personal, technology

Yesterday I told you my name. Today I thought I'd show you my face.

I have been fascinated for a long time by people who take their own picture every day and then paste them all together in a video, like 200 Days in 20ish Seconds and Living My Life Faster. So much so that between 1 January 2007 and 29 March 2008 I took a photo of myself almost every single day.

Did I put them all together in a nice movie? Did I bugger. I tried once with Windows Movie Maker but I found it too fiddly. I tried Photoshop so I could achieve pixel-perfect alignment but the task was monumental. I uploaded them in batches on my lucabelletti account on Flickr (don't bother checking it out, there are no public photos now), but the free account photostream only shows the last 200 pics and I did not want to upgrade to pro.

Last March I discovered Daily Mugshot and found that it does exactly what I need. I gave it a few tries, by using a webcam, or uploading a picture from the hard drive, or sending one from a mobile phone, but it was only when I got an iPhone that I found the method that suits me the best: snap pic with iPhone, email to Daily Mugshot, pic appears in my 'mugshow':

I'll grant you it lacks the perfection of manually assembled examples where pictures are resized and perfectly centered, but it was a very easy choice between having 'nothing out there' and 'something that updates automatically whenever I email a photo to it'.

Cherry on the cake: the guy who developed Daily Mugshot is a star (I had a question on how to do something, and he did it for me straight away). Thanks Keith!

I also take a picture of me in underwear (front and side) every month to record my desperate attempts to combat the inevitable sagging that old father time is cursing my body with. Check back tomorrow for those. Er, scrap that actually, I think I'll spare you that one.

Daily Mugshot