{"id":3240,"date":"2017-08-31T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2017-08-31T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:54:33","slug":"shoulds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"Shoulds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/36756032766\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"cheerleader\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4376\/36756032766_f227cc55b2_n.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" alt=\"cheerleader\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nA factoid that got me thinking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUpwards of <a href=\"http:\/\/mylio.com\/true-stories\/tech-today\/how-many-digital-photos-will-be-taken-2017-repost\">a trillion photographs<\/a> will be taken in 2017, the vast majority on mobile phones (only about 10% [still 100 billion] with digital cameras); and something like 4.7 trillion photos will be &#8220;stored&#8221; by the end of 2017. Around 50 million are uploaded to Flickr (120 million &#8220;users&#8221;, many inactive) each month.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If a trillion photos are taken each year, how are we to think about the hundreds or thousands <i>we<\/i> might take? If the world has 7.5 billion people, how shall we think about being just one?<\/p>\n<p>\nThose questions provoked this note-to-self, scribbled just before the lights went out last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strive for consistency and principled engagement, and to build things that express the qualities you respect and admire. Fashion a legacy, by working to be clear about what you&#8217;re doing. Presence, engagement, candor; shun the ignoble and the invidious. Don&#8217;t succumb to pride. Practise humility and honor, don&#8217;t waste time or energy. Make things. Engage with people. Serve.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sort of a tall order, but most of it seems entirely relevant to photography and to writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A factoid that got me thinking: Upwards of a trillion photographs will be taken in 2017, the vast majority on mobile phones (only about 10% [still 100 billion] with digital cameras); and something like 4.7 trillion photos will be &#8220;stored&#8221; by the end of 2017. Around 50 million are uploaded to Flickr (120 million &#8220;users&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desiderata","category-making","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}