Nov
30
2012My Eyes Are Becoming Rectangular
By the glow of the 21″ Sony CRT, circa 2004.
(1920×1080, specifically. I currently use a 21″ iMac.)
I reek of Starbucks. Client meeting. Another wedding delivered. Biggest print job ever: 742 photos. (The photo lab handed it over to me in a box.) Downloading a movie to forget about editing for one night, except that when I watch I know what will happen: my brain will launch Photoshop and my mouse will be editing the actors’ faces onscreen.
Is there a name for this disease? Repetitive Editing Eyestrain? Autopilot Mouse Hand?
Zhu
You look great! Getting younger every day. Seriously, it doesn’t look like you are aging…!
That’s what I call a print job. Holy shit, almost 800 pictures…?! Must have been heavy too!
Gail
I just figured out that you’re probably not joking, that you might’ve not seen the caption to the photo that says ‘circa 2004’! I was 8 years younger when I took this photo, it was one of my first self-portraits not so long after joining Flickr. In fact, the first comment under that photo is written by the founder (he left the company in 2008?).
I didn’t want to give the client a box, so I bought a nice bag for it but it was so heavy I didn’t know if the handles would break — I had to put it in another bag!