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12hr Project

Posted Jul 22, 2003 (Updated Apr 29, 2009)

Brad Brace has been uploading a photo to the Internet every 12 hours since December 30, 1994. The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG project is a continuous posting of "sequenced hypermodern imagery," usually black and white photos of city life, which are simultaneously posted to FTP sites, mailing lists, and Usenet's alt.12hr newsgroup.

So, does that make the 12hr Project the first photolog?

July 31, 2003: I e-mailed Brad, and he said that a complete archive doesn't exist; even he doesn't have copies of all his photos. I've compiled a partial archive of all the photos I have, about 780 so far. If you have any more, or know where to get them, please let me know.

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Jul 22, 2003
12:56 PM

alex kidd wrote:

has he ever missed a day? jesus some people are NUTS!

Jul 22, 2003
1:25 PM

Adam wrote:

Has he used progressively newer camera models, or does he stick to something simple?

Jul 22, 2003
2:15 PM

pb wrote:

More proof that weblogs are just re-inventing usenet. ;)

Jul 22, 2003
2:17 PM

Andy Baio wrote:

I just posted samples of some recent photos and some older ones. They look very similar to me.

Jul 22, 2003
8:42 PM

roXet wrote:

wow, that's really freakin' cool.

Jul 22, 2003
10:11 PM

Taylor wrote:

It is cool — I think it's that there IS no archive that makes it so appealing; so worth checking every twelve hours. (When does he sleep?)

Jul 23, 2003
3:19 AM

@rth wrote:

I so much want THAT kind of staying power. I can't help but think it's 95% of being an artist.

Jul 23, 2003
5:05 PM

Shawn wrote:

Somebody buy that guy a camera phone!

Oct 27, 2005
4:35 PM

brad brace wrote:

the 12hr project continues... the jpeg-posts are actually special scans (that I trust others to retain) of the many thousands of prints re-organized in bins in my closet... so some prints _do reappear in sequence when appropriate...

The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html

Oct 27, 2005
4:38 PM

brad brace wrote:

+ + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace
+ + + eccentric ftp:// (your-site-here!)
+ + + continuous hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au
+ + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace
+ + + imagery ftp://bjornmag:Sobject@kunst.no/12hr/

News: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc alt.12hr

. 12hr email
subscriptions => http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html

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