ReplyDeletegreat concept, and it was pretty gutsy... i mean what if someone would've asked you to do something absolutely nuts, would you have still done it? and the photos are all very nicely composed.
ReplyDeleteI think I want to blow the first picture up and frame it on my wall. The colors are perfect. The other pictures in here are great to. Such a cool and unique idea
ReplyDeletegreat concept and photos. the whole essay is very engaging.
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