365 breakfasts

I quite like the 365 concept – the thing where you take a self-portrait every day for a year and post it somewhere public, I think Flickr is the standard, as it started as a Flickr pool – but I don’t self-portrait much these days, and after a couple of years of intense turning-the-camera-on-myself, I’ve pulled away from that behaviour, for what I’m sure is a confluence of reasonings.  Food is by far the most photogenic part of my life, anyway.  Besides Tallulah.

I’ve been following simply breakfast here and there for quite some time now.  Her work is simple, beautiful, and full of ideas.  When I am feeling so unsatisfied and uninspired by breakfast that I just stop eating it, I go there.  She’s made it her business to do breakfast for reals.  And she’s dedicated as all getout to this project.

I received a photo of my dad’s labour day (US) breakfast via email the other day, and returned the favour over the last couple of days, showing him what I’ve been eating.  I like that exchange, and I also just really like knowing what people have for breakfast.  That’s not information you necessarily have much access to.  It’s a meal mostly taken in private (generally speaking, it seems to me that breakfast is taken out a lot less than other meals), and it’s one you only share in very certain circumstances.  As soon as you buy a meal, someone else knows what you’re going to eat – it becomes a public experience of a sort.

As you have probably logically deduced by now, I am going to busy myself with the task of 365ing my breakfasts (and of course I’m not the first to do so).  I am never shy of some sort of photographic device, so even if I’m eating toast whilst making a BLT @ the Peach, I’ve got no excuse not to document.  I’m following the rules (where they apply), and I am unlikely to start over if I miss a day – it’s ambitious enough for me to commit to any sort of daily project. The link will be in the sidebar, should you like to follow.

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