Wolterink shoots each individual cupboard, drawer, built-in appliance—even the borders of the image. Sometimes the doors can be easily opened; other times they are removed. He then takes each frame and combines them into one image, so details of the items in the kitchen remain sharp. “My work is a combination of documentary and collage,” Wolterink said. “I usually visit each kitchen twice,” Wolterink explained about the documentary aspect of the project. “I ask them not to clean. The first time I visit is to meet them and talk about the project. When I come back the second time, I know what the kitchen looks like, and I know if they have moved things around or if they have cleaned it!” (via Erik Klein Wolterink: Kitchen Portraits examines the multicultural reality of kitchens (PHOTOS).)

Wolterink shoots each individual cupboard, drawer, built-in appliance—even the borders of the image. Sometimes the doors can be easily opened; other times they are removed. He then takes each frame and combines them into one image, so details of the items in the kitchen remain sharp. “My work is a combination of documentary and collage,” Wolterink said. “I usually visit each kitchen twice,” Wolterink explained about the documentary aspect of the project. “I ask them not to clean. The first time I visit is to meet them and talk about the project. When I come back the second time, I know what the kitchen looks like, and I know if they have moved things around or if they have cleaned it!” (via Erik Klein Wolterink: Kitchen Portraits examines the multicultural reality of kitchens (PHOTOS).)

His piece is worth reading, as it discusses much more, but for now it makes me think about how I have taken photographs lately: How I hold my iPhone in my hand while I walk to snap quick pictures that require no setup or little thought, sometimes taking them simply because I can. How I can make any moment of my day ripe for consumption. How easy it is to absorb a place, strip it of its elements, and run the X-pro II filter over it to make it mine. How those steps of learning in between—the mistakes and outtakes and nuances—are no longer preserved. (via On (New) Ways of Photographing and Consuming | Writing Through the Fog)

His piece is worth reading, as it discusses much more, but for now it makes me think about how I have taken photographs lately: How I hold my iPhone in my hand while I walk to snap quick pictures that require no setup or little thought, sometimes taking them simply because I can. How I can make any moment of my day ripe for consumption. How easy it is to absorb a place, strip it of its elements, and run the X-pro II filter over it to make it mine. How those steps of learning in between—the mistakes and outtakes and nuances—are no longer preserved. (via On (New) Ways of Photographing and Consuming | Writing Through the Fog)

That status comes from Status Shuffle, a Facebook application (and accompanying iPhone app) that allows users to choose from a variety of pre-written statuses and post them to their Facebook profile as if they were their own. According to its creators, it has four million active users a month and is one of the longest-running applications on the site. It’s a minor Facebook phenomenon. (via The Secret Author Of Your Friends’ Facebook Updates)

That status comes from Status Shuffle, a Facebook application (and accompanying iPhone app) that allows users to choose from a variety of pre-written statuses and post them to their Facebook profile as if they were their own. According to its creators, it has four million active users a month and is one of the longest-running applications on the site. It’s a minor Facebook phenomenon. (via The Secret Author Of Your Friends’ Facebook Updates)

"After a wait, the 24 year-old law student got what he was seeking: a CD with all his data stored on it - 1,222 files in all. The collection of PDF format documents was roughly the length Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace but told a more mundane story: a record of Schrems’ years-long relationship with the world’s largest social network."
Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages | threatpost
If you so choose, this information can be used only for one’s personal reminisces, like a private scrapbook stored in a secret place. More commonly, it will be integrated into a Timeline shared with friends, family, and the near-random human flotsam winding up on in one’s Facebook cohort. (Those concerned with privacy can tailor the information to specified groups of friends, or even to shape what each individual friend can view.) (via With Timeline, Facebook Bids To Reinvent The Social Biography | Epicenter | Wired.com)

If you so choose, this information can be used only for one’s personal reminisces, like a private scrapbook stored in a secret place. More commonly, it will be integrated into a Timeline shared with friends, family, and the near-random human flotsam winding up on in one’s Facebook cohort. (Those concerned with privacy can tailor the information to specified groups of friends, or even to shape what each individual friend can view.) (via With Timeline, Facebook Bids To Reinvent The Social Biography | Epicenter | Wired.com)

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