Ten Years and One Day Every Day on Polaroids (1999-2009): Not for sensitive viewers

[ConfusedPyroManiac]

wtf man there's a naked pic

[Hoptak]

THERES A NAKED PIC

[shazamman101]

there should be wayyyy more veiws for this

[PompousPreacher]

I saw something similar to this a few months ago on MSNBC's site. Some guy decided to film himself every new year's day from 1974-2011. You can see the guy go from a teenager to almost elderly.

[Tiptuuup]

This is great, very very cool!!!

LIKE

[bafmd]

"bleep" annotation didn't quite cover it. :D

[darintaylor79]

this is awsome ur the same guy who has a video of you from 1984 when your interviewed as a kid who already designed 40 computer programs and was going to a summer school program.

[febmonki]

this is awesome. i feel like i'm watching a film of your life. i'm doing something similar, daily photo project. i'm very inspired after seeing this :))

[iTzA72CH3R]

wow this wud be awesome to play at your funeral kinda of depressing to say but its true and i love watching your beard repeatedly grow back over and over and over again lol

[marctasman]

@iTzA72CH3R kind of depressing, but true, we are all worm food eventually. BTW, even though I stopped photographing on July 24, 2009, I'm having a big beard day, today. ;) Beard Update! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[averagefilms1]

@marctasman

what made you stop?

[averagefilms1]

00:20

[macnchaz]

where the hell did you get all that polaroid film?! i can hardly find it anywhere.

this is awesome though :D

[vwfast0517]

always love watching this!

[marctasman]

@vwfast0517 Thank you!

[xTRICKYxx]

By the way I replayed this video just to watch your beard grow.

[xTRICKYxx]

This is so cool. Hope that was a good 10 years for you!

[Alien031]

Just got the APM podcast. Nice work. :D I'm happy for you and your project and I enjoyed this :D

[marctasman]

Aww! thank you! :-)

It was fun talking with Dick Gordon!

[thebookpusher]

Interesting that you seem to be much happier at the end of the ten years!

[marctasman]

@thebookpusher Yeah, I felt like I had a chance to demonstrate some emotion and comment on that period, and life in general. It is special to be a living creature!

[martycute]

i start today. so very excited. you said you went to an art school on npr?which one?

[marctasman]

I went to the Allen R. Hite Art Institue at the University of Louisville, BFA, Drawing, Photography, and got an MFA in Photography from The Ohio State University. The eleventh is a great day to start. Good Vibrations!

[bizintin]

@marctasman

Perhaps next interview say "got mfa". :-)

[bizintin]

I like venemarks's suggestion for a click by click version, or just slower,or lingering little more often & little longer on a photo., esp the one's with son (wife, too?) He goes by so fast. I like second video with the consistency of the window and light above. It is good you keep reworking the raw material on youtube. I found you thorough NPR..aren't they the best? Let's hear it for your parents, shopping around for your film. By the way you are an artist, not just "I went to art school".

[marctasman]

Fore sure! ;) I was an artist before I went to art school, too. Maybe even an artist in spite of going to art school. Yes, I'm actually using Adobe Bridge to embed metadata for more interactivity and fabulous taxonomic possibilities. Go parents! Yay, and NPR, too.

[bizintin]

@marctasman

Go Marc. Parents must think you are pretty cool.

[bizintin]

Interesting.Aso like seeing it slowly as I drag it manually. Think it's too predictable to say this is egocentric. I ask myself why isn't it quite wonderful to document one's own life, one's own image. What really is difference between one's own face and a landscape or vase of flowers. Am 75,would like to do it monthly, watch changes in my face. They happen more quickly now. Thanks for idea. Also like how you pause every once in awhile on a photo. Interesting how your eyes remain the constant.

[103617]

Heard you on NPR, like so many here. I'm sending it to everyone. Thank you.

[kebirusingh]

Heard this on npr....Incredible work.  Thank you.

[martycute]

I heard about this on npr and not to cram your style but i think im going to do this only with a little twist. I'm going to take a picture every day for ten years with a new person. That way I can look back at every person i've met in ten years. Not sure if to do it with pollaroids or with a digital camera though. Digital camera = easy. Pollaroid = genuine photography.

Either way thank you sooooo much for all the inspiration you've given me (and many other people)

[marctasman]

I love this idea. I've been doing something related, sporadically, with my remaining polaroid film, taking pictures of people who aren't me. People who visit us, or hosts who we visit. Yours sounds like a very generous project!

[mikethengineer]

Looks like you found your smile there towards the end. Great video. Heard about it on NPR.

[ccdvt7357]

This is WONDERFUL!!! I heard you on VPR today and I couldn't wait to get to a computer to watch it. Can't wait to share it with my friends.

[marctasman]

So nice, I'm happy you found it!

[joeyrock]

This is one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen.

[marctasman]

Thank you!

[crazypeoplerule2]

dude this is epic. videos like urs should be at the top of youtube getting millions of views. it is just an insprations to know people put so much effot and time and creativity into there videos to share with the world that is what youtube is all about. im looking forward to the next ten years. :)

[marctasman]

Thanks, Dude! I'm looking forward to the next 10 years, too, but I won't be making a self-portrait every day. I need a rest, and a chance to enjoy an accomplishment. I really appreciate your warm comment!

[quixgofar]

Your wife must be pissed off with all those polaroids spread all over the floor.

[marctasman]

They covered many surfaces of our home at various times. She forgives me. ;)

[travisswarren123]

Congrats! this is awesome.

[marctasman]

Thanks!

[SuperDan53]

Right now, being 15 and all, when it comes 2010, im gunna do this every day for that year, look at the end and see how iv changed

[marctasman]

Did you start yet? Keep me posted!

[torytor16]

this is awesome!  I kinda wanna do this now haha

[marctasman]

For sure, you should! You should check out Ahree Lee and Amanda Albee, too.

[stephaniebarney]

did i see you with a giant gummi bear?

[marctasman]

I don't remember a giant gummi bear? lolz. If you tell me when in the video you think you saw it, I could tell you what it was :)

[stephaniebarney]

humm cant find it i think i saw a shadow or something ol

[ehlevine]

Finally watched this.  So cool. I love it.

[OhMyGod6428]

thats absolutely amazing :)

[adDWH]

i'm majorly impressed dude, i like the track too it's really trippy and sonic youth like. Nice job

[smartzke]

Nice job dude!

[aliemck]

This is lovely!

[gridworks1]

congrats marc! this is awesome!!!!

[marctasman]

Thanks, friend!

[kickflippin22]

its cool how so many unremarkable pictures come together to be pretty effin cool

[venemark]

Brilliant. Love the transition from jewish angst to smiling family fulfillment. Beautiful work. Now can you make a 20 minute version or a click by click version?

[marctasman]

Glad you caught that! Familiar, isn't it? Working on embedding all scans with metadata for flickr or polanoid database. Could you handle 20 min?

[alexdepies]

awesome man, what song is that gnarly guitar riff from?

[marctasman]

Thanks! That's my own riff but probably most influenced by Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville and Sonic Youth's Sister and Dirty albums. Classics.

[TimeLapseSteve]

That's amazing dude.

[selasie777777]

I'm glad you started smiling at the end, it gives one hope, even though hope is a waking dream.

[marctasman]

I'm glad I started smiling too, January 20, 2008 at 4:37. It was like I woke up and realized that whether you're conscious or unconscious, this is it, this is life.

[selasie777777]

nice idea and the results speak 4 themselves!