Random Access Memory

fifth year english lit class 1987
Originally uploaded by paintMonkey.

old photos..... now there's something which stirs the feelings...

With people away on various away missions this weekend, and being seriously strapped for cash, i set myself a mini project;
Random Access Memory i called it.
Basically, putting my hand into one of four plastic carrier bags full of old photos and pulling out a handful at random (well it started out as random, but i kept pulling out photos of the same people and things)... uploaded them to Flickr.
A useful exercise all round, found a whole bunch of photos which were not mine, so they have been packed up and returned to their respective owners by various obscure lines of communication, which, both at the same time, draws a line under some things and makes me feel that its a shame for the way things turned out in certain respects.
one thing that did surprise me though... these montage composite things i've been doing digitally for the last couple of years... it seems i've been doing it for the last twenty years or so. I found a whole bunch of what i thought were random, film wasting photos on a theme...only to realise that they had been waiting to be constructed all this time. which was nice. they're quite uninspired but nice that they're done. They've been done and uploaded too.

By a weird stroke of synchronicity, and unrelated to the mini project, i had two old friends contact me this weekend from way back when i lived in London (gawd bless the internet)... and a third's (from uni) email addy was passed to me just as i was uploading a photo of them to Flickr.

[ponders the nature and significance of synchronicity]