In yesterday's post, I got so caught up in my obsession with the march of time that I forgot to mention Samesies, "a project started to highlight how different people can essentially take the same pictures." I can't tell yet if these are photographs taken with the intention of being the same, as homages to each other, or accidents. Either way, I think Geoff Dyer would find it interesting based on the threads he was tracing in his book.

Also, minutes after hitting publish yesterday, I coincidentally received an email from Jim with a link to a blog post about the use of William Eggleston's photographs on the covers of albums. I'm the one idiot in New York who failed to get to the Eggleston show at the Whitney last year, and I'm still kicking myself over it. So I never realized until now how often his photographs were used for album covers (apart from Big Star stuff).

While I'm on the topic of photography, I should mention that you may start to notice some text reading "Order Print" beneath some of the photographs that appear on this site (if you're reading this post through an RSS feeder, you won't see this). I've noticed some bloggers using a service called Fotomoto to allow people to purchase prints of their photographs, and decided to try it out on this site. I feel a little bit like I'm pushing my self-published novel on you here, but I'm not asking you to buy these, I just wanted to make them available to anyone who might be interested. And I promise: you can always come here and look at them for free. (I'm still working out pricing, sizing, and edition numbers, so this feature may not be activated for a few more days.)

Finally, because it's relevant: an Eames promotional film for the Polaroid SX-70 (via Amy Stein)

We have been looking at one invention which began pretty purely out of the conception of a need, the hope to change the person who takes pictures from a harried off-stage observer into someone who is a natural part of the event.