6 years ago Noah Kalina posted a video to YouTube that blew people’s mind – six years of self portraits put together into a video. The video was viewed over 23,000,000 times and was featured all over the place.
This week Noah posted a new video – this one takes the shots of the first video and adds another 6 years of self portraits to it! 12.5 years of daily self portraits with 4514 images! Here it is!
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13 Responses to “12.5 Years of Daily Self Portraits [VIDEO]” - Add Yours
September 9th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
The idea of the project is pretty cool – I’ve seen others done but on a much shorter scale. While you have to admire the dedication and time it took to compile all that – even the first 6 years video ran for over 5 minutes. When the picture doesn’t change that much from beginning to end, and it’s basically the same thing over and over, it started to get repetitive, and I found myself less interested.
Another 5 minutes added on? Hmmm….not sure that’d be in my “must-see” list…
September 10th, 2012 at 5:50 am
Amazing dedication or a 365 taken to the extremes!
September 10th, 2012 at 9:41 am
there is something terribly intimate about this…
September 10th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Extreme dedication but the music behind it was creepier than necessary in my opinion. It almost seemed like it was gonna be one of those stupid videos where someone pops out randomly and scares the crap out of you…
I do admire the dedication, though.
September 14th, 2012 at 3:03 am
Jeez, call me whatever but looked tasteless and fake. The eye expressions were same, the lips were same color and shape. The light in the eyes are at same spot everytime. REally 12 years ? May be.
September 14th, 2012 at 3:53 am
Besides the obvious, the video is a brilliant visual commentary on the passage of time and on growing older. What a document if the photographer continues till the day he dies, or as close as he can physically get to that, hopefully distant day.
September 14th, 2012 at 7:41 am
what an asshole
September 14th, 2012 at 8:25 am
King Canute the Great was told by his courtiers that Canute was “So great, he could command the tides of the sea to go back”. So Canute had his throne carried to the seashore and sat on it as the tide came in, commanding the waves to advance no further. History records that they did not.
Canute, it took16 keystrokes to enter your pithy comment. It’s taken Noah Kalina hundreds of hours to make a photographic record that received over 23 million hits on You-Tube when first published.
Who is the asshole, when you crap on another’s work?
September 14th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
I agree 100% with leo ray ingle, nothing more to say “Canute, it took16 keystrokes to enter your pithy comment. It’s taken Noah Kalina hundreds of hours to make a photographic record that received over 23 million hits on You-Tube when first published. Who is the asshole, when you crap on another’s work?”
Noah, it is amazing, what a dedication…
September 14th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
to watch it, not simply see it, but to really watch it.
its like sharing a breath of air with someone else.
looking closely you will see so much more than just
dedication to continue.
the music was a choice and reflects much to his steady approach
to the end of his time.
what better way to cherish each day
yet be well aware of the end growing steadily closer as time moves on.
the sheer rapidness of the end as it approaches
and yes another 5 minute? a mere 5 minutes?
omg like 5 minutes is EXACTLY how fast our time passes by!
does that 5 minutes seem long to you?
how does your last 10 years feel? like 5 or ten minutes? I say YES! much to fast!
September 18th, 2012 at 1:12 am
@ leo Ray Ingle: On the contrary, King Canute was demonstrating that no man, not even a king, could command the tides.
September 18th, 2012 at 5:27 am
I appreciate your correction, Steve. I wrote: “So Canute had his throne carried to the seashore and sat on it as the tide came in, commanding the waves to advance no further. History records that they did not.”
What I had meant to say was not that “History records that (the waves) did not (advance???)”, but had I had my morning coffee, I might have written what I meant to say: “History records that (the waves) did not OBEY HIM!”
Dictators and monarchs only have the delusion that they have that power.
Thanks.
Leo
September 18th, 2012 at 5:30 am
Your poetry is both elegant and true, David.
Leo
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