maandag 17 maart 2008

what if..there was a new type of photo album?






picture courtesy memorylanemedia
"She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place…at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory…”
Perhaps some one can help me with this, because I have been thinking about storytelling,
mem(e)ories and... photo albums;

More and more I (and a lot of people are) am creating memories via not only photo's, but blog posts, text messages, emails etc..


But if I wanna share and file it all, and my mum wants to have her friends look at all the memories, there is no one album that fulfills this need of mine.


There is virtual sharing, blogging and filing, but it lacks the physicality of being able to sit next to a person and leading them past memory lane, adding those little details/stories that are triggered as you relive memories and pass them on to loved ones...

So.....what if there was a hybrid : A Memory album
Basically an album/book/ where I could place (upload to) all my text messages, photo's (digital and prints), mails, posts (and all the feedback, which is a great part of the fun of sharing), twitter entries, postcards, e-cards etc... so I can tell grandkids (lord willin') about the memories they hold for me?


Maybe because I work at a publishing company that I just love the feeling of a book or a magazine placed in my hands.....Maybe I have just not searched very well yet and this type of album is in production already...


Anyways...I can't find it yet....so does anybody have alternatives, or feedback for me?

3 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

I've looked for the same, with no luck. Please post anything you come across. I'd love a place to cluster photos, blog posts, videos etc.

nikoherzeg zei

Angus, first of all..nice to meet you

Right now I did find was Nokia lifeblog. I do not get the impression that it was/is a great success. Furthermore it was limited to a cell phone. It does not have( I believe) the intimacy, deep rooted sense memories of a book..

check out http://www.christianlindholm.com/ for some cool stuff in this field

Anoniem zei

Hopefully someone will create something soon. Great link though, thanks!