Would you like an Interview by yours truly?
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions to be more intimate!
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are the questions "Jet":http://evolving-lines.livejournal.com/ asked me:
1. *If given the opportunity to photograph one person every day for the next year (a photographic study of their daily life), who would you choose?*
Wow. What an incredible project. This is something I would love to do. I'm not sure if you're looking for a specific answer, or a general one, so I'll go with general first.
As much as shadowing someone famous would bring me a small bit of fame myself, fame doesn't really interest me, in others or for myself.
I'd like to photograph a "regular person". Someone who works for a living, either in the home or outside of it. I'd like to work with a female because I feel I can get closer to them than I can men. I'd like to photograph someone making it in the face of adversity. Maybe a young single mother, 25-35 years old, trying to make it in the world, care for her children, and still have a bit of a social life, all without little to no financial help from anyone.
Specifically speaking, I'd LOVE to do a project like this with a few of my friends and acquantences. Again, I'd prefer to work with a female. And I'd prefer someone with a more active life. I'd like to mix it up between candid photographs of real life, as well as dramatic reenactments of reality, and a this and thats just for fun on the slower days.
2. *Describe a seemingly random moment from childhood that you just can't seem to forget.*
When I was in the 3rd grade I had a friend named Scott. One day, at recess, we were playing on the Monkey bars. I don't know what possessed me to do so but, as he was about to start climbing up, I punched him in the back as hard as I could. He fell and laid in the sand for a long time. Then he got up when the bell rang and went back to class. He never told on me and we never spoke of it again.
3. *What's your favorite sound? (Yes, this is a repeat of one of Jess's questions, but I like to hear people's answers.)*
That a tough one. It could be any number of natural sounds. My most favorite are the more common ones: winter birds feeding themselves at a well stocked bird fever; wind rushing through trees in the fall; rain pitter-pattering on a pine-needle covered forest bed.
4. *Which is more important, being happy with your job and having no time for extra curricular activities, or not being happy with your job and having plenty of free time for extra activities?*
I used to think that having extra curricular activities was crucial. However, as I get older and older I realize that more and more time is spent (both physically and mentally) at work and that being happy at work is very important. However, any job that takes up so much of my time that I have none left for any extra curricular activities means I also have no time for my family and friends. And, without family and friends, there's really no point in being here in the first place.
5. *What food do you consider "comfort food?"*
I don't think I really have a comfort food. If I'm going to curl up on the couch watch TV and relax, though, my food of choice is Popcorn, made in a pan from real kernels, with no butter.
