My God that's an amazing idea.

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What an utterly awesome idea.

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this turned out really well. I saw the initial post and have been wondering how it all went. Love it.

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I KNEW there'd be a cat in there somewhere. :D

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i think there were three total in the big pile. maybe four.

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Kyle, this was a lot of fun to participate in. Thanks for organizing it and making it happen!

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this is very, very cool. reminds me walker evans and his sneaky camera under coat contraption and of the 10 golden rules of lomography. i think "candid" is the word i am looking for. i like it.

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I found the website when I copied it from one of your pictures of one of your lectures. So I looked through and was sad I missed your calling for this!!!
Very very cool!!

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It's so lonely. That's the first thing I notice, how nice the exceptions are, where the photographer was in the company of others and could photograph that, but how most of them are alone at the time they are beckoned to photograph.

It's a great way to take a cultural snapshot, really. The message I get is that we're a culture of loneliness.

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This was really fascinating to me too! Out of the 11 photos I took - 8 contained people. It's interesting too, because in the photos that I took that weren't of people, there were people standing next to me, behind me - everywhere but in front of me.

For example, in this photo:

It looks as if I am completely alone, but at the time the photo was taken my husband was to my left, and two of my best friends in the word (bridesmaid and groomsman at my wedding) are standing off to my right.

There is certainly a collective feeling of loneliness in the photos, but is that, in fact, an illusion? Are we really surrounded by people that we sometimes cannot see? It's an interesting idea!

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"Over the weekend of June 13th and 14th I sent eleven SMS text messages at random times to everybody in the group and they pressed the shutter buttons on their camera, photographing whatever happened to be in front of them at that moment."

And thus you got lots of photos of tiny cellphone screens, each displaying a "take a photo" message from Kyle Cassidy.

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Bwhahahahahahahaha...

Too funny.

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Wow! That is so much cooler than posed faked photographs that are supposed to be candid but aren't.

Fantastic idea! Wish I'd thought of it. :-)

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HURRAH! It was an amazing blast to participate in, and actually has got me thinking about photos when I have cause to take them.

(Also, my last name? Seagraves. Just sayin' :)

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I love you, Lewis.

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はやく逢いたいな。
だって、7年間、8年間、ずっと逢いたかった。

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really amazing. i wish i had seen the call for this...

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Kyle, you're just a fountain of wonderful and creative ideas. :D This is fantastic! Can't wait to get home so I can look at it properly. :D

ps do you find that the more cool ideas you think up, the more cool ideas come hot on their heels?



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I've lately wondered how some authors can be so prolific, book after book after book without, seemingly, a pause in between to celebrate. but i think in part that when your mind is in that stream you realize that these "ideas" can be "finished things" -- it's that realization more than anything else, i think -- knowing that you can, in fact, turn it into something and because you know that, you try. other people may have a nifty idea and just let it go.

next time you're at a party and someone says "we should--" maybe you should take them up on it.

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Wait what? The United States and Canada... The original post said it was limited to Americans. :(

I was willing and interested...

Now I know the universe hates me. This is the third collaborative project I've missed out on this summer. I must give off bad vibes or something. Do I smell funny?

Fascinating and beautiful project though.

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I've never participated in a collaborative project and I'm quite sad I missed this one because I see how wonderful it's come out!

I'm sure you don't give off bad vibes though...just a a spot of bad timing.

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Great idea and great project!

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i love this!!! my brain is running overtime with project ideas right now. thank you :)

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really cool project.

did you send texts out really randomly or did you have some sort of system?

bravo, you guys. thank you for sharing a bit of your daily lives

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no system. just whenever it struck me. i'd be looking at a scene and think "this would make a nice ... ooh! i'll take 23 photos .... click!"

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Oh wow, this is so cool! I was wondering what you were up to. I love this, it reminds me almost of a visual version of Twitter -- "what are you doing right now" captured in photos. People driving, sleeping, out & about... neat to have those moments frozen in time for all to share.

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Gorgeous idea, wish I had responded - but this is just lovely and gives much food and inspiration for thought XO

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Wow!

There were some pretty nifty pictures taken, that's for sure. And of those which have people in them, I can picture them asking why on Earth the picture was randomly taken, and the answer being "Because Kyle Freaking Cassidy told me to!" Because that would totally be my reply. *grins*

Keep up the good ideas!

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I'm reminded of that guy in the Andromeda Strain who says "I have one job here. I wait until this bell rings. Then I push this button right here."

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thats such an awesome idea!!! im sad i missed the chance to be a part of it...i will have to do this for myself when i get a chance

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That icon is one of my favorite panels in that series. <3

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This was so much fun, and come Monday morning, I was sad that it had been so short. I'm ready to do it again, to tell you the truth. :)

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Signed!

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That is an awesome idea.

Do it again.

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