Inspired by Sohini's LOLnotes, I'd like to formally submit to the blog a parallel photocentric game for our amusement: a weekly(ish) photo scavenger hunt.
Susan and I have put together a working list for future assignments, and the plan is to announce one each Monday. Then we all would have a week to find that photo, in our own archives or around town. All are meant to show mundane stuff so hopefully this is doable and fun. And by focusing each week on want topic while spreading them out over the months, we should have some automatic blog content without much creativity required!
Organized by category, this list so far includes:
Household
bathrooms/toilet
kitchen/stovetop
room decor
laundry
Food
breakfast
streetfood
dinner
"American" food
local fast food
American fast food chain
bars/clubs/nightlife
desserts
Transport
cabs
buses
motorbikes
other
Fashion
hair styles
footware
Scenery
local animals
neighborhood shop
mall
Pop Culture & Advertisements
celebrity endorsements
white for brown ads
education campaigns
romance
pirated dvds
other imitations (I'm thinking of the fake apple store, fake best buy, etc )
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Groundrules
In my mind at least, this is in no way supposed to be a performance of fieldwork suffering, nor even should these photos necessarily be representative of our respective fieldsites, whatever that would look like. Rather, I think they should be just the opposite. That is, since this evolving into a nice little intimate space for us (and our loyal reader Andrea -- anyone else out there I don't know about?) I would like to see just what your lives are like, including the indulgences and privileges we all share in different ways, thereby dispelling those images of huts and loneliness once and for all. Of course, if anyone wants to elaborate on these subtleties and differences in a longer discussion or disclaimer with their photo, that would be welcome as well.
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First up (and the sick inspiration for this whole thing): TOILET-SCAPES!!!!
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Sidenote for Colin
This task might seem especially ill-fitting for your own fieldwork, but I would like to disagree in advance, particularly if you can recruit the participation of one special somebody to populate your photos : )
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Um. So the labels you chose for this post and its accompanying year-long blog challenge, Stacey, caused me to laugh so loud I think I scared my compadres upstairs.
And what is fieldwork, after all, if not a lot of TMI related to the time we spend in our bathrooms. Game on.
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