Man Takes Pictures Of Himself Everyday For 8 Years

Living My Life Faster - 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project from c71123 on Vimeo.

This guy took pictures of himself everyday for 8 years. After he bought his Nikon CoolPix 900 camera, his girlfriend asked if he would be using it everyday with a sarcastic inflection. Little did she know that he was about to begin the project of his life. Click the image to see the video.

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December 17, 2007 at 8:22 am by Algonkin
Category: Pictures

36 Comments to "Man Takes Pictures Of Himself Everyday For 8 Years"

Mrs. Stetz
December 17th, 2007 at 8:53 am
He ended up looking like a criminal near the end.
Jeff
December 17th, 2007 at 9:06 am
it’s so weird that this was posted today. Before I navigated to Neatorama, I just got done watching this http://youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo. What are the chances? lol
Jeff
December 17th, 2007 at 9:07 am
oops. http://youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo
Joh
December 17th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Sometimes he’s a pretty big sexpot. Like when he’s wearing those humongous glasses.

Then that mustache at the end.

Oh man.

Nothing gets me going like that.
Marcelo Porpecelli
December 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Cool, almost had an epileptic crisis though with all those colors! He ended up looking like Jesus in a horribly bad mood…
SiteSeer
December 17th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Well Jeff, I see your synchronicity and raise you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZXVm3YuRw which I just finished watching myself.
FetishForPerception
December 17th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Haha, amazing, how did he keep that up every day for nine years!? :S

Wicked song aswell!
Sage
December 17th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I wonder if these are really true sometimes… there are so many of these videos now, you know a few must be fake.
jiminy
December 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Wow. I remember this guy and his project from around the turn of the millennium. I had bookmarked his site at the time, but lost it and had totally forgotten about him. Glad to see he’s still kicking around out there and continuing with it. Thanks Neatorama for bubbling things like this back to the surface!
Meghan
December 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Whoever he is, this guy is fequin hott!
Can’t imagine doing this for 8 years. A project only a man would embark upon, a woman would look in the mirror and say “A photo? Today? You’ve got to be kidding me!”
Paradigm
December 17th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
He doesn’t seem to age much. Maybe he is Journeyman.
billy
December 17th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
i think it’s wonderful to see the boy become (at least a little) the man.
if he keeps it up over the years it will be a priceless human document.
Ali S.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I can’t say I was a fan of that song he used. Brrr!
Mr. Binky
December 17th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Woman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55YYaJIrmzo
Also, Woman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPPnGsdh0A
Mr. Picky
December 17th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
i want a statistical breakdown of how often and how many times he wears each shirt, as well as how long the longest shirt life is
Jo
December 17th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
mos def got hotter as you aged. I dug the facial hair except for that whole hippie phase.
ted
December 17th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Just a tad narcissistic.
Pudifoot
December 17th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
The Homer Simpson version is better.
chris
December 17th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
he was really really hot there for a while. i would have totally done him. but the feral man look at the end was icko! someones gotta fix him back to how he was.
Brian Link
December 17th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I seem to recall at one point reading of how facial structure changes as we age. With men (perhaps with women, too), one thing that happens is the nose gets longer. With this as my only recollection of that long-lost article, I was pretty amazed to see this fellow’s nose start trending Pinocchio over just eight years! Pause at the outset and again at the end…
jcaraway
December 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I don’t get it, did he start using drugs towards the end?
anon
December 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
i love videos like that. the guy was super cute too, except at the end when he looked like a massive stoner.
Scott Carney
December 17th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
He was a dork in the beginning, pretty cool with his hair shaved and a freak pedophile at the end. My suggestion to this guy: cut your hair and leave it off.
Andrew32
December 17th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
wow, someone discovered weed near the end.
Jerse
December 17th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
That’s not 8 years of footage!

I counted 2347 frames. That’s only 6 years. Liar!
Ellen
December 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am
The fluttering mustache is disturbing, but I like how you can see his jawline/cheekbones become more pronounced with age. Hot.
Rob
December 18th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I could almost be he grew the mustache on purpose near the end just to get that awesome fluttering.
AkaTako.net
December 18th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
that was fantastic! he seemed to stay nearly the same for so long and then all of a sudden turned into a hippie. i wonder how much everyone changes in eight years?
Jon
December 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am
You mean “every day”, not “everyday”. Everyday is an adjective and means normal or average.
Captain Horatio Mindblower
December 19th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I guess that, after the recent conjunction debacle, I’d get a raft of shit if I were to point out that that should be “takes pictures of himself every day“.
matt
December 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
It would be nice if every year he’d slip in a smile picture. Just to mix it up.
Rohin
December 19th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
There are so many of these out there now. I always think “yeah cool idea, I’ll do that!” I’m more than arrogant enough and I’m helluva beautiful so I’m sure everyone would watch it.

But then I realise I just can’t be bothered. And no one would watch it.

Anyway, I just have to film myself concentrating for half an hour and I’ll grow a beard (damn Indian genes).
Thespian24601
December 21st, 2007 at 4:31 am
It kept surprising me when he would suddenly not be wearing glasses or be wearing them again, or when his hair randomly would shave itself then the next second be fluttering in the breeze.
Cool.
MoonCake
December 21st, 2007 at 6:55 am
@Rohin: LOL..

to those who think this is fake– of course it’s not fake. why would someone go through the trouble of taking that many pictures with that many haircuts and shirts and not have it take several years?

this dude was totally hot. and don’t crap on him for [maybe] discovering pot towards the end of this experiment. think of it as part of the process of 8 years of growth, both internal and external. @Thespian: the shaven head thing got me too! i loved that it would go really short and then frizz out. fun.
Craig
January 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
The year 2000. Windows 98 was still the norm, 28k and 56k commonplace and DSL connections of 128k was a thing for the rich and famous. Youtube wasn’t even a twinkle in it’s developers eyes.

If this is not faked, this man shows incredible foresight. Heck, 8 years ago I was a fat 11 year old about to get my growth spurt on. A lot happen in 8 years.
Spazzo
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
What’s the song called?

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