Life Is A Life Sentence (Hotline 40)

[@Lupinthe3rd88]

Probably one of the best episode of the Hotline series!

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you

[@imalazyrobot]

I’m on year 13 of my photo-a-day. I started in 2011, and I’m 54 now. Thanks for the inspiration Noah. I also took a photo-a-day of my new born son for a year in 2014. None of these photos or movies have ever made their way to social media and never will 😌 Don’t get me started on missing days. I live in New Zealand and often fly to the Cook Islands on holiday. Have you ever wondered what crossing the international date line will do to your photo chronology? I’ve since standardised all my photos on NZ time, regardless of where I am in the world. Just so I don’t have to resolve the challenges around dates 😂

[@NoahKalina]

That’s awesome. One or two of my missing days is from crossing the international dateline :)

[@imalazyrobot]

@@NoahKalina Going backwards and forwards in time is a bigger problem than people imagine.

[@AFJR2312]

Congratulations to Mike for those 17 years of daily photos, that consistency is really amazing :D. In May of next year it will be 6 years with my own everyday project. When I was a very small child I was a very inspiring boy, I loved watching videos about the passage of time in people, and when I found you in 2019 in your 12.5 years video when I was 12 years old, I was inspired by you and I started. May 10, 2019, I am very grateful :), now I'm about to be 18 in 15 days, time flies...

[@NoahKalina]

That's awesome. Happy almost Birthday.

[@AFJR2312]

@@NoahKalina Thank you :).

[@ArturBerteli]

What an awesome episode. I loved the references you mentioned; some of them, like Karl Baden and Tehching Hsieh, I only discovered this year. It’s fascinating to see how different artists approach the concept of self-portraits and use them to explore themes that are deeply personal yet universally relatable. I think my idea with self-portraits was never about creating art, but more about documenting moments or experimenting with perspective. That’s why I find it incredible that you and so many others have transformed this simple act into unique works with meanings that go beyond the 'trivial' act of taking a self-portrait every day. It really opens my eyes to the depth that can be found in what initially seems like a straightforward practice.

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you for calling, Artur. Call back again soon.

[@doublenegative4real]

I really loved this episode. I'm fascinated by art that tackles the passage of time. There's a location I drive past maybe once a month or every couple months that I've been photographing for 14 years in different ways with whatever camera I have at the time (Polaroid, phone, digital, film). Part of me wishes I took the same exact photo every time for cleanliness sake but I realized the photos are probably documenting me and my maturing photographic eye than the actual landscape itself. I need to call in again soon, I've actually got an end of the year question I want to throw your way.

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you., Will. You're probably right.

[@danconnollyvideo]

Great video Noah. Really appreciate your taking the time to indulge our curiosity on these things. Found your insights into art and creativity to be illuminating. Will be mulling them over for a bit.

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you, Dan.

[@ajb7753]

Beautiful as always. Mike's tripod kid on lap idea reminds me of Rinike Djikstra's portraits of Almerisa, who she photographed 8 times over 11 years. Sometimes too many pictures smudges the passage of time, these eight pictures are incredible markers of a changing life.

[@NoahKalina]

See also Nicholas Nixon - The Brown Sisters

[@scottsymes]

Hotline XXXX feels like the appropriate one to cover your Everyday project. I have no illusions you had hesitations about the topic and I think you did it justice. Really enjoyed the similar projects you highlighted too. Life is a life sentence. Wow.

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you

[@TimMcFarlane]

I was thinking about the passage of time this morning and how it just continues and how much actually happens from millisecond to millisecond all over the world and out into the universe. If we really think about it, we'd go mad. Nothing stands still, only our minds make up ways for us to think about time that's digestible.

[@SusannahBreslin]

this was a good episode

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you

[@marklevine1100]

Art is a life sentence!

[@montecarlomethod-youtube]

Mom is fab!

[@BillAmstutz]

Great episode. Perhaps the best one, but why rank them? They're all pretty good. I would love to see an everyday project printed on a series of flip books making the passage of time something you can hold in your hand. It's okay to steal this idea.

[@NoahKalina]

Thank you, Bill. This idea has been suggested. The economics might not be great on flipbooks.

[@LaughingLionMedia]

A gooder episode

[@xXFreestyler316Xx]

Wow, I can’t believe i randomly stumble over your videos every few years. The first time a saw a video of you was around 16 or 17 years ago. I love your dedication so please keep going. Greetings from germany.

[@NoahKalina]

Welcome back

[@ALIVEDJP]

“it was all for what”