Light Bulb Ideas - 52 Rolls

LIGHT BULB IDEAS

52 Rolls

This year is drawing to a close. That means this website is almost a year old! While I’ll save all my reflections and thoughts on this in another post, I feel a sense of accomplishment overall.

Running a website was my year-long project. I’m close to ticking that off on a high note. What next? A photo project makes absolute perfect sense, am I right? I haven’t really put too much thought in it nor have I done any extensive research. I stumbled across this idea when I was researching on film photography-related websites to follow to be able to find various channels to help continuous flow of film-related ideas. In a list of websites, I read one about 52 roll where one attempts to use a roll of film every week for a year. The project challenges the creativity process - when you’re on creativity overdrive and when you’re a blank slate - while learning better techniques, better ways to handle your camera(s) and many more good things. It’s a bit daunting to think that I have to use up a roll of film every week for an entire year. Could I, perhaps, shorten it to six months? Could I stretch it out to a roll of film every two weeks given my full-time work? In addition to shooting film, developing and scanning photos, there’s also the blogging aspect. Time and me have to find a way to work together.

Well, this is one idea at least.

Light Bulb Ideas - The Mannequin Project

LIGHT BULB IDEAS

The Mannequin Project

A few months ago, I had coffee with one of my managers from work where we talked about his upcoming trip to Europe. Recalling a funny story in his last European trip in Greece where he and his friend found the various mannequins wherever they went quite amusing. This became a little photo blog and what he showed me was quite hilarious, from the stranger poses to the mix ‘n’ match of colours that will yourself stand out in a big urban jungle but somehow works in a paradise like Greece. It’s so easy to find ideas in the most obvious and common things. Looking at things from a different perspective and evoking a feeling is what every photographer would want their photos to do. One just has to have the eye for it. This mannequin-manic phase sparked a little idea to take a couple of rolls of film and focus on a common subject, like a mannequin, something that’s easy to find in the most common of places. Subjects could be anything like lamp posts, a certain colour or theme, books, cameras, hats, you name it!

I’m starting to like this concept. Easy to do, achievable, exciting, and just fun!

More on this later.