2.01.2010

After a slow month, I finally have gotten to work on list item 2: Print/organize/archive photo collections. It started with disassembling the albums I made as a teenager. [They were not OK] Then organizing the HUGE mess of photos into piles- toss, album, box. Then making sure they were loosely chronological. That was phase one, it was actually much quicker that anticipated.


Phase two, where I started putting them into new albums, has gotten to a good start. I have been holding on to this really nice collection of grey binders that I got for free. I wanted something versatile, clean and simple. Something matching. I just filled them with thick thick heavy acid fee paper, and used white corners or acid free sticky backs to put the pictures in.




I have only completed one binder. It is a big one, and goes from before my time though about kindergarden age. My favorites are always of my parents in the years before I was born. They looked so happy and fun and stylish [which might just be cause I was born in '80, in which mainstream fashion went a little downhill]. My mom was Drop Dead. And my dad was a total cool guy. To say nothing of the film style.



Course I like the ones as of me as a baby>early childhood.


J: look look! wasn't I cute!?!?
B: yes, but you already showed me that one.






Now, I just have to get through the next 20 years.


And all of Ben's.




The last 6 or so years [read; the beginning of architecture school] I largely went digital, and didn't get around to having many prints made. So after I album the prints we have I need to start on THOSE. I have not decided if I want to print the individual pics and album them, or go an easier route and make books....?

7 comments:

  1. Somehow I'm now in charge of all the photos and scraps of paper I save, AND all of He-Mouse's. I like your binders solution. I've been using Canson albums.

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  2. I am lubbing of the grey binders, obv.

    Also, I like it how your iPhones keep sneaking into photos of old-schooly stuff, like albums and actual photos. It's like they feel left out. DON'T FEEL LEFT OUT, LIL iPHONES.

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  3. Very nice. I like your arrangements.

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  4. damn. i knew i would get called out on that.

    obviously this was all on the same time (see the grey binder with the record, too?) and i carelessly failed to remove the iphones. it wasn't quite intentional, but i am usual very careful to remove unwanted items from such shots, so it must not have bothered me too much. and i was too lazy to crop.

    but, those effing phones are never in ANY DANGER of feeling left out.
    ever.

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  5. these are gorg.

    damn, my photos are in boxes on two sides of the country. and I probably haven't printed anything in 10 years :S

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  6. Let me know how the books go. I just don't know how I feel about them yet.

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  7. @brigitta i don't either. after the novelty of the idea wore off, i don't know. doesn't seem the right way to preserve and pass on memories?

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