1. Revisiting an Analogue Past?

    After having an encounter on mlkshk.com over some Nick Cave ephemera, I decided to go digging though my old analog notebooks that date back to my years as a University student from the early ’80s to the ’90s. Boy are there some gems in there!

    A couple of things struck me about the process.

    Throughout the books are polaroids, made in a time when while expensive, still infinite in terms of having another go. Now of course, this is all history, making these rediscovered polaroids all the more poignant. To add fuel to the fire some of these polaroid photographs are showing sings of chemical deterioration. A wonderful metaphor for life and time.

    Be prepared for more scans of these images as I work my way through these books.

    The lesson in all this? Keep an analogue AND a digital journal, my analogue journal entries dwindled considerably around 2004, and stopping altogether in early 2008 for nearly 2 years. Why? I’m not sure?  Rest assured, I have gone back just this year, to keeping both.

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      1. digitalsnaps answered: I’m not sure what a digital diary is re photography
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